All I want for Christmas...

...Is my two front teeth! Back on the 4th of July weekend Nolan had a little fall.  He was playing baseball with Kevin while we were over at Pappa Dushi's house swimming.  Nolan was being silly and was "hiking" the baseball to Kevin.  He had done it a few times but somehow he lost his footing and fell.  He hit his mouth on the paver around a tree.  He came up screaming with a bloody mouth.  Immediately we could tell that one of the front teeth was a little loose.  We tried to get him to calm down and to clean it up but he was pretty shaken up about it.  We called his dentist who happened to be out of town for the week but left the number of another dentist to call.  We left a message for her and started to head home.  We thought about going to urgent care but heard from the dentist before we got there.  She said there really wasn't anything that could be done over the weekend.  Through the miracle of technology she even face timed with Kevin and was able to look at Nolan's teeth.  She said to just try to keep ice on it, give him motrin, and avoid eating with those teeth.  She wanted to do x-rays on Monday to see if they were broken or not.

On Monday Kevin took him in to see her.  She said she thought they might need to come out but to follow up with his dentist who would be back the next day.  I took Nolan on Tuesday morning and before I knew it they were prepping to pull his teeth.  This came as a shock because we thought we were just going in to see what the next step would be.  Both teeth were cracked above the gum line (I could see the crack on the x-ray).  We were told if we didn't pull them they would most likely come out on their own but could cause more harm than good.  They came out very easily but Nolan started to flip out once they were done.  It was really just from the Novocaine wearing off.  The feeling in his lips was weird to him.    Once the numbness was gone he was back to normal.  We told him that he looked like a hockey player...he loves hockey so this was pretty cool to him.  That night he put his teeth out for the tooth fairy.  He got $2!  A co-worker of Kevin's loaned us the Tooth Fairy movie which he enjoyed watching a lot.

Nothing will be done to the space in his teeth.  We will just have to wait until he is 6 or so for the permanent teeth to grow in.  The dentist doesn't believe any damage was done to the permanent ones.  While we were worried about him not having teeth for so long everyone is adjusted to his toothless smile, and he is just as cute as ever!

Day of the fall...all cleaned up



Toothless smile