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Originally Posted by glatt
fascinating. Makes you wonder what the adult teeth look like as they are forming in the jaw. Do they grow, or do they start out at the full size but go from being indistinct to being really distinctive, like a Star Trek transporter person materializing.
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I guess your kids' dentist didn't do regular x-rays and show them to you... The ones in my son's mouth started out invisible, then the next time we saw them they were high up, indistinct, and maybe 3/4 size, now they are lower, full-size, and more distinct, but not yet as opaque as his emerged teeth.
Except the two that are missing. His next x-ray in May will show whether those two teeth were just delayed behind the others, or if they're not going to form at all. The dentist said it happens in about 5% of the population, and his jaw doesn't seem to have any natural crowding, so we'll probably want to get a bridge put in or else his other teeth will spread out and he'll have a gap between every tooth.