Handling tooth trauma is essential when you want to keep your child’s smile sparkling. A knocked out tooth, chipped tooth, or a loosened permanent tooth at home or at school occurs often especially with children.
Here are the steps when dealing with a knocked out tooth:
- Make sure your child does not have any other injuries such as a concussion or a broken jaw.
- Don’t try to reinsert the baby tooth because it would affect the permanent one coming behind it.
- The tooth should be held by the crown not the root to avoid infection.
- Rinse debris off the tooth with room temperature water.
- If the permanent tooth cannot be reinserted, keep the your child’s tooth moist and stored in a container until you can see a dentist. Tooth injuries are never life threatening, but can affect a child’s appearance and their self-confidence; therefore, it is important to act quickly in a tooth trauma situation. That’s the truth.
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– Dr. Shakoori