Mutant Mouth

There's some weird stuff going around in our house lately!  Jackson can't seem to get his teeth to pop out - he's been trying to push his pre-molars through for well over a month.  One has finally popped out and I keep checking and waiting for the others to make an appearance. 

Now, Adam on the other hand has teeth coming out everywhere!  Scott was helping him brush his teeth last night and he suddently yelled for me to come into the bathroom.  He pointed into Adam's mouth - behind his bottom front baby teeth.  There poking out of the gums is his permanent tooth - growing in behind his baby teeth.  We could also see a whilt line bulging next to it where his second front permanent tooth will soon be poking through. We tried to wiggle those baby teeth to see if they were loose, but they didn't budge.

Here's the best picture I could get...

Needless to say, both Scott and I were a little freaked out about the whole thing - picturing all the dental bills needed to fix this crazy scenario.  I called the dentist this morning, and was reassured that this is nothing to worry about and that it's actually pretty common.  She mentioned that her youngest son had this same issue, and she has had to pull all of his baby teeth.  Hopefully, it doesn't come to that for Adam and he will loose those baby teeth on his own.  The dentist will check everything out at his next cleaning appointment in a couple of months and we'll figure out the next steps then.  My biggest concern was that with his teeth growing in behind, it would create an over-bite, but the dentist said that most of the time a kids tongue will push the teeth out to the correct position.  We'll just have to watch it as he grows.  I guess there's no happy meduim - either not enough teeth, or too many!