Dentist Visits

 

Last week we had the kids 6 month dentist appointments. They are always SO excited to go which I guess is good, it is just weird! I hope they never fear the dentist as much as me.

Abby has graduated to sitting in the big chair and getting a cleaning instead of sitting on my lap and having the dentist just count her teeth. She did great. She wasn't a bit nervous and got an excellent report. No cavities and very clean teeth.

I was a little worried for Caleb because they took him into another room so that all 3 kids could be done at the same time. He wasn't nervous at all, which was a great improvement from what would have happened even a couple months ago. The dentist was glad to see that Caleb had lost 2  bottom teeth and said he had quite a few other teeth that were loose and would be coming out soon. His 2 bottom, middle permanent teeth were starting to come through too. As expected the dentist predicts some orthodontics in our future. Also I thought it was interesting that Caleb hasn't got his back molars yet. The dentist said to look for them in the next year or so. I guess once they are out of the baby stage I kind of forgot about them getting more teeth. Other than the permanent teeth coming in at potentially interesting angles he also got an excellent report.

Bryce also handled the cleaning like a champ and the dentist was also glad to see that he had lost a tooth on the bottom. Bryce also had quite a few teeth that would be coming out in the next 6 months or so. He did already have his molars so we will just wait for him to loose more teeth and see if he will also need to visit and orthodontist in the future. Bryce got an excellent report and we were told to keep up the good work.

I guess live and learn right. Robb and I have had to have a ton of dental work in the last couple years so we have been trying to do really well with the kids teeth so they don't have to have work done and we don't have additional dental costs.