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This morning my 2 year old, Mikey took a header off the bench and hit is face into a chair. He cut his upper lip very badly at the place where the canine is but it was not bad enough that I thought he needed stitches or anything so I have just been giving him Tylenol today.
Tonight I also noticed that one of his teeth had a bit of red around it so I felt the one tooth (with MUCH fighting from him) and found that it is pretty loose. It is not loose to the point where it is dangling or crooked in his mouth. Looking closely at it, I can see it is "off" a wee bit, bit not bad.
So my question is, Is this something I should
a. Rush him to the ER for? b. see a dentist tomorrow c. let it go and just keep a close eye on it since it is not bothering him.
I am headed towards leaving it be cuz if he is gonna lose the tooth, I now there is not much that can be done about it. and i know if it gets worse, I will then take him in.
Just wanted advice in case I am way off base here.
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keep an eye on it, and don't let him "bite"into anything hard. it will set back in in a few days
found that out when matthew was about that age they will do those things won't they.
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He is my first, but then Mikey is my first for a lot of things. He is the WILD child.
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Triss..Peanut did the same thing a few months back and whonkered his top front teeth...I just watched him...after a few weeks I noticed that his 2 front teeth are a little discolored...I didn't take him to the dentist..because they are his baby teeth and are going to come out anyway..I might be wrong to have that attitude..but have a friend who sunk thousands in her grands baby teethe...only to watch them fall out...
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Triss, I'm going back a few years but my oldest lost a front tooth at 13 mos. (two days after breaking her arm) and I rushed her to the ER. They did nothing and there wasn't any lasting fallout from the adventure. (no pun intended). All the rest of her preschool pics have a gap but that was her as I loved her. ~Tina
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Brennan had a bike wreck (face vs. blacktop) and knocked one of his teeth completely out, and the other one was loose. Rach took him to his dentist the next day and they had to remove the loose tooth.
But...he sure looked cute afterwards!
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Well it is not THAT loose, but he did hit it again tonight on Patrick's head. I have institued a NO ROUGHHOUSING policy for the next few days and violators will be sent to their beds never to come out again . They are honestly driving me nuts with the running around. They are also eager for sunny days!
Thanks for all the advice!
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Triss - poor Mikey! We all seem to have stories about our little boys around that age! Why is it always the boys?!? When Brian was about 18 months, he was chasing some ducks outside our apartment complex in Reno, and fell flat on his mouth on the sidewalk! He split his upper lip open so wide that I could see the fat inside - ewwww! I rushed him to emergency, as it was after hours, and they put a butterfly bandage on it - no stitches! He had the fattest lip I ever saw!!! He just has the teeniest scar now, but has a moustache so you really can't see it. We were very lucky that his teeth were not involved.
I hope Mikey heals quickly and doesn't have a problem with the tooth!
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And it was not like he got hurt messing around, he just slipped off the chair. He was so fussy tonight that I actually gave him a benedryl to help him sleep.
Cindy, Believe it or not LYS is the worst of my roughhousers. I am amazed she has not broken anything.
A few weeks ago they were trying to get out of knots they tied themselves in. And she had pulled the string so tight on her wrists I had to cut it off. I was livid. They all got lectures over how incredibly dangerous it was and I was in tears I was so scared. She had welts on her wrists for days. Well tonight she tied herself to her bed with the sash thingy from her bathrobe. Again, she had pulled so tight that I had to cut it off. She was on her bunk bed at the top and it was tied around her waist and the edge of the bed. If she had fallen off, she would have killed herself. She got in MAJOR trouble for that one.
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Kids and ropes/strings is one of my biggest fears, Triss. My son went to bed with a washer on his finger one night. In the morning it was so swollen it was hard to see the washer. My neighbor cut it off for me and no permanent damage. The things kids do (and do to each other) scare me. ~Tina
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I am with you on that. I know that none of the rope stuff was meant to cause harm, just too scary.
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Thank you all so much for popping in with answers so quickly. Dan was trying to get me to take him to the Urgent Care today and I really did not want to do that since all I have ever heard is they won't really do much about it if it is loose. reading about all you have been through just reaffirmed that. I will be keeping a VERY close eye on him though and if anything starts to look bad, we will be off to the docs in a flash.
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