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Mum calls for 'idiotic' playground game to be banned after son, 14, smashes front teeth out

A mum is calling for a playground game dubbed 'Bump' to be banned after her son was left dribbling from smashing his front teeth out. 

Mum-of-two Donna Fear, 42, was called by her son Tyler's school on Monday after the teen's face 'bounced off the ground' while playing the game.

The clip 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 and his glasses fly across the tarmac.

Tyler has been left 'slathering' after smashing out one of his front teeth and snapping the other in half leaving it looking 'as if cut by crinkled scissors'. 

His mum has shared the shocking video as a warning to other children not to take part in the 'idiotic' game and calling for schools to ban it.

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 kind of games spread around schools fast. It would pain me to see anybody else go through the same."

After landing 'straight on his mouth', the schoolboy was taken to Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Lancashire, where he waited four hours for a jaw x-ray.

While he hadn't broken any bones, it confirmed one of his front teeth had been knocked clean out from the root.

Among other injuries, the schoolboy has suffered severe bruising to his face and mouth, leaving him unable to eat properly.

Donna said: "He'd done it once and landed on his feet, but the bl***y idiot did it again.

"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.

"He's knocked one of his front teeth clean out from the root. His other tooth is only half there and it's like it's been cut diagonally with crinkly scissors.

Tyler, 14, recovering at home with his mum (Kennedy News and Media)

"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.

The front tooth that Tyler knocked out when he headbutted the floor (Kennedy News and Media)

He faces a future with the removable teeth until he can afford a more permanent solution.

"I'm absolutely gutted that the dentist want to give him a plate, like a false tooth, and they won't do anything else.

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"The NHS are 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."

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