Dr. Soheel Hussain Zargar
Dentistry
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Patient's Query
Hi doctor,
I took my 4-year-old daughter to the dentist yesterday as two days back she fell and they said she had fractured her front tooth and it is loose. I am worried it will fall out and I really do not want it to also with it being fractured if it does come out I am worried a part of the tooth will still be left behind. What can I do? With my daughter being so young is it possible to cap the tooth or do something to fix it? Also, if there is an option to fix it, I am looking for something that is not going to be too much or too painful for her.
Hi,
Welcome to icliniq.com.
Do not worry. I have gone through your query and would like to tell you that it is a milk tooth and even if it is removed (due to severe mobility), we can give space maintainer, but I will have to see the X-ray and clinical photo of the tooth to guide you properly. No such serious effect will be there as the permanent tooth will anyways erupt there. An X-ray is definitely necessary to check whether there is any damage to the following permanent tooth within the bone.
Secondly, if there is pulp exposure alone, we can do pulpectomy (like RCT) and if just enamel or dentin fracture, we can either smoothen the margins or fill it with tooth-colored cement. As I said, it is just milk tooth that will anyways be replaced by permanent tooth, be totally relaxed. The situation is totally manageable and no permanent effect is going to be there on the child.
Patient's Query
Thank you doctor,
I have no idea. They just said that it was fractured and if they are the worse grade, can they still be fixed?
Hi,
Welcome back to icliniq.com.
They can be fixed if not too much mobile. You visit nearby pedodontist. He will definitely try to solve it.
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