Friday, February 26, 2010

Tooth troubles

This morning Kelton decided to get himself out of the bath by himself, and Natalie decided to "help" him by pushing him on his way out. This resulted in Kelton smacking his mouth into, I'm assuming, the toilet. (I didn't actually see it happen.) Anyway we were finally able to see that one of his front teeth got pushed back and jammed up into his gums. We've spent most of the day trying to track down a dentist who works on Friday, going to the dentist (and waiting forever) and just trying to figure out what to do. After all that, we aren't even happy with the dentist we saw and are going to take him to a different dentist, hopefully on Monday. I'll let everyone know what the prognosis is after that. After talking to my brother, who is a dentist, it sounds like most everything the dentist we went to said to do, isn't quite right. So we will see what happens--leave the tooth, pull the tooth, or something else...

So for right now, and maybe for a while after, my cute little boy looks like a hockey player. You can see from the first two pictures that his upper lip is pretty swollen. His upper lip isn't normally that big in profile.

This is the best picture we could get of his teeth. He doesn't want us having anything to do with them so it's hard to get a look at them. I do have to say though, I think his teeth look way better in the picture than in person. You can't really get the same angle and depth perception when looking at a picture. But this gives you an idea. So the front tooth that is jammed up in was the same size and length as the other one. You can see in the picture that it looks more the same size as the smaller tooth next to it.

Here is a "normal" picture, just for comparison.

8 comments:

Destiny said...

Most dentists should have an emergency number you can call. I know ours does. Let me know if you want it. She's in Tucson, but we really like her and she's good with kids. Hopefully he isn't bothered by it too much.

Elaine said...

Ikes, Cherie. You and your adventures. In the end everything will turn out, but poor Kelton!

Jenn said...

Awww poor Kelton! That is stinky about the dentist!! Too bad your bro doesn't live closer! Hope everything works out ok!

Rifle Fam said...

Hope Kelton's feeling a little better! It makes me hurt just looking at the pictures.

Mayhem no longer said...

Ouchie! Give him lots of love!

Rifle Fam said...

Cherie, I confirmed it with a Pediatric Dentist. Just get an x-ray to make sure it is not fractured (it is rarely touching the permanent tooth bud, so little concern there). If not, leave it alone and it should re-erupt on its own.

Brittanie said...

Cutest fat lip I've ever seen! =) It's too bad you didn't live near us so that Nathan could take a look at it! I hope you get it all figured out today!

burgessbunch2008 said...

Wow my poor little nephew....today he seemed to be doing better with it though. He was a trooper through the xray!!!