On a Sunday afternoon in late January 2025, I got a call from my son who lives in Grosse Pointe Michigan, about an hour away from where I live in Clarkston. He told me that my eight-year-old grandson was playing pond hockey, wearing no helmet or mouthguard, and took a puck right to the two front teeth, breaking the incisal, 1/3 to 1/2 of both teeth. He said “Dad, there’s a dentist near me.” I said, “There are 6,000 dentists in Michigan, but he’s coming to see me!”
The following Monday, I saw my grandson at my office in Auburn Hills. We took some X-rays, as shown on the digital panoramic. As I examined intraorally, I could see the top of the pulp chamber had been removed and on both teeth, I was looking at pulpal tissue, nerves, and blood vessels. While exposed, the tissue was not hemorrhagic. READ MORE.
