Capping a baby tooth?

[WeeG123]

DS fell when playing last Sunday and chipped one of his front teeth. We took him to the dentist and dentist said the root etc. looks fine, that it’s a baby tooth and doesn’t envisage any problems for when his adult teeth grow in. Even though the dentist wasn’t concerned, I am still absolutely gutted/angry nearly a week on. Had anyone had any experience of capping their child’s baby tooth after a similar incident?

It know it sounds terrible but I keep thinking ahead about photos (nursery/school photos etc.) and how fucked off I’ll feel if he has a chipped tooth in them. I know this sounds so pathetic as worse things can definitely but I just can’t seem to let it go and rest with it.

Thanks.

You're angry? Goodness!

Did you discuss it with the Dentist?

They are there for tooth hygiene not really aesthetics. You will be able to get it do Evie you pay privately

I’m assuming he’s preschool age?
No dentist will do that, sorry.

He’s 18 months (very young, I know) but I just can’t help feel mad about it the situation. Not DS, just the situation as we always take good care of his teeth.

Ii am sure you will all get used to his new look soon enough, and will grow to love it as part of his lovely face. It's early days.

No UK dentist would do it. It would require a general anaesthetic , twice .

Many,many children do this and you probably have never noticed the chips .

This happened to us at a similar age. The dentist was great and made a sort of tooth out of something to replace the chipped part. It fell off twice and after that we just left it.

I was absolutely gutted too, but we got used to it. Now DS is about to get his adult teeth and it will be strange seeing him with a full tooth again.

Honestly, don’t do it. You will soon be into the phase of gappy smiles- no one will look twice at a chipped tooth. Putting your child through a GA for the sake of nursery photos would be barking mad. Get the photos photoshopped if you care that much.

So your main concern is how he looks?
Be grateful he wasn’t more badly hurt perhaps and that it wasn’t an adult tooth.

As a pp has said you'd need a general anaesthetic to do that dentistry on an 18m old.

I had a friend who hated his nose. His parents paid for him to have it "fixed" for his 18th. Turned out that he was allergic to the general anaesthetic and he died. Rare - yes. Cosmetic procedure - yes. Worth the risk - imo no