Brooklyn had a blister like bump in her mouth. We let it go for quite awhile thinking it was just the beginning of a canker sore. Then it started to grow and would sometimes bleed. It stuck out of her mouth when she talked or smiled and she bit it very often. We went to the doctor and he said it is a common Mucocele. A fluid filled bump in the mouth caused by trauma to the saliva duct. When you hit your mouth sometimes you can damage a saliva duct and it is severed so the saliva collects under the skin in the mouth. Sometimes it would burst and go down for a few days but it always came back. After awhile it quite bursting and it was constantly a bump. So we decided it was time to consult an oral surgeon. He agreed that it was a Mucocele and said it's a simple procedure to remove the damaged saliva duct. So we decided to have it removed.
Here are some pictures of Brooklyn's lip before the removal.
It's a walrus!!! Brooklyn was not very happy with me for taking the picture and calling her a walrus!
Still numb!!!
Day 1
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Day 6
Now...it's all better!
After the oral surgeon, Mark Elison whom we absolutely love in case you ever need to use one we think he is the best, removed the bump he sent it to pathology just to be safe. A week later he got the results. Well, it wasn't a Mucocele it was actually a Pyogenic Granuloma, basically a benign tumor. How scary is that? Glad we got it taken care of and her lip looks wonderful, even though the above picture makes her lip look huge it's really not.
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