First, I want to thank you for writing this article it makes me understand more about natal tooth now!
Second, my baby is 11 month now and he has natal teeth two bottom ones from the beginning. One of the teeth looks like it has decay you can see red in the middle. I took him to dentist last month she say it looks chop off not decay. She want me to take him to see specialist but we don’t hv dental insurance. I don’t really want to extract them because they look hard and healthy and he start to chew with these already. So I would like to find out if teeth is chop off will that cause decay? I remember when he were younger these teeth feels softer and it did kind fall out little bit. Now it grows out and harder but looks chopped.
I’m glad it helped! Sometimes these teeth poke above the surface without being formed very well. If your dentist doesn’t believe that it looks decayed, then that’s a good sign. By “chop off” do you mean that it doesn’t look like the top of the tooth formed correctly? Usually there isn’t a problem with keeping natal teeth unless they’re very loose.
It would probably only cause decay if it is hard for you to brush it.
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