Rockford area Pediatric Dentist has put together information on your child's first teeth. While all these symptoms tend to crop up in the few days before and after a tooth's emergence from the gums, the process of developing teeth starts much earlier. Rockford Pediatric Dentistry will answer all your teething questions.

2. 
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3. While all these symptoms
tend to crop up in the few
days before and after a
tooth's emergence from
the gums, the process of
developing teeth starts
much earlier.

4.  Around
the second
trimester of pregnancy,
tooth buds begin to
form under the gums in
your baby's mouth.

5. Eventually, the roots
begin to grow, forcing
the crown up. "The
tooth puts pressure on
the tissues above it, and
they slowly begin to
break down,”

6. "The tissue gets thinner
and thinner until it
breaks and the tooth
pops through."

7.  The
first teeth to pop up
are usually the two
bottom front teeth
(central incisors),

8.  followed
by the four
upper teeth (central and
lateral incisors). Because
these are thinner with a
knifelike edge, they
often slide through
fairly easily.

9.  But
that's just the calm
before the storm: Around
baby's first birthday, the
first molars will start to
arrive in the back of the
mouth;

10. then come the canines
(the pointed teeth
between the molars and
incisors); and then
around age 2, the
second molars, behind
the first set.

11. "The molars are often
much more painful
because they are a big,
fat, broad-surfaced
tooth. Those are the
ones where you tend to
see bulging gums.

12. In some cases, fluid can
build up, creating a bluish
cyst over the unerupted
molar. When the tooth
breaks through and pops
the cyst, your baby may
wind up

13. with a mouthful of blood,
but it looks a lot worse
than it is. "Once the sac
erupts and the fluid
comes out, it's over. The
situation has corrected
itself."

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Ages 1-18
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