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Teen with Impacted Canine Tooth

Posted: Mar 27, 2012

We just found out yesterday that my 15-year-old son who has perfectly straight teeth, still has his left canine baby tooth and an impacted adult tooth above it. I wasn't given much information other than he probably needs braces. I've researched it on Google and it sounds horrible. Braces, bracketing, putting a gold chain on the impacted tooth to pull it down, surgeries, several years of treatment. Has anyone had anything like this at all happen? It sounds simpler to have it excised and get a bridge or an implant. My son hates the thought of braces alone and I haven't even told him about all this stuff yet as we just found out yesterday. Any/all info would be helpful. Thanks so much and God Bless.

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A bridge would be unsightly and - sm

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An implant would be worse! Both of those options would result in a lifetime of maintenance to the appliance, too.

Orthodontic solutions sound a lot better, frankly. Not wanting to sound critical, but you should have been keeping track of his baby teeth . . . which ones came out and which did not. And, if they just discovered this now, does that mean this is your son's first dental exam since he got his permanent teeth???

We don't.. - sm

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go regularly like we should, and we've been lucky he's only had 1 filling when he was little. His other canine came out about 2 years ago, which is the last time we had an exam. Nothing was mentioned at that time and I didn't realize he hadn't lost the other one. His oral health is fine other than this impacted tooth, but it is a really big deal from what I have read last night and today and the dentist spent about 2 minutes with me just saying he needed braces. Will definitely get ortho and explore all options; was just looking for some help from someone who may have had a similar experience.

My friend's daughter had the same thing - countryMT

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She had the baby tooth removed, then using braces, they pulled the permanent tooth down into place and adjusted all the other teeth in line. It all took a couple of years though, then the braces had to stay on for the bone to re-grow and set everything into place. All 3 of my kids had braces and 2 had expanders, so I'm very familiar with the braces route.

I would say go with braces - Angie

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I haven't had the same issue, I had an overbite and my daughter has braces now for a cross bite, but no impaction. The braces are expensive, but in my situation, we gave them our acct number and they take it out monthly and not that outrageous amount either. So sorry for him, hope it works out.

Thanks so much - ladies. sm

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It sounds more and more like that is truly the only option. Gonna be tough to convince my 15-year-old stubbon son with straight teeth, but I think when I show him a diagram I found, he will get better as time goes on. Don't blame him; I wouldn't want to have it done either. What stinks is, we have no in-network orthodontists anywhere around us, so gonna be an even bigger chunk of $$. Thanks for your help and concern. I truly appreciate it :D

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