8yr old, broken 2 front teeth :-( Anyone with experience?

[beautifulgirls]

DD1 is 8yrs old and today at school was accidentally hit in the face with a rounders bat. She has broken two upper front teeth. One has just under a half left visible and the other is broken in part below the gum line with a little bit still visible. The dentist saw her about an hour after it happened and has put something on to seal them both, then managed to build up the one with about half left and it looks brilliant. The other one he couldn't do much with as not enough tooth left to stick stuff onto at present. Xrays suggested there are no breaks in the root or the bone around. We have to go back next week to have it all checked. What are they likely to be able to do from here in a child of this age with the one that has broken off so low? I am just thankful it was only 2 teeth and a small bruise on her chin rather than severe head injuries but still really sad for her too.

I'm a dentist and it really is absolutely impossible to say without seeing her it is horrid and there are several things that could be done to fill the space depending on how well DD would cope with them.

You would probably do well though to start a small fund in case she needs an implant when she's old enough (around 18 years+).

Hugs to you both, I do an NHS OOH clinic and it's heart breaking to see these cases.

Oh, poor thing. I really hope they manage to do something for her.

My brother hit me in the face with a tennis racquet when I was 11. I still have my front teeth, fortunately, although one is now veneered and one has a post and crown. At the time the dentist built them up with composite filling. Just before my 18th birthday my boss (I was a dental nurse then) did veneers for me.

My Dd(12) fell coming out the bath last year and hit her face on the radiator, she broke one of her front teeth leaving the nerve exposed. It was a Saturday night and I called NHS 24 and managed to get an appointment the next morning at the Glasgow Dental Hospital. They sealed the tooth and left it for 4 weeks to see if the nerve was going to survive, which it did. She then had a cap put on the remained of the tooth. It looked great.
Unfortunately 2 weeks ago the nerve died and Dd has had an abscess in the remainder of the original tooth. She has had root canal treatment and a course of antibiotics. The tooth was filled yesterday, which was very tricky and took 45 minutes. Our dentist said it will eventually discolour and they will then put a veneer over the tooth, but they are going to wait as she is having braces fitted in the summer.

I hope your Dd is ok, she must have had a real shock. Like you I was grateful it wasn't worse. An inch difference and Dd would have broken her nose.

I broke my front tooth when I was about 8. The dentist put a cap on it, which lasted until I was about 20 before it needed replacing. I've just got another cap now. Each time the dentist has said it should last about a year. In hindsight I should have got them to do me a crown or veneer when I got free dentistry post DS2.

My friend lost his front teeth when he was about 13 (in a sliding on ice accident). He's got false teeth for them.

Thank you for the advice and stories. I have the added difficulty with her that she has ASD, though to be fair she was brilliant at the dentist today but she easily gets sensory overload and may end up in tears and refuse to let anyone near her if she reaches that level of stress. I'm not sure she is going to cope with having local anaesthetic injections to do work though, so we do have to factor that in. It's not insurmountable and I can talk to her and see what she feels about things too. Sometimes she totally surprises me what she can cope with! They basically said today the really short one will die off with 99% certainty and that the other one has at best a 50/50 chance of the root surviving.

I wish I had seen this earlier. My dd (10) has broken both of her front teeth in half (horizontally). One has been built up and is fine (for now) and the other has been left covered for around 6months. She refused to have the local anaesthetic to fix the second tooth when we went back for it to be built up and she is now in the care of a dental hospital children's department. Unfortunately they found that the second tooth has died and needs a root canal, which we have been waiting for around 2 months. I am devastated, but can be thankful that it isn't worse. She is due to start orthodontic treatment next year and I am concerned about how that will go too.

Hi - Sorry to hear about your daughter....the update for us is this:
DD had the central incisor built up pretty much straight away and so far the tooth is doing ok, though the long term is still unclear. The lateral incisor could not be saved and a root canal was considered a big step with a high risk of failure (after seeing several specialists...that is another story!) and so it was removed at Guys, along with her baby canine tooth next to it. The aim is to allow her adult canine tooth to move down into the place of them both. Later they will either move it back with orthodontics and create the space again for a bridge/implant longer term, or they will reshape the canine flatter like a front tooth. She has done very well with things so far.