Little Oscar O’Byrne’s mother, Tara, was very shocked when she checked her child’s crib one morning recently to discover that a little spike shaped tooth had appeared in her baby’s mouth overnight. Its perfectly normal for babies teeth to start showing at that age, but not a full-grown fang overnight!
She went to check on him early in the morning and tried to get him back to sleep, but he just wouldn’t stop crying, so she changed him and tried to feed him. That is when she noticed the little full grown fang in his mouth that had come in overnight.
Panic!
She brought him to a nearby hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, but wasn’t getting the proper care she desired as the doctors spent most of her visit debating about what it could be, rather than actually taking care of her son’s problem.
Frustrated and tired at the lack of treatment, she took her son to a nearby hospital instead called Temple Street Hospital, When she arrived, they had dentists look at her son.
Dentists to the rescue
They removed the fang. The mother had to hold him and his arms down during the process, which was traumatic for them all, to say the least. The tooth somehow ended up getting suctioned into his nose during removal, but at the end he was okay. The experience was over, thankfully.
There were several dentists in the room taking pictures of the oddity. It’s especially unique, considering the coincidence that it grew during October. We guess her son is a little vampire himself!
They kept the tooth for a future gift when the child’s old enough, a very unique first tooth indeed.
Not the only “vampire” out there
Another story in the Mirror in the same tune as this one is about a woman named Charlotte Bateman, a 49-year-old woman who, due to undiagnosed gum disease at the hands of irresponsible dentists, ended up with teeth that had been formed into fangs.
She raised multiple concerns about her teeth, but her dentists didn’t help her, similar to the first hospital in the story above.
She was very emotionally affected by this situation and embarrassed, saying she didn’t want to be seen in public and she spent her time avoiding social situations out of shame.
She’s a baker, a job in which she has a lot of one on one contact with her clients and her appearance is of the essence. This greatly affected her career and livelihood, leading her to form a lawsuit against her dentists for not doing anything to prevent this happening in the first place.
Even though her dentists did not admit liability to the status of her teeth, she won 25,000 in the lawsuit as compensation and to pay for treatments to fix her teeth.
She had raised many concerns throughout the years, and yet her dentists did nothing.
Since then, she has been diagnosed with severe periodontal disease via x-ray and has been told that her teeth had severe bone loss.
A happy ending
Now after all the legal fighting, she is finally going to get corrective treatment to fix the mistakes of dentists she had trusted had done to her.
She will still have to pay for implants and will lose a few teeth naturally, but all in all, she’s happy to finally be so close to being able to hold her head high and be truly confident again.
Her old dentists have refused to comment based on patient confidentiality but shes just glad for this all to be over so she can be healthy and happy with her smile again.
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