What do you do when a child bust's out his adult tooth?

Well lets just say we had an interesting Friday night. The afternoon started out normal kids playing in the yard, i was about to start cooking a late dinner. I hear a scream and turn around and Ayden my middle son who is 6 had tried to slam dunk the basketball by climbing on the side of the pole and got his tooth caught in the wood around the net. All you see is blood everywhere, i rushed him inside clean his mouth out and realize his entire front tooth root an all is gone and a huge cut straight thru his gums to his bottom. My sister saw the tooth laying in the dirt we grabbed it and ran to the emergency. Where we live at we have a small er, after we got there the doctor called Shands of gainseville and we were transferred there to the emergency oral surgery department. Before i tell the end of my night let me tell you a few things you should know if your childs permanent tooth gets knocked out.

1.  Grab the tooth, rinse in warm water for 10 seconds

2.   Dip the tooth in milk,  yes you heard me milk.

3. Gently put tooth back in spot

4. Have child bite down on rolled up clean washcloth.

5. head to the nearest children's hospital


  We did not know any of these things before this happened. Now our son may loose the tooth that was put back in surgically last night. We had no clue that we should the tooth in milk or the try and set it back in ourselves. Finally  the oral surgeon came in and she was wonderful, they had to clean and scrape the tooth, clean and scrap the gum and then put the tooth back in the gaping hole. Because he cut his gum so badly we has metal braces holding the tooth in and also a few stitches  on his gum to close the hole. Now we wait and see if the nerves grow back in and the ligaments fuse together. We will be seeing alot of the dentist over the next two months. So if your parent please please follow the list above and hopefully if this ever happenes to you, you can prevent the pain and numerous surgery's  that we couldn't.


1.  Grab the tooth, rinse in warm water for 10 seconds

2.   Dip the tooth in milk,  yes you heard me milk.

3. Gently put tooth back in spot

4. Have child bite down on rolled up clean washcloth.

5. head to the nearest children's hospital