It can seem anything but minor to parents, however, as the injured site will bleed every time the lip is pulled out to examine it.
"That's why in the symptom-checker, if you go to 'mouth trauma' it's all spelled out for them," says Barton Schmitt, MD, the creator of one of the world's first online symptom-checker platforms currently used on more than 200 hospitals' and physicians' websites. "It tells parents, just stop looking at it, it always heals." Click here to read more.
