The morning of the day I was to pick up Jill's kids to have them spend the night with us since she was going to girls camp, Brad comes in with a swollen lower jaw. It was rock hard and really hot so I just took him to our Pediatric Dentist. They got him right in and took x-rays. Nothing showed up for the lower teeth but when he looked in Brad's mouth he saw that he had broken a filling on his top baby molar and it had gotten infected and had traveled down to his lower jaw. Needless to say, it had to come out and Brad has been on an antibiotic since. When the dentist was pulling he was surprised at how hard it was to pull out and shocked to see the roots of this "baby" tooth after it was out. He said he wasn't expecting such big roots. I'll have to take Brad back in in a couple of weeks to see if he'll need a spacer put in.
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Yikes! Hopefully it will heal okay for him.
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