Can I Have My Baby Tooth Extracted to Make Room for My Permanent Tooth?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
I am in ninth grade, and one of my baby teeth hasn’t fallen yet, and I have visited different dentists, and they recommend I get the baby tooth removed in order to let the permanent tooth behind the baby tooth come forward. If I get my baby tooth removed and the permanent tooth doesn’t come forward, the dentist told me to get braces.
Recently the baby tooth is loosening a little bit, and I am afraid that if it breaks, I might have to get braces.
Is it permissible to get the milk tooth removed and get braces?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are well.
It is absolutely fine for you to get rid of your baby tooth to make way for the permanent one and also to get braces done if need be.
Scholars have given permission to use braces due to need, such as setting right a defect, or straightening crooked and unaligned teeth, as might be the case with yours after removal.
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I pray this helps with your question.
Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
