There is nothing the pediatrician can do. The ER can't do anything either unless they have a pediatric dentist on staff that has hospital priveldges. I would suggest that you go to your dentist. If he is to young and hasn't seen your family dentist then at least call him for an appointment or referral. If you don't have a family dentist then call a pediatric dientist and get him an appointment to have him evaluated.
Story: My sons, all 3 of them, were playing in the front yard with the neighborhood kids--eg: all neighborhood kids are in my yard which totaled about 8-9 boys in my yard playing. I wasn't out front as these kids are all 9-13 years old, but knew who was over and generally that they were playing, no fighting when I had last checked on them etc. Well, they were playing chicken in wagons a little later. One was a plastic little tykes wagon, the other a metal red radio flyer. Neither wagon was mine, but brought over by other kids. Well long story short. A handle of the plastic wagon hit a kid (13yr old) in the mouth, hung on his braces and extracted two front teeth...well one front tooth and the immediate tooth to the left, but not the canine. I am sure you get the picture. Well, the only reason the teeth weren't in the dirt in my frontyard was becasue his braces wire and brackets weren't torn or broken but were still attached to the teeth, dangling them in his mouth. But make no mistake they were extracted completely with the roots all the way out. There was alot of blood. I took him home, then we all went to the ER. After waiting for about an hour with an icepack, we were told that no dentist in town had priveldges at our local hospital. That his parents needed to call his family dentist. They did. The dentist met them at the clinic at 7:30 at night, for emergency root canals to place the teeth back in. The orthodontist saw him two days later after the swelling went down to check the wires and brackets. I am happy to say that his teeth are back in his head, braces are fine, teeth are fine. His parents tell me that he may still lose those teeth some time spontaneously or if he has anymore trauma to them. But for now, they are doing fine. With no side effects, other than being a little more careful playing stupid games.
Now, please know that we live in Stephenville. We have a rural hospital. Not Cooks Childrens or Dallas Childrens Hospital. One orthodontist, but about 6 dentists. 4 pediatricians. No pediatric dental specialists, that you may have access to in Ft. Worth. I would think that since he has also done it and it has been a day or two for the swelling to go down, that you won't need to go to the ER, but I would think you would still want to have them checked out anyway. Definately checked out by a dentist of some sort, pediatric or otherwise, specialist or not. I would if he were mine.
Anyways, keeping it sane in Stephenville,
L.
