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. 2023 Oct 25;10(11):1730.
doi: 10.3390/children10111730.

Timing of Primary Tooth Eruption in Infants Observed by Their Parents

Mina Dodo  1 , Chiharu Ota  2   3   4 , Motohiro Ishikawa  1 , Ichie Koseki  1 , Junichi Sugawara  4   5 , Nozomi Tatsuta  2   4 , Takahiro Arima  4   5 , Nobuo Yaegashi  4   5 , Takeyoshi Koseki  1
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Timing of Primary Tooth Eruption in Infants Observed by Their Parents

Mina Dodo et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: The timing of primary teeth eruption is a visible indicator of infant physical growth other than body weight or height. It also reflects neurological integrity and development as well as nutrition, socioeconomic state, or underlying diseases. Therefore, the timing of primary teeth eruption is one of the major concerns for parents in health checkups for infants and children. However, the detailed developmental timing of teeth eruption differs depending on the survey methodology, country, or generation. We hypothesized that the timing of primary teeth eruption differs between the medical checkup by dentists and the daily records by parents.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey on the date of eruption of primary teeth as an adjunct study among Miyagi Regional Center participants in the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS), a large-scale birth cohort study. A total of 1695 responses (3793 participants) were analyzed.

Results: The median ages of eruption were 7.1 months (male) and 7.6 months (female) for mandibular primary central incisors, 8.7 months (male) and 9.2 months (female) for maxillary primary central incisors, 10.0 months (male) and 10.3 months (female) for maxillary primary lateral incisors, and 10.4 months (male) and 10.8 months (female) for mandibular primary lateral incisors, which were earlier than the reported timings based on dental check-ups. Comparing the eruption time of preterm and term infants, the eruption time was earlier in preterm infants in the corrected ages.

Conclusions: The eruption timing observed and described by the parents is earlier than that examined by dentists at regular check-ups. In addition to examining the primary teeth eruption of full-term birth children, we also examined that of preterm birth children because of the increasing number of premature births. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report from a large cohort study to clarify the eruption time of primary teeth monitored by parents.

Keywords: child development; cohort studies; tooth eruption.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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A diagram of the dentition in the questionnaire.
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Flow diagram of this adjunct study of the JECS in the Miyagi Regional Center.
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Figure 3
Timing of primary teeth eruption in (A) males and (B) females from birth (chronological age).
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