When the school nurse called she sounded a bit frantic that one tooth had been knocked out but I assured her that it was hanging on by a thread anyway. I assumed all was ok so thankfully Nene was home and could go pick Matt up. Well when we she got to school and saw Matt it took her a bit to compose herself. Marlie saw Matt and immediately said she felt sick. It was pretty bad.
Nene took him straight to the dentist and thankfully Dr. G could see him right away. She had to pull the other front tooth but thankfully these were his baby teeth and the xrays showed no permanent gum damage.
Matt teared up when he finally saw himself in the mirror. Poor Doug was out of town getting pictures that looked horrible over text. He was beside himself too!
I finally got home and watched Matt take a long nap. When he woke up he said he was okay and ready to get on the computer to play first in math!
Thank you to Nene for taking good care of Matt. A week later and his lip was back to normal and the scabs had already fallen off. And the tooth fairy gave him a bonus for losing 2 teeth at once in a traumatic fashion!! I'm sure this is not the only scary phone call we'll get. Matt plays hard and is not always the most coordinated little person. We are so thankful he ended up being okay!
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Iva just met a curb playing tag and pushed one of her permanent teeth back up into her gum and chipped the other. Fortunately I was with them and saw it happen - I think I scared her more thinking the one tooth was broken off until I got her to rinse her mouth out. She still hasn't let me take a picture of her "new" teeth and we have to go back at least one more time, but it seems like 50% of the people we meet have done something like this, so fairly common I guess. She's our accident prone one for sure.
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