if your child comes home from practicing their sport and has knocked out a tooth, you need to know what to do about it. you want to make sure that your child continues to have a tooth there. so, what should you do?
you want to carefully rinse off the tooth. don't scrub off the tooth, just rinse it off under some gently running cool water. do not hold the tooth by the root. holding the tooth by root can damage the root and can cause the tooth to not heal.
gently try to put the tooth back into the socket. the best place for the tooth is in the socket and 