My Poor Baby! :(

On Friday 6-15-07 I recieved a phone call from the daycare center that my daughter attends. They told me that my daughter had an accident there, they said that she got hurt bad, but that it wasn't bad, but her injury was bad. Makes no sense I know. So I asked what happened. They told me that during play time outside she was playing on one of those flat scooters and went to take a dive on to it with her belly and missed the scooter. She went face first into the pavement and broke out half of her front tooth. They asked me if it was a baby tooth since she is 6yrs old. I said yes all of her front teeth are permanent teeth. Then they said to me well we are supposed to inform you when your child gets hurt and we aren't sure if you want to get her now or wait until your usual time to pick her up. What the heck why wouldn't I pick up my child. I broke a tooth like that as a child and it hurts very bad. Why would I make her suffer until I got off of work? So I went and got her and I hunted all over town to a Dentist that would accecpt my insurance and fix it that same day. So many offices close early on Fridays that you would be surprised. I found one and we have to do their walk in appointment where you sit and wait with no guarantee that you'll be seen. On the positive side they told me that children are consider priority and are bumped up the the top of the walk in list. She had to suffer for 3 hours before being seen and to top it off the accident happened at 10:15 am which is before lunch. I got her to the Dentist at 11am and they didn't take any walk ins until 11:30am. That left me with no time to try to give her anything. It wasn't like she would have been able to eat anything any way because the tooth she broke was one of the top middle teeth. They did give her some juice so that she would have something in her stomach before they fixed her tooth. They capped it and told me that when she gets older she will need a crown and in the mean time to keep an eye on the tooth to make sure that it doesn't turn gray, because that means that the tooth as died or is dying. If it does she will need to see a specialist and ect. ect. it will cost a lot of money since my insurance won't cover that procedure. They told me that it is very possible the tooth could die since it sustaned extensive trauma and the root isn't finished forming. Well I hope for the best and so far so good. So I hope that this is it for that tooth until she is old enough for a crown. I was told that I should wait until she turns 16 or 17yrs old. I hope that tooth will make it.
Until next time I hope you all have a wonderful day. :)