lip injuries - happy endings please!

[alittleteapot]

dd (3) fell and badly bashed her lip about ten days ago. It was up like a grape but apparently just bruised not cut. The swelling went down but there was a grim looking lump which the doctor thought was infected so she is now on antibiotics. Yesterday the doc said infection gone and the odd ulcery dangling lump should clear up in a couple of weeks. But I'm feeling a bit worried about it and would welcome stories in which horrible lip injuries cleared up to leave little or no mark.

tia

I knw someone who had a dog bite her face! Her lip was gross (had stitches as well) and she couldn't talk for a while. However, it did eventually settle down and there was no visible scar left on the lip.

thank you, that story was just what the doctor ordered. glad they were ok - sounds horrible!

I too was bitten badly by a dog when I was a teenager. 17 stitches on bottom and top lip. Four weeks later you would have had to look very closely to have spotted the scar.

When my son was 2 he was running across the garden then tripped at full speed and smashed his face into the decking. The amount of blood was so unbelievable that we couldn't at first see what had happened and assumed he'd knocked teeth out. But when I was eventually able to look at it I realised his top teeth had gone right through his bottom lip and come out the other side, so there were two massive slits right through the area under his bottom lip. After A&E patched him up with glue and paper stitches etc he looked like a boxer! His lip was massive and purple and he looked terrible. After a week or so the two slits had gone black and crusty and he still ahda massive lip. But fast forward a few more weeks and he just had very distinct purple-ish scars. Fast forward to today (he's 5) and you ahve to look very closely to see anything, but what's there is a thin white line and no damage to the shape of his lip. Mouths are very good at healing because they have such a good blood supply.

awww i hope she is all better soon teapot

ds3 fell off a chair a few weeks ago and put his tooth all the way through his lip. looked awful, but you can't even see it now

Thanks everyone. Her lip is better by the day - i reckon the traces will disappearn in another few weeks. I should have had more faith as had a lip injury myself when I was a kid - brakes failed on bike speeding down hill - smashed into a pebble dashed wall and broke both arms and had butterfly stitch in lip and forehead! Again, you have to look very hard to see any trace of scars today!

I too had a lip injury but when I was about 10 (older than your DCs) but it healed pretty well.

Someone was acting a fool and threw a metal tablespoon at me and it split my bottom lip in half downwards right down to where the lip joins the gum. I was stitched and glued. Couldn't laugh or smile or talk properly for a few weeks but after about 6 weeks it was just a little red and now you can't tell anything happened.

Glad your DD is healing nicely :)

When my son was 2 yrs old he fell into a metal seat (at a football stadium) and sustained the most horrible injury. The sharp metal corner of the seat pierced straight through his upper lip, leaving a gaping hole/wound. Massive amount of bleeding and all very worrying. The hospital brought down a plastic surgeon to look at him and all sorts, but in the end they decided not to even stitch him up, as 'young children heal so very quickly'. I was horrified and demanded a second opinion (but got same response).

The wound was closed and dry and virtually painless after about a week, scar had gone within weeks. Amazing, really. Surgoens were right

He is 5 yrs old now and you would never know it happened.