Not the way to lose your baby teeth
Posted on February 16, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Family, Health, Kids.
Poor Oisín is terribly unlucky with his front teeth. When he was 2-ish he fell off a changing table and impacted one of his front teeth up into the bone and split the lip and gum. Nothing could be done except let it heal. That tooth was much shorter than the other one until yesterday. Then yesterday evening, he fell off a stool and did a repeat performance, this time knocking out his other tooth and making a mush of his upper lip again.
Once again, the advice from the doc was to do nothing and let it heal. He rang the dental hospital and they concurred particularly considering they are his baby teeth.
But we are worried about the full teeth and what the likelihood is that they’ll come down ok. Anyone else have kids where this happened? I’d hate for the poor mite to have to get implants at an early age. I know too many people with those already.
I hope he gets something nice in town with Catherine today. The tooth fairy gave him a tenner cos she felt so sorry for him.
14 Replies to "Not the way to lose your baby teeth"
conor on February 16, 2007
Ah shur I was really just trawling for horror stories anyway 
The Swearing Lady on February 16, 2007
My little niece fell headfirst onto a fire grate and knocked both her front teeth out when she was about ten months old. She looked awfully stupid til she was six, let me tell ya.
dermot on February 16, 2007
Two quick responses. Our 3 year old at age 2 seems to have done something similar to yours. He fell over and brought his mouth down on a wooden corner of a sofa, impacting his two front teeth. Incredibly painful. Brought to doctor & dentist who gave same advice. Do nothing. One of teeth seems perfect the other is discolored, caused by dead nerve endings. We’ve been told its nothing to worry about.
My brother also had serious problems with his milk teeth as a child, including discoloration, malformation and involved an operation at one point. His full adult teeth were perfect.
Dermot
conor on February 16, 2007
Well he’s 5 so he should be heading towards losing the others anyway and we won’t have long to wait to see if he is another Shane McGowan.
Podchef on February 16, 2007
My daughter Oona did a face plant off of a bicycle at around age 6 and loosened her front teeth. In a bid to cash in with the Tooth ferry she pulled one of them and came crying down the stair, blood gushing from the wound. She’d pulled an adult tooth!
Being on an island, miles away from anywhere we rang the dentist who said put the tooth in milk and hop in a boat. Meanwhile we were putting lifevests on the gang when the Dentist rang back–forget the milk, push the tooth back in the hole as hard as ye can and hop in a boat. So we set about torturing the cryin Oon, cramming the tooth back in. Meanwhile Orla, 3, toddling along the counters edge, saw a cup a milk and drank the bloody tooth milk.
Oona, now 10, still has her tooth. It’s a different height than her other front one. It didn’t die as the dentist predicted–his eyes glazed over with the chance of ready cash and a lifetime of fitting false teeth to a young girl. You never know how resilient kids are until they prove ye wrong.
conor on February 16, 2007
That’s interesting about putting the tooth back in. I think the dental hospital considered that route until they heard it was a milk tooth so they decided it wasn’t worth bothering.
Bloody tooth milk, yumm
Eoghan McCabe on February 17, 2007
Ah, the poor little chap! Hope he feels better soon.
conor on February 17, 2007
He still looks bad but doesn’t seem to have affected him at all. Apart from his new Power Ranger outfit.
Evert Bopp on February 19, 2007
Apart from his new Power Ranger outfit.
You sure he isn’t doing it on purpose?
E.
conor on February 19, 2007
I hadn’t thought of that. His basic problem is that he does everything at 120 miles per hour. He is incapable of walking anywhere, he has to run. I love the energy but it’s forever getting him in trouble.
JD on February 19, 2007
I hope Oisin has filled in all the relevant tax forms in his declarations for year-end (www.reachservices.ie) as officially Tooth Fairy donations are ‘additions’ to income in one fiscal year. Each candidate is obliged to note these additions for each tooth loss and/or subsequent pecuniary award.
(Power Ranger Suit, eh??)
mack on March 25, 2007
hi my name is mack well i am a girl and yesturday i lots my tooth because it was like hurting so much and it wasn’t loose or anything i just pulled it out and i started to cry because it really hurt and my dad was saying that it was a adult and hegot me really frightened and i almost started to cry again and then i asked my mom if it was a adult and she said no and i felt much better. you know why i thought that is was a adult tooth because it was one of my back teeth and my dad said that thoughs were perminit teeth so yeah and now it is bugging me today cause i have a big hole loke where the tooth were so well bye
mack.
portland cosmetic dentist on November 1, 2007
damn that must have hurt like hell!
kav on February 16, 2007
That’s a shame. Don’t know any scéals about baby teeth, but I broke my front teeth when I was 10 or 11 - a lad tripped me down a stairs at school and I landed head-first. I’ve had crowns since. They crumbled a few times in my teens, but I’ve had the same ones now for about ten years.
In other words, this information is completely useless to you.