Milk teeth have gone grey/purple after a fall

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Hello! My 2-year-old fell about a month ago and hit her front tooth. There was a bit of bleeding around the gum, but she seemed fine so I didn’t think much of it. About two weeks ago, the tooth started gradually turning grey, and it has progressively gotten darker to almost purple now. I took her to the dentist and they gave her an X-ray and said that the tooth is bruised and may lighten back up again or may stay dark. I wanted to see if anyone has experience with this of their own, just to see if there’s hope of her tooth lightening back up again. Thanks for any guidance!

Yes this happened to my DS. It brightened up after around 6 months and looks completely normal now!

I’m so glad to hear that. Thank you for sharing!

My daughter got smashed in her front milk teeth. The dentist Xrayed to check any damage to the adult teeth. There wasn't, and when they appeared they were fine.

I fell out of my walker as a child and busted my upper gums quite badly, my milk teeth were fine but weirdly my two front adult teeth came in with a minor chip, the dentist told me that it would have been from that incident but that it was rare for this to happen so I wouldn't worry too much.

DD 5 bruised her top front tooth as a toddler was told it could go back normal colour, it didn’t it stayed bruised just waiting for it to come out in next two years and hoping her adult teeth are unharmed. We make a point of telling her how beautiful her smile is as there’s been two or three comments from other children over the years about her ‘black tooth’ as they call it.

De has bruised front teeth, the returned to normal colour after a few months

Thank you for letting me know - that is definitely reassuring!

This also happened to my youngest. The adult teeth are quite discoloured and damaged from when she knocked her mouth badly and knocked her front milk teeth out.
The dentist is happy to fix this for her, but only after they have been straightened with her braces.

Oops wrong quote. Meant to quote @Shauna27

Two of my milk teeth 'died' following a fall age 2 onto concrete. They were grey-ish. When they fell out the adult teeth were just fine.

Mine isn’t a good one sorry - aged about 9 I fell and damaged my front tooth, it was bent backwards and the dentist pulled it back forwards.
By the time I was aged 20 ish the tooth was getting noticeably darker eventually going black. I now have a crown.
No one can tell one of my front teeth is a crown and people always compliment me on how nice me teeth are - so basically worse case scenario - a good dental surgeon can fix it.

My son fell into the metal bar of a climbing frame hitting his front tooth. It went grey/purple. Took a good few months but it went back to white , then when it fell out his adult tooth came through just fine.

Hi OP. Did your child's teeth return to white? X