[tri-med] Re: Missing baby tooth

Thanks Holly!
With my son's teeth, over crowed due to large teeth and small jaw, the
orthod looked over his xrays and decided to pull a tooth here or there to
allow the others to come in naturally and his teeth looked pretty good
without braces... ideally, that is what will be done with Claire, as you
mentioned, pull the adult teeth as needed to allow room for the other adult
teeth... and avoid braces.
I guess it is good that orthod's know *what they they can handle in the way
of dealing with special needs kids.  We always think it is about the money,
guess sometimes it isn't always.

Debbie, mom to Claire (T18)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Holly McCormick <hollyandms@xxxxxxx>wrote:

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> > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:58:17 -0400
> > From: debbwebb@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [tri-med] Re: Missing baby tooth
> > It also seems that only her back teeth touch, but front don't, making it
> > impossible if she wanted to bite into a food... my nephew has the same
> > problem and my sister said they need to break his jaw and realign it...
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> > is something I am not willing to consider, esp given that she isn't
> chewing
> > food... unless she isn't chewing because of her jaw alignment?
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> > Anyone else's child have only the back teeth touching?  Front teeth we
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> > stick our finger between without worry of losing it(finger).
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> Debbie,
> I guess you could say that Morgan's front teeth don't touch either.  He
> eats orally, mashed up food.  At one time we thought he might eat more
> chunks, but honestly, even if he did eat chunks he would not be able to bite
> a hunk off, like say an apple or corn on the cob.  Not because his teeth
> don't meet, but because he just wouldn't be able to do it.  He doesn't show
> any interest in biting pieces off like that.  The chunkier stuff he does eat
> we put the chunks on his molars and he chews them up.  I may be wrong, but I
> think most of the kids that eat even chunkier things still have their food
> cut into smaller to handle pieces that they can just pop into their mouths.
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> As far as braces go, Morgan has a very crowded mouth, too.  At first, our
> dentist and I agreed we would not even consider braces, but I have further
> considered it and do have the phone number to the University of Iowa where
> they would do work on a child with special needs.  Our dentist says no one
> in this area is equipped to handle kiddos like Morgan, as far as braces go.
>  At this point in time the bottom teeth are the only ones that are bad, in
> sideways like you said Claire's are.  His top teeth look pretty good.  Our
> dentist is recommending waiting until all his permanent teeth are in and
> then if the crowding is really bad they would just pull some teeth and let
> the others move into their places without doing braces.  This seems like a
> good option, but we are still considering everything.  At Claire's age they
> can't do much anyway, have to wait for permanent teeth to start coming in.
>  Good luck.
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> "You have no right to argue with your Creator. You are
> merely a clay pot shaped by a potter.
> The clay doesn't ask, 'Why did
> you make me this way?'" (Isaiah 45:9 CEV).
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> Holly ( Des Moines, IA) -- wife of Mike
> mom of Morgan (11 yrs. old) unbalanced translocation resulting in partial
> t18q and partial monosomy 9p
> dx'd with type 1 diabetes 03-17-08, enjoying the honeymoon--injecting
> levemir once daily
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