[ekortering]

I did a search and all I came up with was tooth decay. Are there any mamas who have experienced this with their toddler. Abigail took a hard tumble into the coffee table a few weeks ago when she was just starting to walk. It left tooth marks in the table so I am wondering if something happened. The back of her front tooth is def. black. I haven't called a ped. dentist yet because I want to see if it gets worse or better. Am I doing the right thing or should I get her in ASAP? Thanks for your imput!

Erin

 

[momtoTnT]

I don't know what the 'right' thing to do is, but if she hit her tooth hard and now it's turning grey/black, I'd take her in ASAP.

 

[starbarrett]

When I was a toddler, I fell on my front teeth on the cement stairs of our apartment building and it killed one of my front teeth. It was grey/black because it was "dead" for all of my young childhood. When my baby teeth started falling out, my dentist pulled the dead tooth and a new adult tooth came in just like normal.

My guess is that the fall may have done damage to the tooth. I would definantly take her into a dentist to have it checked out.

 

[liam's mom]

yes, grey means the tooth is dead. poor baby! i don't know if your health practitioner can do anything, but you might want to take her in.

 

[nonconformnmom]

Yes, it's definitely nerve damage to the tooth. I learned this when my teenage daughter's front tooth turned grey. She had suffered no trauma to it recently, but our dentist said the nerve was dead and it could have resulted from trauma in her childhood! Sure enough, we remembered that she hit her teeth on her bicycle handlebars when she was about 10 years old and he said that was probably it.

Freaky that the nerve could just die like that, years later.

You should definitely have a dentist look at it, just to get the right treatment. Since my teen's tooth was a permanent one, they had to do a root canal on it.

 

[liam's mom]

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Originally Posted by nonconformnmom Sure enough, we remembered that she hit her teeth on her bicycle handlebars when she was about 10 years old and he said that was probably it. Freaky that the nerve could just die like that, years later.

I actually fell off a stool in the kitchen when i was about 8 and was rushed to the emergency room. it was a really bad accident that affected my right front tooth. anyway, all was well until i was about 23 or 24--the tooth then started to discolor. i went in for a root canal and crown, and am now on my third crown in six years. ugh.

but yeah, it always amazed me how it took 15 years for the nerve damage to turn my tooth grey.

 

[mommyoftwo]

My dd's tooth turned grey a few months ago too. It was from a minor trauma. We took her to our dentist and they xrayed it. It doesn't necessarily mean it is dead. Hers ended up being bruised, believe it or not, and went back to its normal color. Get it checked out though-they said if it does die-it can abcess and cause pain.