Kiersten’s Blog

London went to the dentist on Friday.  Last year when I took her, she kept spitting the thing out of her mouth so they couldn’t get x-rays.  This time, that wasn’t the issue.  They got x-rays all right, and boy do I wish I didn’t know.  I’m not sure how such a small child with such small teeth would need so much work done.  It turns out that we need to force her to floss, I guess.  Or maybe I need to check and see if our water is fluoridated.  Or maybe it doesn’t matter now.  The damage is done.  She needs $3500 of dental work done.  It’s a good thing our insurance will cover a lot of it, although we’ll still have to fork out a pretty penny.  Apparently London’s four top molars are so decayed in between the teeth, that they all need to be cleaned out and capped.  It’s getting so bad that the cavities are close to hitting nerves.  Now, I have cavities every time I go to the dentist (remember this?).  In fact, I just went a week ago and have 2 more cavities, but I’ve never had anything even close to this extensive.  I can’t believe how bad they can get in four short years!  I’ve seen kids with caps on their teeth and wonder how in the world they got to be so bad.  Now my child is one of those!  We brush every day.  I just hope her permanent teeth are more hearty than her baby teeth.  And, speaking of teeth, remember that loose tooth I mentioned about a week ago?  It fell out today.  That’s right.  My four-year-old daughter will go to her first day of kindergarten on Monday, missing a tooth.  How is this possible?