F fell Monday at school and hit the edge of the table. Fortunately her top tooth stayed in her mouth. Unfortunately it punctured the skin right below her bottom lip.
It hasn’t slowed her down a bit, although it changes colors everyday which means she does linger at the mirror a bit more in the morning. Time to wake her up now and see what it looks like this morning.
One interesting thing we noticed. She’s talking a lot more about her teeth now since the accident, and I think she’s a little bummed out that the tooth didn’t come out. She’s kind of obsessed with the idea of putting a tooth under her pillow. She’s always said “toof” for tooth, but yesterday when I got home M had her tell me the story about when you lose a tooth and she said “tooth” with a very clear th sound at the end. I remember those first pronunciations slowly disappearing with E as she grew and how sad they made me. I love the fact that at eight and a half she still says “ambliance” instead of ambulance. A tiny wisp of the chatty toddler she used to be. F says the letter “s” at the end of words but not the beginning. I know I’ll be a little wistful when “cool” and “nack” and “cary” become school and snack and scary. I won’t, however, be sad to see that mouth shiner go. Ouch.
Hi! I realize this is an old post but I’m looking for some help and came across this. My son bit through his bottom lip 2 weeks ago and is now getting hard scar tissue in his lip
Wondering if this happened to your little one and if it got better or flatten out? Is it noticeable to others? Thanks so much !
To be honest, I had completely forgotten about this injury. It healed really well, and I can’t seen any trace of it at all. I can’t remember if we treated it in anyway, other than maybe putting vaseline on it as it healed, but that would just be a guess. I’ve always found that injuries to the mouth heal fairly quickly and pretty well, at least for my girls.
Hope his is the same. Maybe reach out to your pediatrician to see if there’s something topical you can use to reduce scarring? We’ve had really good luck with a topical on knee injuries that have reduced the scarring quite a bit, but near the mouth is trickier!