Dental Disaster

Yesterday Emry and Calum went to the dentist! Emry has a tooth that has been bothering her, because she does have a cavity! Calum had his first happy visit last year and did amazingly so this year we felt he was ready to get his teeth cleaned! That was a foolish thought! This tough guy sure is a scaredy cat!! We first watched Emry have x-rays done and he ran out saying " I can't watch, it's going to be so awful!" When it was his turn he sat in the dentist chair and instantly clamped his hands over his mouth and his eyes! He was terrified that the light was going to burn his eyes, and he was sure the tools they put in his mouth were going to make him puke! The hygienist told him she wouldn't turn the light on and let him look at all her tools, which really helped him to be less afraid and he let her look in his mouth! Then it came time to polish! She let him touch the tool and he giggled because it tickled, he thought it was pretty cool and let her put it on his mouth, until he tasted the polish! That was it and he freaked out! The dentist was able to at least look at his teeth and said they looked really healthy with no cavities! He does have a cross bite that will need to be corrected after be turns eight but before he turns ten!

Emry has other issues that will need to be fixed later on too. Her eye teeth on the bottom have not yet come in and should have before some of the other teeth have. So has lost arch space on the bottom and she'll need to have braces to widen and move all those teeth forward. And on the top she'll have to have braces to move all her teeth back, she will also have to have some molars removed to allow the teeth to move back. The dentist said it was an unusual case because her molars match up when she bites, probably because she missing her eye teeth! Other than that she did great, as always!!