So here is an interesting story.......a year ago my two year old was walking behind me with her binky in her mouth. It was past her bed time, she was very tired. We all know how little ones get when they are tired.....CLUMSY!!! She fell and just started crying like I had never heard her cry. Blood just started gushing from her mouth. Of course she would not let us look at it to see the extent of the damage. We assumed that she had cut her lip.
The next day I put her down for a nap, when she awoke she had blood around her binky I knew I needed to see what was going on in there. So I tricked her with a flash light and some silly game to look in her mouth. To my absolute horror one of her front teeth appeared to be missing. I FREAKED !!! I called the dentist I didn't know what to think. Our dentist in town wouldn't even try to look at her. He simply gave us numbers of pediatric dentists in our general area.
Apparently they are very hard to get into, but I am very persuasive when it comes to my children. We went to the pediatric dentist which was horrible in itself. He made me hold her on my lap facing me and lay her backwards into his lap. She was terrified not only was a stranger holding her down but she just had a trama to her mouth the day before. He brushed a little on the teeth around the "missing one" He said he thought he saw a little pus where the tooth had been but when he tried to wipe it away. Low and behold it was her tooth. It had been pushed up inside her gums. I cried. I couldn't imagine the pain that was involved in that. He told us that it was very common , but normally when it happened it was both front teeth not just one. So the course of action was motrin for pain and an antibiotic so that it didn't get infected. He said that it would either come back down on its own or it would need to be removed. Thankfully a year later and a couple appts later it has come back down to almost its original position. Can you believe that??? I didn't even know that was possible. He said when she is 3 or so he might do xrays to check on the adult tooth above the injured one to see if there was any damage to it. Kids are certainly resilient.
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