My 2 year old daughter fell and pushed 2 of her teeth into her gums? Can anyone shed some light on this matter

Question

I took my daughter to the pediatric dentist and we can only wait and see to see if her teeth push back down? Im so devistated because i have never seen another child go through this and my concern is it will affect her adult teeth. Anyone that has had a similar situation please help me feel better about this! Thank you!!

Answer 1

We see this injury often in our office too.

Every case is different, but many are "wait and see" cases.
Only time will tell if any damage has occur ed above the gum line.
I assume the teeth themselves were not damaged, which is
a good thing. The dentist you saw will probably want to follow
up and monitor this injury.

best case scenario : no damage to teeth, inside or out
other scenario could include: baby root canals, restorations or
extractions.

No matter the result, this should not effect the permanent teeth,
except possibly delay the eruption of them should these teeth
need to be extracted prematurely.

The good news : these are baby teeth! and worry not, we
see alot of injury's- its not uncommon in children

Answer 2

Well well... Your daughter is only 2 years old, the teeth that she is having now sre the primary teeth, they will shed later on around at the age of 7(for the upper front teeth).
In deciduous teeth(primary teeth), when it is pushed into the boone in an accident, we will only wait for it to re-erupt again. It will happen, just wait and be patience. Sometimes, It doesn't erupt again, this is when ankylosis (fusion of the teeth with the bone) might had happened during the healing process of the bone after the accident. That's when we need to get them out manually. That's the reason you should bring your child to see the dentist in regular basis to make sure they did erupt again.
This is different if this case happened to an adult, we might manually pull out the teeth(there are few techniques) immediately.
Regarding the question about her 'adult teeth'(permanent teeth), It will depends on whether the root of the deciduous teeth hit on the permanent tooth germ or not?? The dentist will do an x-ray and see whether this happen or not.
Request for an x-ray if your dentist didn't do it.

Answer 3

I haven't heard of that before, but one of my cousins tripped and went head first into the edge of a coffee table when she was 2, her upper teeth were all slanted inwards for a few years, but her adult teeth came in fine. There's time, so if they don't come back out then the dentist should be able to do something.