A few weeks ago, Ryan elegantly lept off the lounge chair and managed to land squarely on his front right top tooth - a skillful maneuvere if I do say so myself. We've watched it over the last couple of weeks change from bright white to a nice off white before it decided to settle on a fetching shade of grey. I'd also noticed that one of his back teeth had something resembling what my untrained eye thought to be a hole. Obviously a trip to the dentist was in order.
The general dentist we see caught sight of his front tooth and decided that we'd need to add a Peadiatric Dentist to our ever expanding list of specialists. Fantastic. The PD took one look in Ryan's mouth and quickly ran in to another room to order that BMW he's had his on eye on for a while (well, not really but I'm sure he did it as soon as we'd left...) The official diagnosis is yes, it is a hole - Ry apparently has a weak spot on his molars, most likely caused by his prematurity.
So now I need to make an appointment for him to have a general anaesthetic to have his cavity filled, his 3 other molars "sealed" to prevent them developing holes and possibly, depending on how much worse his front tooth is in 6 weeks time, root canal on his damaged front tooth.
I hope the tooth fairy reimburses us substantially when the time comes because God knows our health insurance isn't being all that generous.
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Sure does sound expensive!
Hope all goes as well as it can.
Emily had one of those lovely fetching grey front teeth. It fell out just before she was 6, and she did the damage when she was 2.5. Although it looked terrible, there was no damage at all to the adult tooth (which is what the dentists get concerned about). Fingers crossed that you have the same story with Ryan. As for the filling and sealing I am sure it will be fine :)
Argh bugger!
Lets hope that's put his Superman escapades back a notch, eh?
I have a sneaky feeling that the aformentioned tooth fairy may be too busy riding in the dentist's new BMW (convertible, I might add) to give you poor mugs a backward thought....
Hope all goes well with the upcoming diagnosis!!
ohh....my word verification is rather close to a swear word - fackera - am thinking it may become my new word of the moment......stay cool, you 'fackera'!!! :P
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