I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but Logan has a purple tooth. His upper right front tooth has been swollen and purple for about 5 weeks now. I called the clinic at about the 3 week mark and they said if there are no ulcers in his mouth, he's not running a fever and he's acting normal (i.e. eating and pooping) then not to worry it would come through eventually. Well we decided after another two weeks that we should have it looked at. So I took him in yesterday and the doctor said it's a cyst that's formed over his gum's where the tooth should erupt through. The doctor called X-ray right away because he wanted to see if there was in fact a tooth under his gum's or if it was an empty cyst. And if there was a tooth there he wanted to see if it was coming in correctly or if it was coming in at an angle. So after two X-rays he said things looked good, but he wanted the radiologist to confirm that everything looks good. So hopefully sometime today the doctor will call back and let us know if things look good. If he does call and things look good then it's a waiting game again. He said to wait another three weeks and if the tooth hasn't erupted by then, then we should take him in to see a dentist. We should take him to a dentist mainly because he said we just don't know what's going on, why the tooth won't erupt and they would be better able to identify why.
The important thing is that Logan's not in pain. Now we'll just have to wait and hope that the tooth erupts soon!
2 comments:
Oh that sounds scary! But as long as he's not in any pain.
Nick just got one of his top teeth this week - only it's not one of the front teeth, it's the next one over. Wierd. I guess my son has already decided not to follow the rules. =)
Dude... so glad it was nothing. That would wig me out too. It seems like these kids never stop teething, doesn't it?? Layla just got her molars!!!
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