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Chipped Tooth
So yall, we all know I have had “mom fails” probably since the day Nishay was born. But nothing so traumatic as this one…
This past week, my poor baby was trying to run and in her excitement tripped and fell face first; resulting in a chipped tooth, busted lip and bleeding gums. Now I held it together while I was consoling my poor baby, cleaning up blood, and putting ice on her lip. But the way I cried later that night once I was in bed is probably ridiculous in hindsight lol.
But the trauma didn’t stop there because early the next morning, I started making moves to schedule an emergency appointment and have Nishay’s teeth further evaluated. I didn’t go to work anticipating that they would be able to get me an early appointment and afterwards we would go to work/daycare. So let me start by sharing this is a brand new dentist and don’t have initial cleaning appointments until October. And while I understand that we are new patients, emergency situations should trump but instead the foolery I dealt with was crazy. It took about 45min just to get someone on the phone from the new dentist office only for them to tell me that because we are new patients they couldn’t see her for an emergency appointment. When I continued to explain my situation, including why we were coming to them as new patients, the person on the phone went as far to say that there was nothing they could do and her suggestion was to take my daughter to the ER so they can give her some painkillers. I all but cursed that lady out, what painkillers are they giving an 18mon old???
I then attempted to call several other places with no luck on getting an appointment. And yes you guessed it, the tears started rolling down my face and then came the ugly cry. I don’t think Nishay knew what to do, so she started whining too. After getting myself together, I was finally able to reach 1 location that would see us and while they didn’t accept our insurance were willing to let me pay out of pocket for this visit. Thankfully, the dentist said it was the best case scenario and probably aesthetics related. There was no nerve damage, the gums had already started to heal and the tooth wasn’t sharp. She stated that because it was her baby teeth and she would lose them in a few years, it didn’t make sense to put Nishay through any procedure to fix it.
It wasn’t long until my little girl got her bounce back and proved to still be her silly, wild, loving, and independent self! She acts as if nothing happened, however the chipped tooth seems to be a daily reminder to me of what happened and more important how extremely blessed this child is!