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health advisory Hospital Dentists Yu 2007-11-11 18:18:49

My son is 3 1/2 and had a fall resulting in trauma to the two front teeth. They are now slightly discolored. This occured 6 weeks ago. Will the discoloration fade?

Answer:

No. The discolouration means that the teeth are dying and may need to eventually be pulled. There's nothing you can do to prevent it now that the injury has occurred.

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Ask his dentist. Those teeth could need to be pulled and replaced. This happened to me when I was nine and until they were pulled, I was in a great deal of pain.

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The same thing happened to my son and my dentist said that the teeth are either bruised or dead, but not to worry because it will not effect his permanent teeth. The discoloration will not fade...my sons has gotten darker.

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You have a 50- 50 chance this will go away. When he whacked it that affects the blood supply to the tooth and discolors it. It depends on the dental pulp that is attached to the tooth. The differents colors (yellow, brown , greenish, black) it turns mean things like infection, dead pulp etc..

I have 3 boys :) You do need to get him into the dentist to make sure he doesn't need it pulled if one is infected now. The dentist will tell you which type of damage and how the enamel color will be. Otherwise the permanant teeth can be messed up- very affected.

Anita if your childs teeth are getting darker read this-