According to Dr. A. Brothers: 1. Dentition is rarely, if ever, a direct cause of death.
2. Precocious or retarded dentition may occur in otherwise healthy children or in entire families.
3. The period of eruption of the first teeth occurs, in healthy, breast-fed children, at six and a half months in the vast majority of cases, and first dentition is usually complete at thirty months.
4. Dentition is distinctly retarded in the first as well as the later teeth in children brought up on a mixed or artificial diet.
5. Congenital diseases - tuberculosis, syphilis, endocarditis - seem to have a retarding influence on dentition.
6. Rachitis has a very pronounced retarding influence on the whole course of dentition.
7. Scrofulosis seems to hasten the eruption of the first teeth, but does not affect the later teeth.
8. In cases of undeveloped brain - idiocy - there is a marked retardation during the entire period of dentition.
9. Chronic diseases have a retarding power over the first teeth, but do not seem to influence the later teeth.
10. Children suffering from marasmus seem to be precocious with the first teeth, but delayed with the later teeth.
11. Cases of epilepsy, developing in early infancy, seem to have their first teeth appear early.
Very interesting, if only serving to prolong the confusion. Either way, poor little guy.