teeth accident.

i have a feeling this is the first of many stories like this. tuesday, i came back into my office to find that i had several missed calls and two emails from my hubby to call his cell. usually i always have my cell on me but i had just stepped out into the library and left it on my desk. i immediately called brian and could tell he was at e’s daycare. he told me he had evan and then said “he broke..” and my mind went straight to broken arm, broken leg, etc in the 2 seconds it took for him to say “his tooth.”

apparently our little guy was playing chase with some of the other kids outside and tripped. he managed to crack his two front teeth and scrape up his upper lip.

by the time i got home, brian had given him some ibuprofen and they were snuggling on the couch watching cars – just the right medicine! evan’s upper lip had puffed up quite nicely – i think people pay good money for that kind of plumpness :)

anyway, after some more snuggles, we packed e up and headed to our dentist office. they wanted to take a look at his teeth and see what they thought we needed to do. e was so good for his first dentist visit and even had some xrays taken {of course daddy had to put the paper in his mouth for evan to even think of doing it!}. i don’t think they expected it to be as bad as it was so they referred us to a pediatric specialist.  it was at this point we noticed that he had broken not one, but two of his teeth…ugh!! we couldn’t get an appointment until the next day {yesterday} so we headed home to nap and then go to swimming.  you would never know anything had happened if you didn’t catch a glimpse of his teeth and lip!

yesterday, we went to the specialist who said that he had just missed exposing a few of the nerves and that he would be fine if we just wanted to leave the teeth as is. we also found out that he had completely torn the frenulum {muscle connecting the gum to the inner part of your mouth in the middle}. she wasn’t very worried about this since it tends to heal on it’s own. as for the teeth, we could have the sharp edges filed down but she said that would happen naturally. in the next couple of weeks, the teeth could turn gray. within the next year, there is also a risk of an abcess – yay! the big question now is whether we want to have them make his teeth look “normal” again. unfortunately, in order to fix them, they would have to put him under anesthesia and would basically do a kid’s root canal and then put a crown on it. none of this sounds great but neither does making our poor child go for at least 4 or 5 years with wonky teeth so that is the big decision for us! for now, he is completely fine and it hasn’t seemed to affect him at all. he’s been such a good boy with all of these doctor’s visits!

here are some pics of his teeth {excuse the food!}

poor little cheeseball!!