Friday, December 9, 2011

Dentist

Today was Adeline's first visit to the dentist. We've been going over what it would be like for days now so I thought she'd do great.
Boy was I wrong.

She was a spaz from the moment we walked in the door, which she usually is whenever she goes someplace new. Right about now I'm engineering my escape plan.

In addition to the anxiety currently flowing through my body, every staff member asked me about the baby I was carrying. They didn't notice the one on my back. So when I moved or turned around, they'd exclaim 'oh you have two'. Yep. But here's the kicker, they would then tell me to do it again, like a magic trick, make a second baby appear on my back. Really people? Do it again?

Back to the dentist story.
The exam room was underwater themed, super cute with beaded jellyfish hanging from the ceiling. Adi starts looking nervous around this time. But I'm holding out hope that she can pull through.

The dental assistant, bless her heart, probably does not get paid enough to deal with children like Adi.


The first thing that they needed were X-rays of her teeth. Boy oh boy, that was a hot mess. A lot of crying and screaming. She was scared, I understand. I hated it too. It hurt my tongue and made me gag. After several minutes of trying to coax her into doing the X-rays, we gave up. But when she saw that the dental assistant was putting her chair back down ( she loved riding the chair up) she started screaming again and said she'd try to do the X-rays.
Part one done.


Next came the teeth cleaning. Adi did great. I was super thankful that she cooperated. This was the Adeline I was hoping to see at the dentist office. Even when the actual dentist cane in, she did great. She did bite her fingers several times though.
Adi didn't like the 'vitamins' she brushed on at the end. I don't remember ever having gooey vitamins smeared on my teeth. It was supposed to taste like watermelon. We found out pretty quickly that either it didn't taste good or Adi doesn't like watermelon, because once she hopped off of the chair, she spit all over the floor. I guess I need to work on teaching Adeline proper etiquette.



After everything the dentist gave me a lecture on the foods Adi eats, particularly pretzels and crackers, since they breakdown into sugar. Thank you mam. I know not to take it personally, but those with kids know how hard it is to get them to eat anything.

Anywho.

Adi's teeth looked good. Great spacing, no cavities, her permanent teeth are developing well, but she has a 'cross bite'. On the right side of her mouth, her teeth fit on top of each other perfectly, with the top teeth slightly over the bottom. But the left side had the bottom teeth over the top. Does that make sense? Poor thing. The dentist said that if it didn't right itself (once permanent teeth come in) that she would need a pallet expander and that she has a 66 percent chance of needing braces too.

It was a stressful stressful visit, but much needed.



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