Baby chipped tooth

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My 12 month old ds banged his mouth on the window sill this morning and there's now a small chip out of the corner of one of his front teeth. He cried for about 5 seconds and has been totally unbothered by it since then.

I don't know if I need to see a dentist or not, does anyone have any advice please?

I doubt it really. there isnt a lot they can do. my DS1 chipped his front tooth about the same age and I did ask the dentist and she said precisely that - she had a feel around to check his gum and if it was loose or anything, but it wasnt, it was just a chip. I think I may be sad when he loses that tooth as we're used to it now!

When DS did this, we got it checked out by a dentist - she gave us a prescription for Corsodyl (which you can buy in the chemist I think) to put on with a cotton bud (DS had also sliced through his frenum as well so it might have been as much for that I suppose rather than the tooth). DS' tooth was chipped clean across and somewhat alarmingly she said if it was sharp and bothering him we could file it down gently with an emery board ourselves , thankfully we didn't need to do that. Hopefully at this age it won't have damaged the adult tooth beneath it (DS did his aged about 14 months, he'd only got his first tooth at 12 months) which I think is the main concern when they damage baby teeth.