Dylan's first visit to the dentist

Things worked out for us today.  Dylan is in fact covered on our dental insurance - I am glad that we got smart and enrolled him way back when I thought that we weren't going to for a few years.  Secondly, a pediatric dentist nearby just rejoined our in network dentists and we were able to get in to see him today.  After I called they insisted I bring him in first thing in the morning which meant no school.  Amazing, it was probably a good thing since all his closest little friends were out sick and not there either.

I will tell you now, he is fine.  The dentist felt that in 5 years there will be no sign that this ever happened.

The first thing they wanted to do was get an x-ray.  He was to sit on my lap, put the film in his mouth and have the x-ray taken.  Well that took 4 of us and I was dreading the actual exam.  Come time for the dentist to look into his mouth although I was holding him down he actually opened his mouth and sort of actually let him do what he wanted to do.  That was until the assistant used the air pick thing which freaked him out and caused him to scream,  We were able to secure his head still enough and he nicely kept his mouth open for the dentist so that he could file down his chipped tooth somewhat to make it smoother and more normal looking.  As for the tooth that was pushed back and up some, the dentist says that some fibers were torn and the others stretched but neither tooth was loose which was great.  He thought that as the fibers healed themselves that they may shorten up and pull the tooth back closer to its original position.  The thing we have to watch the most for now is that the trauma that was done to the teeth could cause them to darken in color which there is nothing that we can do about it but he will need to go back in 3 months if that happens for more x-rays and most of the time even if they darken they are totally fine otherwise.  There is only a small percentage that turns dark and gets infected and needs to be taken out.  There is also a small percentage that will darken and then heal up and turn back white and a percentage that nothing happens at all.  I'm hoping for the heals up fine, stays white, no issues.  But all in all, things turned out OK.  If anyone needs a dentist in an emergency, Dylan's dentist will take calls after hours from non-patients unlike several other pediatric dentists in the area which I unfortunately learned.

As for his flesh wound, I think that will heal up OK also and if it does leave a small scar it is in the crease of his mouth/chin so it shouldn't be noticeable thankfully.

Sorry no pictures.  It's been a long week.