Sunday, March 8, 2009

Tooth rearrangment

Friday evening, the back of Connor's head rearranged Jared's front teeth in a freak bounce house accident. Jared's left front tooth overlaps his right one fairly significantly, but after contact was made with the back of Connor's head, the tooth was pushed back BEHIND the tooth it normally overlaps. It wasn't a pretty sight, and Jared was understandably upset and hurting. I was able to pull the tooth forward again while we were waiting for Em's friend to get picked up (called the playdate to an end a half hour early so we could get to Prompt Care), and canceled Jared's playdate with the neighbor boy that was scheduled for any minute at that point. The doctor checked for fractures to the mandible, and checked for damage to the gumline and teeth, and said that everything looked good. Both front teeth were pretty darn wiggly (not to the point of being dangly, but definately LOOSE) so Jared's on a soft food diet for two days, at which point I'm to gently check his teeth. He can't use them for biting until they've firmed up again, but I can't check them too frequently or they won't firm up! We'll test them later today. Once I pulled the one tooth forward into it's original posistion, he relaxed and calmed down again because the pressue on the teeth was gone. He never did require any pain management. TOUGH KID!! There's a risk that the tooth (or both teeth) could die, but the doctor said that everything look really good and nothing was very swollen and the bleeding hadn't been very bad, so he was pretty confident they'd be fine. I HOPE SO!!! I guess we'll see

3 comments:

Betsy Hart said...

I hope so too!! How scarey for him.

Anonymous said...

Oh my goodness the poor kiddo! He sounds like a trooper though. Hope they tighten back up and you don't have any further issues with them.

Cindy Lou Who said...

Oh poor baby!