Can a tooth rise out of its socket if it doesn't have an opposing tooth?

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sjwaste

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Missing canine would be #6. #7 is actually a lateral incisor. :)
How is it that you are missing a canine? Hockey accident? :eek:

It's #7, and I now know its name, thanks :)

Internal resorption. No obvious trauma as the cause, but I had braces at the time and they had just been adjusted the day before. Had a root canal which wasn't entirely successful, but decided to just keep the tooth until it gave me any trouble. It ended up breaking some 10 years later, so it was definitely an ok call, they were pushing my parents to extract and get an implant ASAP at the time (I was 13). I don't entirely remember how, but I think I was eating. Definitely something mundane.

When my wife and I first met, I still had a hockey tooth (or as my friends called it, a business tooth because I had to look good for work). She was pretty underwhelmed with the story of how it happened.