For those of you who have been lucky(?) enough to live by us for the last year and a half or so... you know that Zoie fell in Paris and literally cracked about 1/3 of her front tooth off. (The poor girl also has a kind of webbed tooth on the bottom- two of her teeth are fused together and look like one big old mutant tooth).
Well, it's been bothering her recently, so I brought her into the Dentist last week a couple of times.
It was a nightmare getting her to cooperate with x-rays etc. (When we first went in, the Dr. put her in the X-ray chair and handed her a little white rectangle, and asked her to "bite down on this". I shot him a look like, "you have obviously NEVER been around a two year old before", and Zoie promptly stuck the x-ray card down her shirt.
Anyway, they finally sealed it, but couldn't tell us why it was bothering her.
A couple days ago, I noticed that there was a little white pearl looking blob in her gum above that tooth... So I brought her in AGAIN!
The dentist took one look at that thing and said- "this has got to come out!"
The TOOTH, that is!
So, yesterday we had the pleasure of assisting Zoie- a TWO year old, in getting multiple injections into an already inflamed and engorged gum, and then getting her tooth manually removed- while she was awake. It wasn't easy, they finally had to strap her down to one of those little papoose boards. :(
What a nightmare for all involved. The poor girl, she just kept looking at us like, "why are you doing this to me!"
Got to get a picture of her new smile... she looks like even more of a Hockey player than before!
2 comments:
Poor baby! She's so stinkin' cute that it doesn't matter. My tooth looked just like that after the little snowboarding incident! At least, she'll get a new one in 5 or 6 years! Sounds like it was so painful, though. Why couldn't they just give her gas or something to put her out?
They actually tried that, but she didn't get what was going on and was screaming her head off... so obviously she wasn't breathing through her nose, so they put it on her mouth, but she was just spazzing out. That's when they brought out the papoose!
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