Courtland's Teeth

This evening Courtland knocked his knee into his mouth while doing a backyard water fight with his brothers and then running onto the trampoline, and pushed his top front teeth backwards.  I know mouths bleed a lot, but this was by far the most blood I've ever seen from any of our kids' injuries.  Our friend Spencer Mauseth, who is a pediatric dentist, took X-rays and said Courtland fortunately doesn't have a root fracture, and there's only a slight chance that one of the teeth has a small fracture, which we're crossing our fingers will heal well because of his age. He has a flexible splint (which looks similar to braces on his front teeth) to keep his teeth in place while they get strong again, and we'll do checkups & X-rays every couple of weeks for a couple months, then monthly, then eventually we'll just have to do it again every year. He's hopeful that it will all heal well, but he said he'll need to monitor it carefully, we should feed him only smoothies for 2 weeks & carefully brush his teeth for him, and the teeth aren't out of the woods yet. He did say that often these things come back to bite people several years later. But I'd say it turned out really well overall.  And Courtland was feeling a lot better by the time it was all done -- but pretty sleepy by the end of the night too.  We're thankful for kind friends who are willing to give up hours of their time to help us out with this at night too!