Cyst on the gum?

Jessgran

Hi Ladies,

I posted this on 0-3 but wanted to see if any of you have experienced this as well... 

My 2-month old has a white, hard spot on his gum. It's on the side of the gum, near the top. It feels like a tooth to me, however, the on-call pedi said it's a cyst that is commonly seen in newborns, it is painless, and will go away on it's own. Has anyone ever experienced this? He was extremely fussy and trying to sleep before I discovered this, and when I began rubbing his gum with my finger he fell fast asleep.

My question is - could it actually be a tooth and I'm just not being clear enough to the pedi? Maybe the fussiness was just a fluke before I discovered it?

Have you ever heard of a baby having a cyst in his mouth?

I'm going to keep an eye on it and call my regular pedi to follow up, but I just wanted to see if anyone has ever experienced something like this. Thank you!

aegrimm

Lily has one. It's small though and just has a round white head...almost like the size of a pimple.

I thought it was a tooth, too, but it's in a weird place. It's actually gotten smaller over the last few weeks.

Jessgran

aegrimm:

Lily has one. It's small though and just has a round white head...almost like the size of a pimple.

I thought it was a tooth, too, but it's in a weird place. It's actually gotten smaller over the last few weeks.

Did it feel hard to you? Or more like a pimple? So wierd...

aegrimm

Jessgran:

aegrimm:

Lily has one. It's small though and just has a round white head...almost like the size of a pimple.

I thought it was a tooth, too, but it's in a weird place. It's actually gotten smaller over the last few weeks.

Did it feel hard to you? Or more like a pimple? So wierd...

It feels hard, but not sharp. I'm not sure if you have any other kids or if you've ever felt a "fresh" tooth (well, except for your own when you were a kid) but a tooth feels sharp when it comes through. It's not just hard, it definitely feels like there is something poking through the gums.

The cyst just feels like, well, a cyst. A hard little rounded bump. HTH!

susanlovestexas

My first DD had 2 of those on her gums when she was a newborn.  They went away on their own.  Never caused her any pain or problems.  They were just hard pimple looking bumps, like aegrimm said.

daisy_dueller

susanlovestexas:

My first DD had 2 of those on her gums when she was a newborn.  They went away on their own.  Never caused her any pain or problems.  They were just hard pimple looking bumps, like aegrimm said.

Yup, us too!

Jessgran

Thanks ladies!

tbirt24

Sadie has 2 and the pedi was adamant on us not messing with it. He said leave it alone and it will go away

CTri17

Lucy has one as well, I looked it up before I talked to the pedi and figured out what it was.

Pedi confirmed it, eventually it will pop. There isn't anything wrong with having one.

If it is anything like Lucy's it is square on the middle of her gum, if it was a tooth it would be pointing straight out. 2 months is REALLY early to teethe.

Lucy is early and she is getting a tooth at 4 mo!

TMDMJAOCT07

As everybody else said, its very common. Usually, the first 2 teeth to come in are the bottom front, then the top 4, then back to the bottom 1 on each side of the front 2, its usually in patterns of 2, but not always.