This post requires a little background information. When Brynnli was about 18 months old she was climbing the play set outside and fell off and knocked her front tooth loose. I took her into our previous dentist, and without doing a thorough check up, he determined that her tooth was fine, but that we should look for signs of yellow discoloring. Well fast forward about a year and a half and a new dentist. I took all of the kids in for their routine cleanings back in December and I asked our new dentist if Brynn's tooth looked yellow. I had also noticed that despite brushing her teeth, she frequently had really bad breath. The dentist started examining her teeth and found an infection spot above the tooth that had been knocked loose. After doing an x-ray he told me that the baby tooth was dying and needed to be pulled out. I told him no. He had to find another way to fix it. He was very patient with me, but basically told me there was nothing else to do if we didn't want to risk possibly causing damage to the permanent tooth. I left the appointment in tears and sat in the car for a long time bawling, trying to explain things to Tyler. This was a rough time for our family, with a lot of things going on with Hannah staying at our house, so what would normally be a bad situation, was devastating. Well fast forward a few months, and although I was not entirely (and am still not) happy about the situation, we decided to have Brynn's baby tooth pulled.
Here she is on the morning of her appointment. We tried to explain as best we could what would happen that day, but Brynnli didn't really understand any of it.
We decided to have her put out so the whole experience would be less traumatic for her. They gave her a shot that kind of put her out and then they carried her back to the room to do the IV sedation. After literally 15 minutes (and $300 later in anesthesia out of pocket costs) we were finally able to go back to see her. The procedure went great and the dentist said there was an infection pocket that came out with the tooth.
Brynn was hilarious coming out of anesthesia. She was slurring her words and really making no sense.
After about an hour, she was cleared to go home. She watched a movie and was perfectly fine. She really didn't even notice that her tooth was gone.
The next night we put her tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy to get and leave her a surprise. Brynn didn't really understand what was going on, so she didn't want to put her tooth under her pillow. Despite us trying to reassure her, Brynn was "very scared of the toof fairy".
The next morning, however, Brynn was excited to see the tooth fairy brought her a coloring book, crayons, and some money.
Then just a few days later, Makayla's front tooth was getting really loose. She really wanted to lose her tooth at school because she could pick out a tooth necklace. Well on Friday, February 23rd, Makayla came bouncing in the house from school to show me her toothless grin. She lost it at school and got the necklace she had been wanting.
I never thought both of my girls would lose their front tooth at the same time. Look how cute they are!
A few days later Brynn went in to get her fake tooth put in. Daddy took her in because we knew it would be a rough procedure. Brynn was great at the beginning watching a show
However, the rest of the appointment didn't go that well. I guess Brynnli screamed the whole time and it took Tyler, the dentist, and the assistant to hold her down. But in the end they got it in...
Unfortunately this is the story that doesn't end. The next day the band around her tooth broke and we had to go back in to have them take the whole thing out. It took a few weeks for them to fix it and when we went back in (a much better appointment this time) the band didn't fit, so they had to send it back again. Hopefully when we get the tooth back in a few weeks it will actually fit this time.
In the mean time, the tooth fairy better be saving up her money because our kids are losing teeth pretty fast around here!
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