ANOTHER new week!
Last week became the week of the dentists!
Monday M lost one of her teeth (#6!). That night she showed me that her gums were very swollen near one of her molars. It was the size of a marble! I called the dentist and got her in the following day at 2. I check again before she went to bed and it was still swollen, but now looked like it was coming to a head?!?! By morning it was still red and angry looking, but no longer the size of a marble. I sent her to school with a note and picked her up at 1:30.
We get to the dentist and she finds that it is abscessed and has burst (SHe found the hole) Ew. An x-ray confirms that her adult molar is trying to come in, but her baby molar is firmly in place. The space in between has a significant pocket of ew. The baby molar will need to come out. M is NOT happy. SHe flat out REFUSES even though the dentist and I am willing and able to it immediately. She BEGS us to let her come back in the morning to have it done. Against our better judgement, we agree and set her up to return at 9AM.
Wednesday there is no school, and my In Laws are AWESOME so I take the other 2 kids over there and then on to the dentist with M. She is confident and in a fairly good mood. Only squirmed a bit with the novacaine, and was SO brave during the extraction process, which took under 2 minutes after the meds took effect. M agrees that we contact the tooth fairy to come the following night so that she can take her very cool looking molar with roots still attached to school.
Lots of packing changes, antibiotics and a bit of motrin and she is well enough to go to dance class and church that night.
Thursday the girls are off to school then its the boy's turn to go to his dentist for a filling. Laughing gas and novacain for him as well.
Friday it my turn. I get 3 fillings, and the one we were worried about was NOT deep enough to require an other root canal.
Later this week, we start on the crowns. Can't be the princess of everyday adventures with out them! LOL!
Still no word from the hospital about my impending surgery, but knock on wood, I"ve been feeling pretty good!!
Monday M lost one of her teeth (#6!). That night she showed me that her gums were very swollen near one of her molars. It was the size of a marble! I called the dentist and got her in the following day at 2. I check again before she went to bed and it was still swollen, but now looked like it was coming to a head?!?! By morning it was still red and angry looking, but no longer the size of a marble. I sent her to school with a note and picked her up at 1:30.
We get to the dentist and she finds that it is abscessed and has burst (SHe found the hole) Ew. An x-ray confirms that her adult molar is trying to come in, but her baby molar is firmly in place. The space in between has a significant pocket of ew. The baby molar will need to come out. M is NOT happy. SHe flat out REFUSES even though the dentist and I am willing and able to it immediately. She BEGS us to let her come back in the morning to have it done. Against our better judgement, we agree and set her up to return at 9AM.
Wednesday there is no school, and my In Laws are AWESOME so I take the other 2 kids over there and then on to the dentist with M. She is confident and in a fairly good mood. Only squirmed a bit with the novacaine, and was SO brave during the extraction process, which took under 2 minutes after the meds took effect. M agrees that we contact the tooth fairy to come the following night so that she can take her very cool looking molar with roots still attached to school.
Lots of packing changes, antibiotics and a bit of motrin and she is well enough to go to dance class and church that night.
Thursday the girls are off to school then its the boy's turn to go to his dentist for a filling. Laughing gas and novacain for him as well.
Friday it my turn. I get 3 fillings, and the one we were worried about was NOT deep enough to require an other root canal.
Later this week, we start on the crowns. Can't be the princess of everyday adventures with out them! LOL!
Still no word from the hospital about my impending surgery, but knock on wood, I"ve been feeling pretty good!!
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