If a two years old child hits his mouth and one tooth cave in a little , what could be done to fix it?

Question

If a two years old child hits his mouth and one tooth cave in a little , what could be done to fix it?

Answer 1

A dentist should be a better person to ask.

Answer 2

My son fell off a stool aged 3 and one of his lovely pointy fangs got pushed in!

There was lots of blood and tears and an urgent dentist trip.

Dentist said it was ok, to be calm and leave it (to my surprise), because it will probably settle back into place - which it more or less has done. It is just a little pushed in now he is 5 and half.

It is a worry when this happens I know!

Answer 3

My son was 2 when he was running, fell and smashed his mouth on the metal part of the pullout couch. His front teeth were parallel to his jaw, practically pushed straight and back.

There was a lot of blood. My ma grabbed a wet washcloth and straightened his teeth, then we let him keep the washcloth in. Gave him some childrens tylenol, and kept an eye on it.

His top lip swelled and looked horrible for about a week.

His mouth is fine now. The teeth tightened back in the gums and his smile is straight. The teeth didn't die because of ma's quick thinking.

Answer 4

Something similar happened to my child while in his father's care. His father turned his back for just a second while out shopping (my son was sitting in the cart strapped in) when my son decided to learn how to unbuckle at that exact moment and take a nose dive out of the cart. His father promptly brought him home (still no clue why he didn't just rush him to the hospital) where he told me what happened. We took him to the ER where we were told that he would be fine being that it was his baby tooth. We were still concerned because the tooth had turned a dark brown, nearing black and the doctor explained that due to the fall the nerves to that tooth were now dead but as soon as his adult tooth would come in he would be fine. He is now nearly 11 with most of his adult teeth and doing fine (aside from the need for braces which had nothing to due with the accident, he's a thumb sucker and prolong exposure to his teeth being pushed one way as well as hereditary offset teeth did that).

Answer 5

Call a dentist and see what can be done.They might just fill it and be done. I know my oldest daughter(almost 4 now) was 2 when she tripped on her flip flop and fell straight into the steps with her mouth and killed every nerve in her 2 front teeth...she had to have them pulled. So I would call the dentist and tell them what happened and what it looks like and they will probably tell you what can and can not be done to the tooth.

Answer 6

It depends on what happened. If it;s just a little loose don't worry about it much because the roots will tighten up again within a few days. If it was knocked loose and bleeding alot and there's some discoloring then the tooth probably died and they can either cap it(i had silver caps on my two front teeth when I was five due to an accident in our driveway) or they can pull it I guess.

Answer 7

You can't do nething with the dentist for your kid yet till he reaches age 7. So perhaps get braces when he's older?

Answer 8

It means the tooth probably chipped off a little bit. It's nothing bad. Just take him to the dentist and they will fill in the area and nobody will be able to tell something happened. It won't hurt a bit.

Answer 9

Take him to the dentist.   If it's extremely loose, it may need to be pulled.  The dentist would then put in a "spacer" to keep that space open for his adult tooth to grown in there later.  If it's only a bit loose, they may try something else to stabilize it.  Either way, it should be seen by a dentist because it may start bothering him.

Answer 10

You can call the dentist, but most likely they will only check to be sure no damage has been done to the nreve or gum line.  being a baby tooth, it will only be there another few years,but an early trip to the dentist opposed to waiting until the child is 3 is not a bad idea.

My son, who is 3 now, was playing and chipped his front tooth on the tile floor...about 1/4 of his tooth chipped off the corner on the opposote side of his other front tooth.

I checked it and we brushed his teeth to see if we could tell how bad the chip was and if there was any sensitivity to it.  We got him to the dentist 2 days later (they didn't really feel a need to rush with what we told them).  The dentist had no concerns over it since it was a baby tooth and the nerve was not exposed.