Saturday, December 25, 2010

All Ethan Wants for Christmas is his Two Front Teeth...

Do you have any idea how few dentists work on Christmas Eve?  Okay, so I didn't call around a whole lot (kind of hard to do when you would prefer the dentist has some prior knowledge of your special needs child), but I did speak to the children's ER, Telehealth and left messages with the paediatric dentist's emergency number and his paediatrician's office.  I was cleaning his mouth after his steroid inhaler and noticed blood.  The tooth was just barely sitting in the socket for a while and then he gagged a bit and it came loose.  We were able to save the tooth this time.  Once the paediatric emergency doctor called back, he said he wasn't too concerned about this second lost tooth.  And if Ethan were...say 2 years older I wouldn't give it a second thought either.  As it is, now we need to see if there is a medical reason that his teeth are falling out and not one due to adult teeth coming up.


Oddly the crooked tooth that I thought would get too loose...seems to be well anchored.


There is no root to the tooth, but I'm not sure if that is the way the front teeth are since Lorelei still has all of her baby teeth.

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