Cracked Tooth

Thursday Mikayla went on a field trip to the state capital.  I was not able to go on the field trip because I had to work.  When I got off work, I went to the school to pick up the girls.  Before I even got to the school, Mikayla called me to tell me that she cracked her tooth on the field trip.  I asked her if it hurt and how she cracked her tooth.  She said it did not hurt and that she was eating a cracker and then she felt something not right.  Later on in the day, she went into the bathroom, looked in a mirror and saw the cracked tooth.  She showed her chaperon and her long term substitute teacher, and they both said "that's bad."  Well that did not help the situation, because then Mikayla felt bad.  She said she was so upset, she just wanted to cry, and she starred out the window on the bus ride all the way home.

Long story short.  I tried to call the dentist Thursday afternoon, but at 4:39pm they were already closed for the day.  So  Friday morning, I called the dentist and told them what had happened.  On the phone, the dentist thought that it was probably a permanent tooth and that she would have to undergo a 2 hour procedure to repair the tooth.

 Luckily when we got to the dentist, they took some x-rays and discovered the problem was not as bad as previously thought.  Apparently, Mikayla's teeth just do not want to fall out.  Her permanent tooth had pushed through her baby tooth and yet the baby tooth never fell out.  So what happened was, the outside of the baby tooth cracked, and the permanent tooth was inside of it.  Some where during the process the bottom half of the tooth fell off, we assume she swallowed it, and then the remaining shell of the baby tooth cracked.  So the dentist had to give her laughing gas (Nitrous Oxide), numb her mouth up and extract the cracked baby tooth off of the permanent tooth.  The good news,  the tooth was not a permanent tooth.  The bad news, she has one other tooth doing the same exact thing, and if it's not out by Wednesday, she will have to have the same thing done again.  I guess her teeth just don't want to leave her!

Mikayla took some pictures of herself after the procedure on the way home to send to John.  Here she is with her numbed up mouth with gauze in it.