I thought my little boy, 7, had a wobbly tooth until his cheek swelled up like a tennis ball

WHEN seven-year-old Freddie Kreyling complained of a "wobbly tooth", his parents thought it "a little bit peculiar".

James Kreyling, 40, and his wife Charlotte, 47, inspected their son's mouth in May this year and realised it wasn't a baby tooth bothering him.

In fact, the culprit was an adult tooth at the back of Freddie's mouth

The next morning, the parents, from Hadleigh, Essex, noticed swelling inside their son's mouth.

They immediately took him to the dentist, who X-rayed his teeth and prescribed antibiotics.

When things didn't improve, James took Freddie back to the dentist, who said his mouth was “very abnormal”.

After a month of tests and antibiotics, during which time his jaw “swelled like a tennis ball”, Freddie was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma – an aggressive but trea