Dentist time……………..
So off we go to the dentist today………………..not the first time but still it’s nerve racking for me………………..I am so afraid of the dentist but yet my profession is a dental assistant………………go figure!!!
My oldest DD has lost some teeth and have gotten back some teeth so I knew she would be fine but worried at the jaw teeth as some of those might not have been brushed that well…………..or so I was thinking………………but she did really well……….got them cleaned, got floride treatment and got the dentist to look at time with little to no effort to her………….which is really good cause she’s usually my nervous child who is always quite reluctant at doing anything that is new to her………………
Now our youngest daughter on the other hand……………..well what can I say she is after all only three and a bit so what else can you expect from a child at that age………….I mean really……………she doesn’t quite understand fully what the dentist is all about except for the fact taht he looks at her teeth…………..lol……………..but she did rather well……………she got her teeth cleaned and the hygeniest tried to floss but that was a no go…………..which really what can you expect from a three year old…………..floss her teeth, sure we are lucky if we can brush them most days……………..lol
Anyway she has what is classified as similar to bottle rot tooth decay…………..they know it’s decay but what it is caused by they are not sure……………under normal circumbstances our daughter would have had to have gone to bed with a bottle or juice all the time and have eaten lots of sweets and unhealthy food, etc but she doesn’t……………….we have followed the same protocol for her as we did with our other children and obviously our oldest doesn’t have teeth problems like this…………..she’s got a pretty princess smile according to the dentist……………lol
So then why do we have one child that has bad “weak” teeth??? This is so hard…………….we now have to wait for an appt with a ped. dentist in a city almost five hours away and then discuss further what needs to be done………….and our insurance will only pay 50% so we are talking a few hundred dollars to get it repaired until her adult teeth come in…………….or we can just yank them out……………….WHAT…………….no way………………after all they might not grow back for several years after all she is only three………….and it could affect her speech as well……………I don’t want to do that…………I’d rather pay the extra money to get them fixed rather than be abrassive and have them extracted…………oh dear!! I thought we weren’t going to have to pay for dental bills until a teenager and that was only to have simple restorations or braces……………lol………………but our daugher had other plans for our pocket book…………..lol……….I know it’s not her fault but man is paying so much is difficult for us right now………..trying to catch up on bills we had piled high from moving three times in the past years………..it’s been tough on us…………but our children come first and if we are behind on a bill or two so be it…………..oh well
Again another saga in being a king for day……………not feeling it so much today…………more like a peasant……….oh well……….our money days will come I’m sure but I’m sure we will be retired by then……….lol
