Grey tooth after injury

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My 3yr old DD fell over and knocked her front tooth. The tooth has moved back slightly and X ray confirmed that thankfully there is no damage caused to the adult teeth. It is not wobbly, just dislodged. The tooth turned grey exactly one week after the fall and looks awful. The dentist said in some cases the colour can return to white again.
Has anyone else's DC experienced a tooth turning grey after an impact? Did it stay discoloured or return to white again?

I forgot to add - if it did turn back white, how long did it take?

My son did the same, it never returned to normal colour.

My dd1 had a grey tooth, adult teeth are perfectly white!

Dd had this after she banged a tooth after falling once. It went sort of grey/pinkish but the dentist said not to worry about it as it would fall out (milk tooth) which it did. It's colour did seem to get a little whiter before that though.

Never returned to white, it doesn’t make sense to me that it would revert to white.

Anyway it fell out, adult tooth all fine now (in my 9 year old)

It's not at all common for teeth to return from grey to white following trauma. Don't agree with your dentist on that. Re the new position/ dislodgement- is your child able to bite together in a normal manner?
Also, a grey or non-vital deciduous tooth doesn't necessarily need removal ( which may involve GA at age 3) unless, there is associated infection.
The vast majority of these non vital deciduous incisors exfoliate at the natural age.

She can bite down normally. The tooth looks more of a purple colour rather than a grey in the light, like a bruise almost. The dentist said in some cases if they discolour fairly quickly they can return to white or almost white but not all and she said it can take time. I just wondered if anyone here has had this with any of their children and if so, how long did it take to return to white? @ShouldIStayOrShouldIRun I think what happened with your DC is what my dentist was referring to.

My son had a bang and his tooth stayed grey. His adult teeth are beautiful.

This happened to my daughter about 18 months ago. She tripped and banged one of her front teeth on a toy, and the tooth went grey. The dentist said it would either fade, like a bruise, or remain grey until it fell out and the adult tooth grew in. I think the worst case scenario he gave was that the root might have been damaged and the adult tooth might also be discoloured.

In the event it faded and I can’t really tell that it was ever damaged; in fact I had completely forgotten it ever happened until I saw this thread . I think it took about six months to fade, a year at the absolute most. We had to be careful brushing it for a few weeks as it was still a bit sore, but it settled back in the gum with no problems. She was four when it happened, five and a half now.

It can’t possibly turn back to white. Grey means the nerve has died. I’d get another dentist

My daughter injured her tooth (seesaw v face) her tooth went brown but did return to white after a few weeks.