Warning this post contains a yucky tooth/gum picture!!!!
Some of you may remember back in 2004 when Wuffy fell at nursery whislt holding a recorder. Being only 13 months the recorder hit the floor before he did and as the other end was in his mouth it made a pretty good mess of one of his front teeth. This resulted in a general anaesthetic on Christmas Eve to remove the tooth.
Some while later what looked like a tooth began to appear in the gap, the dentist had a look and said it was clearly some root that had remained in the gum when they removed the tooth. We were actually at a loss to understand how they left some root when he was under a general anaesthetic, surely they could have made sure it all came out. The gum was already damaged and they had to put stitches in it so a bit more exploration would have been possible.
So this root has been there for over three years, it isn’t white and looks a bit yucky but the dentist has kept saying that it is doing a good job as it is keeping the gap open. Apparently teeth are lazy and will happily fall into a gap that appears. So at least there will be a gap for his big boy tooth when it appears.
Last weekend Wuffy suddenly announced that he had something sticking out of his gum. We had a look and this is what we could see
I’ve moved this down a bit otherwise it is instantly visible meaning the warning is useless 
We went to the doctor who simply said it was nothing to do with him, he clearly was not at all interested and just said go to the dentist. Ok so we went to the dentist. He said he needed to take an x-ray to see what it was. He told Wuffy he would be taking an x-ray and it would be black and white, then he said that’s before your time. To which Wuffy replied “I know what an x-ray is it’s a picture of your bones”. We all had to go right to the end of the room and Wuffy laid in the chair holding the film in his teeth whilst the x-ray was taken. He didn’t move at all and was very very brave.
Once the picture was developed the dentist could see that the bit sticking out is actually the other end of that piece of root!! Clearly the piece they left in his gum was huge. When he damaged the tooth it had lifted upwards and twisted ripping his gum, the root left is obviously still on an angle hence it is now breaking through the gum. The dentist is not worried and said it should be fine until his other teeth come through, we just need to keep an eye on it.
The x-ray was great we could see two rows of teeth, it was a bit weird seeing all of Wuffy’s big boy teeth lined up waiting to make an entrance. At least we know they are there and seem to be in the right place Wuffy asked if he could take the x-ray home but unfortunately the dentist said no he needed to keep it on his file.
In other news Wuffy’s Grandad is in hospital. He went in last weekend for an operation on his hand, the op took over 6 hours and although it seemed to go OK he has been struggling ever since. He is having problems with both his blood pressure (very high) and his kidneys (not working as they should). At the moment we are just waiting for an MRI scan which they seem to be a bit slow in organising!! Wuffy made him a get well card yesterday which we need to get in the post.
