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My son is 19 months old today he is growing teeth that i never knew to expect and his palate is growing apart. Can anyone give me advice? What do I do when Tylenol wont take away the pain? Did anyone have x-rays done to see where the teeth will grow? Jacobs first dentist appt is in December do they x-ray 2 year olds?

Britany,
I don't have any answers for you since my cleft baby (granddaughter we are raising) is only 9 months old and only has 5 teeth. She also hasn't had her hard palate repaired yet.

But I did want to say that I see you are from Durham, NC. I am from western NC myself. May I ask which hospital & cleft team you are using? We are going to Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest University.

I'm not sure if you're interested or not but there is a local support network message board for those in the Raleigh-Durham area. I frequent the board even though I'm not from that area but from NC. The reason I mentioned it is you might meet some families local to you for you & your son to spend time with.

Here's a link to it:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/triface2face/

I will be interested in hearing what the others say. And I wish the two of you well.

Britany, I would get in touch with your cleft team as soon as possible. I'm sure that they could get you in before December with all of the concerns you have. Maybe until then you could try using Motrin instead of Tylenol. Sometimes it helps more because of the anti-inflammatory. Good Luck!