How to correct supernumerary teeth?

Supernumerary teeth have a certain impact on the healthy development of children, mainly affecting the healthy development of the oral cavity, causing oral deformities or severe and frequent oral diseases, which is detrimental to health in the long run. Therefore, if symptoms of supernumerary teeth appear, it is best to correct them. However, the shape of supernumerary teeth is often very complex, which brings certain difficulties to correction. Let’s take a look at how to correct supernumerary teeth.

If you want to know what to do about supernumerary teeth, you must first understand where supernumerary teeth grow and what harm they cause.

Supernumerary teeth vary in shape and size and can grow anywhere in the alveolar bone of the mouth, but are most common in the upper jaw of children. Parents often find that their children have a thin, round and long tooth growing between their two front teeth, which looks like a pointed date pit. This is called the central tooth, which is the most common type of supernumerary teeth. Behind the third molar (a permanent tooth), a small molar often grows. Doctors call it the fourth molar, which is also a type of supernumerary teeth. There is another type called accessory molars, which are sandwiched between the upper molars.

If the supernumerary teeth are in the dental arch, they will occupy the position of the permanent teeth. If they grow out after the permanent teeth have erupted, they will be outside the dental arch, forming a double layer of teeth. Some supernumerary teeth do not erupt but lie buried in the skull, secretly compressing the adjacent tooth roots, affecting the growth and development of the adjacent teeth, causing uneven teeth arrangement and affecting the beauty of the oral cavity.

Supernumerary teeth usually grow out when children are changing their teeth, and their growth often prevents the permanent teeth from erupting smoothly. Even if they manage to erupt, they are not arranged neatly and are crowded, which can easily hide food debris and create conditions for the occurrence of caries and tooth inflammation. In addition, it is common to have twins, and their shapes can be exactly the same. According to statistics, about 4 to 10 children out of 1,000 have supernumerary teeth. Among children with deformities such as cleft flexion, the incidence of supernumerary teeth can be as high as 37%.

How to correct supernumerary teeth? Since supernumerary teeth can affect the arrangement of teeth, affect daily oral hygiene and cause tooth decay, and also cause the face to become larger and fatter, it is recommended that you extract the supernumerary teeth as soon as possible.