Editing Teething (section)

{{Short description|Infants gaining their first teeth}}
{{see Wiktionary|redirect=Teething troubles||teething troubles}}
[[File:Teething.jpg|thumb|A 9-month-old infant with a right lower central incisor about to emerge]]
[[File:Teething 2.jpg|thumb|A 9-month-old infant with a visible right lower central incisor]]
'''Teething''' is the process by which an [[infant]]'s first teeth (the [[deciduous teeth]], often called "baby teeth" or "milk teeth") appear by emerging through the gums, typically arriving in pairs.  The mandibular central incisors are the first primary teeth to erupt, usually between 6 and 10 months of age and usually causes discomfort and pain to the infant. <ref>{{cite journal|title=A review of the chronology of eruption of deciduous teeth|journal=[[The Journal of the American Dental Association]]|date=October 1974|doi=10.14219/jada.archive.1974.0484|pmid=4609369 |volume=89|issue=4 |pages=872–879|author=Lunt Roger C., Law David B.}}</ref> It can take several years for all 20 teeth to complete the [[tooth eruption]].  Though the process of teething is sometimes referred to as "cutting teeth", when teeth emerge through the gums they do not cut through the flesh. Instead, [[hormones]] are released within the body that cause some cells in the gums to die and separate, allowing the teeth to come through.<ref>[http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/teething/Pages/Introduction.aspx "Teething"]. [[National Health Service (England)|National Health Service of England]]</ref>

Teething may cause a slightly elevated temperature, but not rising into the [[fever]] range of greater than {{convert|38.0|C|F|sigfig=3}}.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Signs and Symptoms of Primary Tooth Eruption: A Meta-analysis|journal=Pediatrics|date=March 2016|doi=10.1542/peds.2015-3501|url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/02/16/peds.2015-3501|last1=Massignan|first1=Carla|last2=Cardoso|first2=Mariane|last3=Porporatti|first3=André Luís|last4=Aydinoz|first4=Secil|last5=Canto|first5=Graziela De Luca|last6=Mezzomo|first6=Luis Andre Mendonça|last7=Bolan|first7=Michele|volume=137|issue=3|pages=e20153501|pmid=26908659|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Higher temperatures during teething are due to some form of infection, such as a herpes virus, initial infection of which is extremely widespread among children of teething age.<ref name="autogenerated234">{{cite journal | title = Fever associated with teething |author1=L Jaber |author2=I J Cohen |author3=A Mor | journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood | year = 1992 | pages = 234 | doi = 10.1136/adc.67.2.233 |pmid=1543387 | volume=67|issue=2 |pmc=1793425 }}</ref>