Monday, September 5, 2011

Creative Princess's tooth

Creative Princess was visiting her grandma (known as Bestemor) who lives in our rental house on our property.  She decided to try to climb through a window, despite being told "no."  In the process, she slipped and hit her mouth and chin on the window sill and broke one of her front teeth. 
She came running over crying.  There was very little blood.  Her cousins were visiting and brought the broken tooth over.  Thankfully she was more scared then hurt.  It did hurt a bit and it hurt when she touched it but it wasn't severe at all. 

World Traveler called the dentist's office. This happened on Saturday and the dentist wanted to see her Sunday morning.  She also said to put the broken tooth in a cup of milk in case it can be used.  The piece that broke off was big and the dentist wasn't sure it would be strong enough. Unfortunately, once the dentist touched the tooth, it caused too much pain. She wrapped it with gauze to protect it. The dentist called a specialist whose answering service basically said "call back Tuesday."  So she is going to call and get an appointment and call us Tuesday.  Creative Princess will probably have to have some work done to keep the nerve from being exposed and causing more pain.  Then they will work on a way to make the tooth look normal and be functional.  The dentist we saw was not our regular dentist.  (Apparently he is on vacation.)  She was awesome!  We really felt that she was more concerned with our daughter's tooth than anything else.  She made our daughter feel at ease and was very calming.

So we will now be spending some time at the dentist's office over the next few weeks. This is the most serious injury I believe our kids have had-no stitches, no broken bones,etc.  Although both kids have had nursemaid's elbow but that isn't even as major as this, IMO.

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