dd6 has very painful wobbly milk tooth, keeps screaming when its touched

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by her tongue, or by the breeze it seems!! It started last night when she was in the bath, she was howling for about 2 hrs. I asked her if she'd banged it or chewed on somehting in the bath, but it doesn't seem so.

It's causing ditress so i have decided to keep her off school, as she keeps crying. She has had touble with each of her teeth, when the get wobbly, but none so much as this one. Other mum's report that there has been no discomfort with their dc's and their milk teeth.

Any experience? thanks

well, you might have to just whip it out - use a clean hanky or tissue, and pull....eeek, I know.

My DD had a couple of teeth that just WOULDN'T drop out even though they were loose/hanging by a thread etc., and it is a bit distressing for them. They keep fiddling with it, and it digs into the gum. Don't let the gum get infected.
For one tooth, which she wouldn't let me near to pull out myself, I think I even took her the dentist, who numbed the gum and pulled it out.
Could you numb it with an ice cube and then try pulling it out?

hi, well this tooth is so painful that she won't even open her motuh properly for me to look at it, so i can't guage how wobbly it is! She won't wobble it for me, as too painful.

We have a catch 22!! I think it's somehow dislodged, but looks to me too be stiil 'in place' so i would worry tha to pull it, well if it doesn't coem out int he first pull it there would be no chance of a second try.

I even contemplated yankng it in her sleep, but have read it might not be a good idea to interfere. I think the dentist thing is a go d idea, but tbh she wold prob not go back again!!

i dont have any advice but i can sympathise with you, my dd has her first wobbly tooth and she is behaving like its a leg shes gonna lose.

thnaks, same here. She is off school, which of course i feel guilty about, but i can't send her when she is so distressed everytime the bloody thing moves.

She's also got a cold, and there seems to be alotof kids off atm, so i don't feel too bad.

i really need to get over my guilt issues

lol, i think guilt issues are just part if being a mummy, my dd is off today for inservice days or something and she has shoved the tooth in my face about dozen times already this morning, only another 20 or so of them to come out

how old is your dd?
oh me and guilt are best buddies!!

she is 5 she will be 6 in feb, i never know if i'm doing the right thing with them health wise and always make the wrong choices then end up feeling really guilty

could it be infected? I'd send her to the dentist.

Is it her first tooth to fall out? The process can be upsetting but once the toothfairy has been the next tooth might be easier.

I'd go for a quick trip to the dentist, he can pull it out with no fuss. Mine used to give me loads of trouble coming out, and would hang on for ages - they were genuinely painful if they got pushed sideways. My dentist pulled them for me several times just to get it done with - I never had issues going to the dentist, he was a nice man who sorted out problem teeth!

this is her third tooth. She has had similar problems with 2 out of three!! Yet not such a violent reaction to pain. I think she must have jarred it, or something in the bath, without realsing.

She is biting down on pitta bread atm , so i am thinking it's calmed down.

She does go off the boil with any pain tho, combined with this cold, it ain't a good mixture.

amum, yes iswym. Unfortunately our dentist is a total hard nut, and has no bedside manner, let alone tenderness. We are now fortunate enought to have this NHS place, but it has a bad reputation.

Nowhere else we can go i am afraid, as live in tiny rural town. I think now that it's calmed down this morning, i will think about the dentist, if it seems to flareup again.