DS had a fall and pushed his front teeth in, worried about his chewing

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My 5yr old ran into the radiator this morning. He collided into it with his mouth and cut his lip but more importantly pushed his front two teeth back a bit - towards his tongue. They no longer fit in place when he closes his mouth like they used to - he can't put his top two front teeth in front of his bottom teeth so his bite feels wrong to him. When he closes his mouth they are now behind his bottom teeth and I cannot see if his molars are meeting when he bites down.
Anyway, there is nothing to be done - they are baby teeth so the dentist wouldn't be able to help. I spoke to a dentist friend, who said there is nothing a dentist would do. We need to watch and wait and see if they go grey as they then may have to be taken out . I think the idea is that he will just cope with the misalignment in time and they will fall out in the next few years anyway. I also realise they may return to their correct position over th next few months.

I have three questions -

1. how long do you think he should only have soft food for? As well as not being able to bite into food (ie like you would with a sandwich) it looks like, with the top teeth now pointing inwards, biting to chew with his molars effectively looks awkward for him.
2. He is at school tomorrow, so I should I send him in with something instead of school lunch? (No packed lunches in his school usually). Lunch is meant to be pasta so he won't have to bite it with his front teeth, but he will have to chew....

The problem is it is so hard to see how much the front teeth being pushed is affecting his ability to chew as obviously it's all too sore to chew right now anyway. So I don't know if he will cope with pasta at school tomorrow. But don't want to send him with no back up only for him not to be able to eat lunch

1. Other than soup (and risotto, which he doesn't like!) everything I can think of that is soft is sweet..... So ideas for dinners and lunch to send him to school with?? (No way of heating food on site that I am aware of, it is a very small school that is an offshoot of a larger one, so the hot food for lunch is bought in)

Thanks for your thoughts

Your poor Ds
This happened to my Ds. I took him to the dentist who wanted to check up on him a while later to ensure the guns didn't get infected where the teeth had made bigger holes than they needed. He told me to cut all his food up into tiny pieces so he didn't have to bite anything, only chew stuff with the back teeth. I think I had to do this for about a month or 2.

Thanks MoltenBrownChocolate. I'll keep a close eye - they are very firmly in place, which sort of amazes me as I'd think if they were pushed back the spaces they sit in would have widened and they would be loose. But then, I'm not a dentist! So I have no idea what I am talking about!
I'm just a bit worried about his capacity to chew with his back teeth at the moment so even cutting food up small may not work terribly well, but we will stick with soup and very soft foods for a while and see how we go.

Personally I'd take him to the dentist as I was also told it may have damaged ds's adult teeth underneath. Also if he can't chew at the back, it may be better to have the wonky teeth removed.
Other soft food could include mashed potato, scrambled egg, mashed up baked beans, but I really can't think of anything suitable for packed lunches unless you have a food flask. I hope he's not in too much pain

I've got him booked to see a dentist tomorrow. He managed little bits of bread and sponge cake today, so I think his chewing is ok now but he's refusing to try chewy foods so we'll keep him on the softer stuff til he's seen a dentist.

Good luck at the dentist today.
If he can eat bread, maybe try him with sandwiches containing hummus, pate, cream cheese, peanut butter (depending on school policy obviously), finely chopped egg mayo, grated cheese.
Let me know how he gets on at the dentist

DS did something similar - pushed his front 2 bottom teeth out of position with a slight wobble, and slightly chipped the top two. He did it on a Friday afternoon before a bank holiday weekend so we took him to an emergency dentist on the Friday night. She checked him over and prescribed antiseptic mouthwash to swish round his mouth while DS wouldn't brush. We also saw our dentist first thing on the Tuesday who took a baseline of the trauma and saw him every six weeks for 3 months. He was also on a soft food diet for six weeks. Fortunately the teeth have resettled - in a different position. Likely that there is no lasting damage but the dentist wants to keep a close eye when his second teeth come through to confirm this.

Fingers crossed your experience is as straightforward.

Thank you Molten and Waxy.
The dentist went well, in fact the teeth are not as pushed in as I thought - seems I had clicked the worse one back into place myself and the main problem now is swollen and bruised gums and a slight chipped tooth.
He's still on soft food today but am hoping in the next day or so we can move onto more of his normal stuff.