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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

"All She Wants For Christmas Is Her Two Front Teeth!"

Okay, so about two weeks ago, Lani comes home from school
all excited to show me her
"new tooth". I'm thinking, "New
tooth? What?! She hasn't even
lost any yet!" I discover that she
has a tooth coming in way
behind where it should and it is completely missing her front baby tooth so that it can't
even push that one out!
I was kind of freaked out-
I'd never seen anything like it
before!
I called my friend
Lisa who is a Dental assistant. She assured me that my kid was not a "freak" and that this was fairly normal. She asked the Dentist and he said we could wait for
two weeks, if it didn't come out on it's
own, we could have it extracted. Well, it loosened but it didn't come out on it's own needless to say, and she had another one right next to it that
was very loose and ready to come out. So, we made the appointment for her to see the Dentist for the first time. Lani had been a little worried about her first trip ever to the dentist, but her fears were gone as soon as Lisa took us back. Lisa was wonderful to show her everything that they would be using on her and what each instrument's purpose was. It wasn't even 30 minutes before the Dentist had pulled both front teeth! I can't believe my baby has two missing teeth!

My beautiful friend Lisa prepping Lani's mouth for the extraction.


Lani is so into the movie on the screen above her, she doesn't even notice what's going on.
Okay, so it's only the bottom ones, but they're still in the front! Lani was so relieved! She now has no more fears of the Dentist! Thank you Lisa and Dr. Brown! You guys are awesome!

1 comment:

The Robisons said...

Look at that brave girl!! Wow, she's growing up! Even I'm getting a little nostalgic! Ahh.