In children, the loss of milk teeth and their replacement with permanent ones occurs at about six or seven years. These terms may change slightly - depending on the characteristics of the child's body.
A little information from the field of anatomy will help to understand exactly how a child's teeth change. How the loss and growth of teeth will proceed depends mainly on the structure and some features of the dentition.
Teething
Children’s teeth begin to form even during the period of intrauterine development. But they will cut out when the child is six months old. At birth, only the rudiments of permanent teeth are formed in a child.
The state of health of milk teeth must be treated as carefully as possible - infection with caries can also damage the rudiments of permanent ones.
Milk teeth will fall out when permanent teeth begin to erupt. The processes of tooth loss and eruption may seem painful, but this is far from the case. During the preparation of the dentition for changing teeth, the milk roots begin to dissolve, so they loosen and begin to fall out. Permanent ones grow in their place. It usually starts with the lower incisors.
Looseness, loss of milk teeth and the growth of new ones occurs gradually over several years. The process of completely replacing teeth takes six to eight years. If we turn to the average indicators, the first tooth falls out at the age of seven, and by the age of fourteen, the child has almost no temporary teeth.
How milk teeth fall out
The eruption of permanent teeth and the loss of temporary teeth in terms of timing differ in children. The whole process goes like this. First, the child grows permanent molar teeth - these are the farthest teeth, which at first do not have enough space on the jaw, but as it grows, the teeth become larger.
Changing milk teeth follows the same pattern as eruption. First, the lower incisors loosen and fall out, after that the upper ones. At the age of ten, the first pair of premolars falls out, at the age of twelve, the second. At the age of thirteen, the last milk teeth - canines - fall out.
But that's not all - at the age of fourteen, the child grows second permanent molars, after eighteen - wisdom teeth, that is, third molars. But they do not grow in all people. The absence of these teeth is not considered a pathology.
In the process of replacing teeth, the child needs to be provided with quality nutrition. Getting all the necessary trace elements and vitamins allows teeth to form and grow healthy. If the milk tooth has not yet fallen out, and the permanent tooth has already begun to erupt, the interfering temporary tooth can be removed with the help of a dentist.
