An eight year old boy from Wakefield has earned the nickname ‘Jaws’ from his friends after developing a second row of teeth as his baby teeth did not fall out when they were supposed to. Zak Brown suffers with a condition called ‘paediatric shark teeth’, where the milk teeth do not fall out before the adult teeth start to come through.
Zak’s mum, Claire, 38, said that she first thought her sons teeth looked ‘really odd’ when the permanent teeth started to come through behind the baby ones. Although it might look strange, Zak has no problems eating and he is not in pain, he did however complain to his mother that his siblings were making money from the tooth fairy, whereas he was getting nothing. ‘He was gutted’ Claire explains, ‘He would try and wiggle his teeth to make them come out. He’s got used to it now.’
Zak is now on the waiting list to have his baby teeth extracted so that he can start orthodontic treatment, although his mum said that ‘there is now a good two or three year wait to see the orthodontist. We have been told we can go private if we chose but I imagine that may cost a lot of money. It is something I’d like to sort out sooner rather than later.’