If this is a medical emergency, call 911 right now. If it is a dental injury only contact your child’s pediatric dentist right now. Time can be very important in these situations.
Follow these guidelines for remedies to common injuries.
The best source of information regarding your child’s specific injury will come from your child’s pediatric dentist. If your child has seen a regular general dentist, we recommend you contact that office. Feel free to give us a call if you would like. We’ll be glad to help out.
Contact your child’s pediatric dentist as soon as practical — now if possible.
The best source of information regarding your child’s specific injury will come from your child’s pediatric dentist. If you have not yet contacted your child’s pediatric dentist we recommend you do so. If your child has seen a regular general dentist, we recommend you contact that office. Feel free to give us a call if you would like. We’ll be glad to help out if we can.
If you have already contacted your child’s pediatric dentist and are looking for some general follow-up information you’re in the right place.
Contact your child’s pediatric dentist. Sorry, we just had to mention it again.
Wait to see what reaction, if any, occurs. We will also examine the injured tooth periodically.
As it turns out, this is one of those wait-and-see situations. It is not possible to predict with certainty what will happen following an injury to a primary tooth.
All pediatric dentists have seen a fairly minor injury produce a problem that requires treatment and we’ve all seen a rather severe injury that does not. To complicate things more, infections can develop as a result of injured primary tooth months or years after the initial injury.
Because we are unable to precisely anticipate what will happen to an injured primary tooth, we check these teeth for quite a while following this type of injury; usually for years.
Good news for parents: Children frequently clunk primary front teeth. Our practice sees several patients each day who’ve experienced this type of injury.
Injured primary front teeth typically react in 1 of 2 ways:
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