Hi as i was riding to skool like many other days, i jumped a jerb and my wheel came off and therefore landed straight on my face lots of blood. Ambulence came and i was all stitched up and ready to go. THe next day i realise that my lip where i landed has become twice as huge and my tooth is wriggling just a bit. Do you think my lips will go back in place to normal or stay like this. very huge?? When i feel my lips with my tongue i can feel the stamp that my tooth has left and its prety big. WIll i ever be normal??
2006-10-24 11:15:16 · 15 answers · asked by amitheonlyone2006 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
don't worry, it happens that when you fall on your face your tooth cuts your lip, making it swell. your lip will get back to normal, just give it some time. you might want to put some ice on it. as for your tooth being loose, try not to move it too much and don't chew your food on it. when your face gets a bit better check if it is still very loose, and if yes go to the dentist and he will fix it up for you.
2006-10-24 11:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by fukuoka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anytime you have an injury, swelling and bruising is normal, use ice for swelling. You are going to be sorer the next day!! I'm sure the hospital gave or told you to take some pain medications. Be sure to take it easy.
This is the body's defense to help start the healing process. First of all keep all your wounds/ cuts very clean, use Neosporin or bacitracin on your wounds, But don't use them in your mouth. Gargle with some warm salt water...yes, it can burn a little but this will help the sores in your mouth.
Because you hit your tooth and it is loose, I would see your dentist. You could have disrupted the root of your tooth, which is the tooth's blood supply, causing the tooth to die- but don't worry, your dentist can help. Good luck and hope you feel better.
2006-10-25 03:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by nurse 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not, you'll always look like you do right now.
Just kidding.
Swelling is normal, it will go down. Your face will heal faster than you'd think, because the amount of blood circulation in the head is huge.
You can put a cold pack on it to help bring the swelling down, but not more than 20 minutes at time, or it may do the opposite. Either way, though, you will heal fine.
2006-10-24 21:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put a little ice on your lips for about 15 minute a couple times a day and they will be back to normal but it will take some time.
2006-10-24 18:22:50 · answer #4 · answered by geishagirl61 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For small-ish cuts or burns, Cayenne pepper has worked really well for me. I use cayenne on every cut I get now, and I haven't had any scars from those ones... but similar-sized cuts I received before starting to use cayenne would leave scars.
My recommendation (Warning: I'm not a doctor, just someone who has experienced great things from this method): create a cayenne pepper paste (powered cayenne, mixed with JUST enough water to make it a thick paste that's not watery), and put it on there for at least 30-60 minutes (wherever the cuts are)... perhaps not all cuts at once, though, if there are very many. Because:
What cayenne does, in part, is stimulate blood flow to the area of the cut to promote healing. It helps to speed healing (cutting healing time down to less than a quarter of the usual time if I use just rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and/or neosporin) by extracting the infection from the wound, among other things... because infections will slow or prevent healing, and having an infection can cause the wound to heal improperly, thus resulting in the scars. So, all that said, if you put it on a LOT of cuts or a significant area of the body, it could over-tax your system as the system tries to respond to them all at once. Space it out, doing only small areas at a time (I can't recommend size, I've never had worse cuts than those that happen while preparing food and things like that). And I don't know about using cayenne on large cuts, either, because I've never done it... but for small-ish cuts (an inch long, by a mm wide or something, or pea-sized if round, that kinda thing) it's worked great for me. Like I say, no scarring for small cuts anymore... and small cuts heal within hours sometimes (usually by the next morning it's almost gone... and within two days, for small cuts as I say, they're totally healed over, and invisible within a week or two).
Anyway, I'm not a doctor, like I said. I only know what has worked for me and my family for years. Rubbing alcohol and Hydrogen peroxide never took the infection out: cayenne does for me. I once had a cut that was so inflamed and red after a couple days, that I was worried about staph infection... I decided to use cayenne--this was early on before I was using it on all cuts--and even though it was a couple days after I'd received the cut, by the next morning it was completely normal and uninfected, and did not get infected again for the remaining few days I had the cut. I simply put a cayenne paste on my finger, wrapped it in bandaids, and went to bed... cleaned it off the next morning (I use rubbing alcohol to clean it off afterward...alcohol no longer hurts after cayenne, but it will keep it sterile as I'm getting the cayenne off.)
2006-10-24 20:51:58 · answer #5 · answered by Laius Slain! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep your lips swelling with go down and try not to play with that loose tooth...it will re-implant itself if allowed to. I imagine you're drooling and slurring from the lip but hey GREAT halloween get-up if it lasts.
2006-10-24 19:22:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya if will go down in about 3 weeks hun and try notto bug the tooth to much cuz if u do u will make it even loser and it will come out and im prety sure you don't want that best wishes
2006-10-24 18:19:15 · answer #7 · answered by Tyler 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You will come good,I know a jockey that got his face kick in by a racehorse,his whole side of his face is caved in,and lost his right eye,you should think yourself lucky,good luck with your lips
2006-10-24 18:41:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your lip will probably go back to normal
2006-10-24 18:17:32 · answer #9 · answered by Abby 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you may loose the tooth, but your lips should go back to normal or close to it.
2006-10-24 18:23:02 · answer #10 · answered by bookworm_382 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋