Mum’s urgent warning to parents about waterslides after daughter, 10, suffered horrific injuries while on holiday: ‘It was the biggest tooth injury they’d seen’
A mother has told how her daughter suffered serious injuries on a water slide
Her 10-year-old was walking the wrong way on the slide when she slipped
Landing face first, the child’s front teeth were smashed into her nasal cavity
She also lost a tooth, fractured her jaw and had major surgery
The mother said you should keep an eye on children on slides and never walk on them
Tiny Hearts Education shared tips on what to do if a child knocks out a tooth
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An Australian mother has shared how her daughter suffered horrific dental injuries after walking the wrong way on a waterslide
An Australian mother has warned parents to keep a close eye on children playing on slides after her daughter suffered horrific injuries.
The mother said her 10-year-old daughter climbed the wrong way on a water slide when she slipped and fell face forward, causing severe dental trauma that hospital staff said was the worst they had ever seen.
She shared her story with the parent group Tiny Hearts Education who gave important tips for parents if their child ever knocks out a tooth – also to prevent it from entering the water.
The woman warned parents to keep an eye on children playing on water slides after her daughter suffered the ‘greatest dental trauma the emergency hospital had ever seen’
The 10-year-old fell face first on the slide, knocking out one tooth, pushing the other up her nasal cavity and sustaining multiple fractures to her jawbone
“I am currently in pediatrics after my 10-year-old daughter suffered a terrible accident on a waterslide in a caravan park on Saturday,” the woman wrote in an Instagram post.
“I never thought our weekend away would end like this.”
She said her daughter was playing with her brother on a water slide when the couple started walking the wrong way up the slide.
Her brother slipped while taking his sister and she fell face first on the slide and smashed her two front teeth into her nose.
The 10-year-old lost an entire tooth that she spat into her mother’s hand and suffered multiple fractures to the alveolar bone in her jaw.
She had to undergo dental or maxillofacial surgery to bring down the teeth, implant the knocked-out tooth, splint the teeth, and get multiple stitches in her mouth.
The girl was left with only 70 percent of her jawbone and will most likely need a bone graft in the coming weeks.
“I certainly never thought that such injuries could come from walking down a waterslide, but the signs are there for a reason,” the mother said.
“This is the worst dental trauma the emergency hospital we went to has ever seen.”
Former paramedic and founder of Tiny Hearts Education Nikki Jurcutz revealed exactly what parents should do if their child ever knocks out a tooth in an accident.
The Queensland mother said she gripped the tooth only by the crown or smooth white part rather than by the root or pointed end.
If it’s dirty, don’t rinse the tooth with water – use milk or a saline solution for just a few seconds instead.
Similarly, store the tooth in milk, saline, or even saliva so it doesn’t dry out, and never try to put it back into the gums.