Talk:Teething

misc
Wikipedia is not qualified to give medical advice. Maybe someone else can find a way to put this advice back into the article without 1) endorsing a particular product (which would violate our NPOV rule) or 2) giving explicit unlicensed medical advice. I've pulled the paragraph for now. Rossami "A product, know as Zilactin (r) Baby can be applied to a gauze pad and used on the infant's gums. The active ingredient in the product, benzocaine (10%) is said to relieve pain and provide a cooling sensation. Problems can occur in babies that show no teeth after the age of 12 months; a pediatrician is usually called in in these cases."

If is this over the counter, and according to the label, does it count as medical advice? Is that a lawyer or a doctor who wrote that above, or is it just fear of getting sued? Will any doctor who comes on this site put quotes around it and sign his name to it? Can we just type the label, verbatim, or some other site, verbatim on here, and thus transfer the blame to them? ~mrcolj 2004

scary image?
is there any way a less frightening picture of a toothless infant's mouth could be used? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.221.152.45 (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

special chemicals?
The article mentions "special chemicals" that are released to allow for the teeth to break through, seems kind of ambiguous for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.41.156 (talk) 10:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

age
What is the average age for teething? Saying the upper and lower limits doesn't do much for me to tell whether or not my kid is teething. ~ mrcolj

excessive or more slobber than since birth is a common one.
 * uh like the symptoms/signs are given did you read the entire article

Is this is stub / in need of expansion?
I got here from Dog. At some point mention needs to be made of teething regarding animals. --Rob 01:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Teenage and adult teething?
Is it considered teething when the later molars and then the wisdom teeth come in?... Blackcats 07:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Fluoridation section
Should the fluoridation section be in there at all? It's somewhat POV, has little to do with teething, and makes no reference to the already extant article on fluoridation and the associated controversies.


 * see also Water fluoridation controversy. Probably the section should be replaced with a brief reference to these articles. --Matt McIrvin 03:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

We use filtered spring water to mix up formula, if it has any natural fluoride it is not the product of industrial processes. How many ions of fluoride/ fluorine are there?
 * This is posted on the topic because of the connection to disrupt the timing of teeth eruption,and thus teething onset and the lenghth of time it takes to get cavities as a result, seems obvious for such and article; is there any other substances that can change the growth patterns of human infants? which I did not directly see mention in the supposly exaustive floride controversy artical, if it is there. As a new parent this is EXTREMELY important to me. My young en has no teeth why use flouride laced Nursery water? It it sitting right on the shelf in the baby section of most stores with no instructions or guidlines for use.
 * I am so "deranged" I have now expanded the rant to include pleanty to worry or be ignor-ant of; it is all "gennerally recognised as safe" just pray over your food and or vioxxx/lead paint/ortho patch/agent orange . ..

Incomplete
This article has information exclusively about the emergence of milk, or deciduous teeth. Conspicuous by its absence is any information about the emergence of permanent teeth. There is not even a link.

Ironically, I was led to this article by a link from another article, referencing abnormal third dentition. The more surprising to find nothing even about the normal process of deciduous tooth replacement, let alone unusual cases.

I have made some makeshift repairs in the form of wikilinks to relevant articles, such as Tooth eruption and Permanent teeth, but the subject in general is badly disorganized, and I am not qualified to address this. Is there a dentist in the house? Freederick (talk) 01:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I think that this is more or less in line with the main meaning of the word "teething" in ordinary non-specialist use. The growing in of permanent teeth is covered more at article Deciduous teeth... AnonMoos (talk) 07:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

In animals
Animals go through teething as well. I think it would be a good addition to the article if information on the process in animals was added. 90.200.150.240 (talk) 18:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Amber necklace pseudoscience
• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 05:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * https://scienceornot.net/2012/10/30/amber-necklaces-and-teething-babies/
 * http://www.kwch.com/content/news/?article=412558473

Contradiction
The following two sentences contradict each other.

Teething may cause signs and symptoms in the mouth and gums, but does not cause problems elsewhere in the body.[8]

Pulling on the ears is another sign of pain; the pain in the mouth throbs throughout the baby's head so they pull their ears believing that it will provide relief

As well may be worth stating that anecdotal reports link nappy rash, colic and other symptoms to teething kersti (talk) 09:17, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Dr. Clay Jones' critique
Dr. Clay Jones, a practicing paediatrician, has recently raised concern over potential errors and inappropriate health advice in this article. Please, see this link for more information:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/from-the-vault-infant-teething-myths-and-misconceptions/ AufbauPrinciple (talk) 12:19, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Please could you raise this at WT:MED? Bon courage (talk) 13:12, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Certainly! Sorry, I wasn't sure where to raise this potential issue. AufbauPrinciple (talk) 16:24, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Here is good, there is better. I'd do it myself but I didn't want to steal your thunder (so to speak)! Bon courage (talk) 16:27, 28 December 2023 (UTC)