Lost Tooth

My beautiful son has finally lost his front tooth.  After four years of struggling to keep the tooth in his head, I pulled it out today.  For those who don't know, Adam was tripped viciously by my yogroundngest sister Llaurel when he was a mere two years old.  She threw him down on the ground at my parents home.  If that wasn't enough, Mom was renovating the house and had pulled all the carpet up, so when my small little toddler was tripped and thrown onto the ground his face met concrete.  He had a huge gapping hole in his lip, we could see the fatty tissue and his tounge was a mess.  There was a rush to the ER and we were told to go home, not any thing they could do for mouth wounds.  Three months later we had an emergancy visit to the dentist who promptly removed his front right tooth.  He had developed an abcess. 

It gets better, a week later he tripped himself coming down the stairs and smacked his face once more, this time on the tile of our kitchen floor.  Again we had the bloody pulpy mess of a mouth and his left tooth was hanging by a thread.  I promptly shoved that tooth back into his head and again we rushed to the dentist.  They gave antibiotics and we prayed for the best.  The tooth got firm again and we saved his tooth!!!  It took work though.  Numerous times that dang tooth has gotten loose and he has stopped messing with it and it has firmed back up.  Last year at the dentist when they took his exrays, we discovered that he had no root to the tooth and only tissue was holding it firmly in place.

Now four years have past since we lost his baby tooth to the concrete...it was a bittersweet loss.  He messed and messed with the darn thing, and I was once again asked by my child to help pull the tooth.  Now this is the cool part.  We got the tooth out and upon inspection discovered that it was hollow.  Very cool.  And Ader's mouth, there is a pretty prominent piece of gum tissue hanging down.  It is the tissue that had grown into the tooth to keep it in place.  Now my son is toothless, but he has a weird gum thing hanging down where a tooth should be.  

*Incidently, Llaurel swears Adam tripped over his too big boots, but we all know what really happend.....