A child is born without teeth, although their rudiments form in the thickness of the jaws as early as 6-8 weeks of gestation. The first milk teeth appear in a baby at 5-8 months.. As a rule, these are the middle lower incisors.. Next, 4 upper incisors erupt, and then two more lower lateral incisors. By one year, a child should have approximately 8 teeth.. Further, up to 2 years, the process of the appearance of teeth does not stop: the front small molars appear at 12-18 months; fangs - upper at 16-20, lower - at 17-22; rear small molars (second molars) at 20-24 months. Total milk teeth 20.

All of them appear in a child by 2 years of age.. Approximately, the proper number of milk teeth in a child can be determined by the formula Z \u003d n-20, where n is the number of months of life. It is not uncommon for teeth to erupt earlier or later than expected.. Sometimes 1-2 teeth are found in newborns. As a rule, they are defective and fall out quickly or have to be removed so that they do not interfere with suckling.. It happens that the teeth appear later than the prescribed 8 months.

This may be a symptom of rickets or a consequence of an eating disorder.. But the delay in the appearance of teeth does not always indicate a disease: such a situation may be a manifestation of the individual characteristics of the child's body, associated with heredity, nutrition and the state of health of the mother during pregnancy.. Teeth appear later in premature babies. You need to worry only if there are no teeth at all for up to a year.

Around the age of 5, a child's first permanent tooth appears - the first molar.. The change of milk teeth to permanent ones begins about 5-6 years and occurs in approximately the same order in which the teeth erupted.. From the loss of a milk tooth to the appearance of a permanent one in its place, it usually takes 3-4 months..

The change of milk teeth is completed by 10-12 years. Second molars appear at age 12. And the third large molars (third molars), popularly called " There are 32 permanent teeth in total.. Teething is essentially a physiological process.. Ideally, it should be painless for the child..

However, in practice, teething is very often accompanied by redness, swelling and itching of the gums, irritability of the child, decreased appetite, mild stool upset and even fever..

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