Dominic had his first cleaning last week. He did very well and received a clean bill of health. His bottom tooth is loose (which we knew) but he doesn't work on it much so it will be there for a while longer. He does have a long frenulum (the piece of tissue between your upper lip and gum). This may cause him issues with his adult teeth in the future. So we will keep an eye on it and it may need to be sniped later on. Ironically I have since read this long frenulum could be a contributing factor to poor breast feeding - which Dominic had.
Luke let the dentist look in his mouth too because we believed he was missing a baby tooth on the bottom. After looking at it, she thinks the 2 teeth are actually fused together (instead of one missing) because the tooth is 2X larger than it should be and compared to the one next to it. This is good news because we are keeping our fingers and toes crossed that Luke will also have all his permnament teeth.
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Brynn has that same issue. Her Pediatrician at her very first visit told us about it. He said that as infants they use to clip them almost always, but he said now they generally do not. Brynn was able to bottle feed perfectly, but I have heard that breast feeding with this issue can be HUGE! I actually have seen a couple baby shows with mommy's trying to breast feed & they were having issues. So, they hired a lactation consultant. They immediately recognized the issue. In these two cases they clipped them, & nursing immediately became an instant success. Since nursing wasn't an option for us, we never had a reason to explore getting Brynn's clipped. Our Ped. also told us to watch once she started taking solids for issues, but she's had none there. Then of course when she begins to speak to watch for speech issues that can often be a result of this issue. So far, for Brynn it hasn't caused a single issue, but we are glad to be aware of it so that we can watch for anything that might rise as a result of this.
Glad that he got a good report at the dentist!
Jen
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