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Schoolboy’s front teeth knocked out – mum calls for ban on ‘idiotic’ playground game
Donna Fear, 42, was called by her 14-year-old son’s school on Monday after the teen’s face “bounced off the ground” while playing “Bump”.
Video of the incident shows a group of six boys using a tennis net to launch 14-year-old Tyler six feet into the air before he face-plants the ground forcing his glasses flying across the tarmac.
Tyler was left sprawled out on the ground “slathering” after smashing out one of his front teeth and snapping the other in half “as if cut by crinkled scissors”.
The boy now faces a future with the removable teeth until he can afford a more permanent solution.
Mum-of-two Donna later shared the shocking video online as a warning to other children not to take part in the “idiotic” game, which she is calling for schools to ban.
Donna, from Chorley, Lancashire, said: “He’s devastated, absolutely devastated. He knows he’s been an idiot.
“I would say to other kids ‘just watch his video and see if you want to try that yourself.
“It may be funny at the time, I would have probably done it at his age, but I just want to warn others and say don’t do it.
“These kinds of games spread around schools fast. It would pain me to see anybody else go through the same.”
“He has smashed his face up. He landed straight on his mouth without putting his hands down because his finger got stuck in the net.
“His face and all his lips are swollen, his chin’s all bruised and his hands are grazed. He’s struggling to talk and keeps slathering.
“He’s probably lost half a stone since Monday because he can’t eat properly.”
Tyler has now been off sick for four days and has been told he will need a denture fitted when the swelling goes down – as the NHS will not fund a dental implant.
His mum added: “I’m absolutely gutted that the dentist wants to give him a plate, like a false tooth, and they won’t do anything else.
“The NHS is not obliged to [give him an implant] because it was an accident.
“They did put the tooth in some milk, but it was only after we came back from the x-ray four hours later they said if it had been the first couple of hours they could have slotted it back in.”
It comes after the NHS had to pay out £3million pound after removing the wrong testicle.
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