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What do I watch for when a baby tooth has had trauma and knocked loose?


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Post On: 2008-11-02 06:06:12

 What do I watch for when a baby tooth has had trauma and knocked loose?
User: Wilma Duckie Deene
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My 7 assemblage old fell and knocked her agency lax (the digit on top, correct next to crowning digit face - I don't undergo the study of the tooth) - it was just lax before she fell, today it is very lax (like hanging on - fallen downbound a bit, but not so lax that it will fall out) and sore. We have place ice on it, given her motrin, titled the dentist (it was an on call doc - her lawful dentist is out of town - and this guy was a jerk), we were told to check for infection, give her soft food and call on weekday for lawful dentist. My discourse is - will there be some clew of incident in her mouth, or just her not feeling well and a fever? The gum is bruised, is there a problem from that? As I said, I will call our lawful doc on weekday - but wanted to undergo in the meantime if there is something else I should be doing. Thanks in advance. No, she's lost several teeth - the crowning face digit have been absent for 6 months today - she looks like she has fun fangs or something - this digit was just lax when she hit it - maybe moved a little taste when wiggled - today it is rattling loose, and her gums are sore.
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 Post On: 2008-11-02 06:21:41
User: Lillian S. Phx Arizona
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Over time a agency that has trauma module yellow or have mobility, good abstract is that its a child agency and they module start discover soon. might want to intend her to the Dr to check in an x-ray how far behind the permant set are from coming in. the another abstract that crapper be an indication that it was inevitable was if the agency does become discover and there are no roots attached. i'm trusty that this isnt her first agency to become out, if it's not? do these set look like the rest when they start out? good luck
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 Post On: 2008-11-02 07:33:47
User: Cholla Cacti are not nice
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If it's a baby tooth there's null you requirement to do until the dentist can wager it on Monday. If it's a permanant tooth (doubt it at her age) then is should be seen within a few hours of the injury. A bruised gum is not anything to worry most either. It will be painful for her and she should follow to soft matter at shack worker for comfort then hit her rinse her mouth with water after eating anything to ready it as clean as possible. If an infection develops, and I doubt it will, you are right, you would know by a fever and maybe some severe swelling of the site. Some swelling haw be normal depending on where her gums were hit. The dentist haw end up pulling it for her on weekday if it's too loose to take ordinarily but not loose enough to fall discover on it's own.
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 Post On: 2008-11-02 08:43:43
User: BPD Wife
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This actually happened to my son when he was a baby. He fell and hit his teeth and made one lax (he was exclusive about a assemblage old). We were told by the dentist to keep an eye on it and if it changed colours or started to look "infected" (i.e. puss, swelling that didn't subside after a some days, Brobdingnagian pain, etc.), then to come back to have it pulled. The dentist told us that as long as it wasn't lax sufficiency to start out, it would belike "reset" itself, which it did thankfully. Within a some life it was not lax anymore. Granted, he was a baby, but you should belike be dustlike until Monday when you crapper wager the dentist. If it changes color or hurts her too much, I would definitely call the on-call dentist again or go to the ER, but it sounds same you'll be dustlike until Monday. Good luck.
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