Monday, May 04, 2009

bumped tooth

Owen was pushing Andy in the baby swing and the swing came back and knocked Owen in the tooth. We didn't think it was much at the time, but after a few days his tooth turned grey and we went to the Dentist. 

It seems that the bump broke the blood vessils in Owen's front tooth, and as the blood was absorbed into his tooth, it turned grey. The Dentist told us that the tooth is fine, Owen isn't in pain (Owen said that too), and that this will not affect his adult tooth (thank goodness!), but the tooth might stay grey until it falls out. The other 2 possibilities are that the tooth may clear up and go back to white, or (get ready for this...) the tooth could co black. BLACK! Yikes! Lets hope that doesn't happen. 

Owen doesn't seemed phased by the color of his tooth at all, so that is good! 

3 comments:

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Unknown said...

hmmm...i wonder what sort of cash the tooth fairy coughs up for odd-coloured teeth...

Unknown said...

That happened to Presley too, her gray has slightly faded...