Fused teeth in 2yr old?

My little girl is 2 and we went to the dentist to be told that her lower right incisor is fused with the adjacent tooth. I went to the dentist because I felt there was no space for the bottom right. Instead it would appear that the two teeth had fused.


Has anyone been through this and what are the chances that her permanent teeth might be ok, i.e. she will have not have a single big fused tooth instead of 2 separate ones.





Does anyone have any information/experience of this? I would love to here from you.

Fused teeth in 2yr old?
Yes, my son%26#039;s top front and the one next to it of his adult teeth were fused together into one huge front tooth, which looked terrible. To cut a long story short, he had it taken out, and luckily had an extra tooth growing on the other side of the joined one, which a very clever orthodontist has used a brace to move along so that the spare tooth is now his other front tooth in the gap where the fused one was. It has taken three years of braces and is nowhere near finished yet. But looks fine now.


The orthodontist and all the other people he consulted had never come across anything like it before - he was quite famous among them! He still has to have an operation to stop the muscle trying to move the replacement tooth back to where it came from.


The good news is, his baby teeth didn%26#039;t have this problem, so I would assume that your daughter%26#039;s teeth will be separate when the adult ones grow.


Good luck! :-)
Reply:woah i never heard of that happening before!
Reply:Sometimes this can be genetic and can happen in the permanent teeth also. Sometimes it is a freak thing that will not happen again. And, sometimes it is due to an illness (fever) or drug taken while you were pregnant that may have caused disruption in the tooth cells and caused this and would not show up in the permanent teeth. No telling, unless this runs in your family.
Reply:This is a fairly common genetic problem it happens with incisors . I%26#039;ve been a dental nurse for 20 years and have seen about 10 cases. None of them went on to have problems with their adult teeth. Even if her adult teeth are fused as it%26#039;s lower teeth it won%26#039;t be noticable - so don%26#039;t worry! Just keep her teeth clean and I%26#039;m sure she will go on to have a healthy beautiful smile!
Reply:My daughter is 7 and her 2 front teeth on the top were fused together. It looked like a huge permanent tooth in the middle of her mouth. we finally had to pull it just about 3 months ago, because it had two root stems and one side was loose and the other not so much. They told us it was very unlikely that her permanent teeth would not be fused. Well, we went to the dentist and they took x-ray of her mouth and her new ones will be fused also. Except instead of one tooth and 2 roots its 2 teeth with one root (looks like un upside down heart). Needless to say, you wont know about her permanent teeth until she%26#039;s old enough to loose the baby ones. I sympathize with you though. At first I was shocked and scared people would make fun of her, but in all her years only 2 people have actually said something negative to her about it. That doesn%26#039;t stop her from telling everyone she knows about it. it%26#039;s unique and she should be proud of it. And when it comes time that her permanent teeth are fused, do what I do... see every dentist, orthodontist, periodontist etc. and decide what is best for her. Good luck.



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