Thursday, July 17, 2008

All Sam wants for Christmas is...

One evening at Nana & Papa's, Sam was playing with his sisters before bedtime. Sam was jumping off the bed onto an air-mattress. Everyone was having fun until Sam catapulted himself across the room and hit a chair sitting at a desk. As you can see in the photo, there are marks in the chair that Sam made with his front teeth. After what seemed to be a significant amount of bleeding and crying, we learned that Sam had jammed his two front teeth back up into his gums. We were fortunate to have the dentist look at Sam over the weekend and we found out that he also broke the bone above his teeth. The diagnosis is his teeth will come back down like before (possible discoloration) or they will fall out. If they fall out he will be toothless until his permanent teeth come in. Regarding the broken bone above his teeth, that will heal and when he sucks on his fingers or milk glass it will help keep the shape so the bone forms correctly.

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