Moms

Moms, do you know what it takes to save your child’s knocked-out tooth?

Bruises, boo-boos and even broken bones heal — but a knocked-out tooth can become a permanent loss in as quickly as 15 minutes. And 1 in 4 children (that’s 5 million each year!) experience dental trauma. Are you prepared to act?

Time is ticking on your child’s tooth

Believe it or not, you only have 15 minutes to act before the tooth begins to die, and even then, without the right protection for that tooth, your child has only a 1 in 10 chance for a successful re-implantation at the dentist. Once that window has passed, your child may end up waiting until he’s 18 before any permanent solution can be done — because children’s jaws continue to grow and their teeth shift through early adulthood.

Milk does a body good, but not a tooth!

And the right protection DOESN’T include milk. Milk has none of the metabolite nutrients required to keep a tooth alive, so the tooth cells start to die within 15 minutes. And anyway, what sort of milk? Whole milk? 2%? Skim? Half-n-Half? Chocolate Almond Soy? We certainly have no idea and we’re dental professionals — as far as we can tell from the research and our decades-long experience, using milk is just an old wive’s tale and simply doesn’t work.

About the only thing going for milk is that it’s better than using water or moistened tissues which almost always result in tooth death. Why choose second-best for your child’s health, when the risk is leaving him toothless until he’s 18?

Don’t be touchy-feely when it comes to teeth

The tooth root is incredibly delicate and even the slightest finger pressure causes cell death. If you touch the root, you’re killing the tooth’s regenerative cells.

Now, if you put the tooth in any liquid that does not match that of the tooth’s native environment, tooth cell death will begin almost immediately. And it gets worse with the tooth sitting in a glass being slammed about against the hard glass surface during transport to the dentist, often causing more damage to the delicate root system than the original traumatic injury that knocked the tooth out in the first place! So you need a way to protect the tooth from further injury as well as provide it with essential nutrients and a safe way to travel.

With Save-A-Tooth®, you can easily preserve that tooth for upwards of a full day, giving you vital time to get both child and tooth to your dentist or the emergency room. The Save-A-Tooth® not only provides the nutrients tooth root cells need to stay alive, it also effectively cushions the tooth in a carrying case designed specifically for teeth. In fact, Moms who use Save-A-Tooth® raise the chances of permanently saving their child’s tooth to over 90%. That’s especially important because the most common place dental injury occurs is at home.

It’s cheap, and it stores with your home first aid kit

What’s more, Save-A-Tooth® is incredibly inexpensive and can be readily stored with your home emergency first aid kit. Further, thousands of schools and day care centers are required by various local laws to carry Save-A-Tooth® as part of their emergency medical kits (Is your child’s school one of them? Ask the school nurse!), so this is a well-known and valuable way to prevent injury from becoming unnecessarily permanent.

Isn’t your child’s smile worth $25 ? Learn more about how to use your Save-A-Tooth®, or buy yours today.