Dental Work

On Sunday, Mary told us that she had teeth growing in behind her front bottom teeth. We don't spent a lot of time looking in anyone's mouth but Lilly, (Lilly is always putting something in her mouth, we are always looking to see what she's got in there. She's like a squirrel storing things up for later.) so Mary's announcement was news to us. The 2 front bottom teeth were loose, but we couldn't get them out, at least in any nice way.

Tara took Mary to the dentist today, she ended up having the front 4 teeth pulled. She seems to have taken it well. They tried nitrous oxide on her, she wouldn't do it, she said it made her stomach upset and smelled funny. Tara says she took the extraction really well.

On Sunday, I told Mary not to go to school and say "I got into trouble, and my parents pulled my teeth out." Tara was not amused. Last night, Drew came by, we said something about her needing to get her teeth pulled out, Drew asked why, I told him "Because she just won't behave herself." The look on Drew's face was priceless. It was something like 25% shock, 25% poker face, 25% "Did I hear that right?", and 25% "Am I going to have to arrest John?" Tara was once again not amused.

Anyway, hopefully this will let Mary's front bottom teeth move up to where they should be. She is no longer part shark. The dentist wanted to see her in 6 months to make sure the top front teeth are not doing the same thing.