Say Cheese!! Or how about Ouch!!!

Semi Annual teeth cleaning, certainly never enjoyed, but pleasantly tolerated I suppose. Abbie and Cierra went to theirs a couple of weeks ago to find out they should make a trip to an Orthodontist. Bill asked around at work and quite a few recommended Dr. Hillam so this week, Abbie on Monday and Cierra on Tuesday, we had consultations with him. They went in and had full panel x-rays and their pictures taken. It was a relatively painless...except for the extreme boredom that Cierra professed to be going through while waiting!!!

The verdict for Abbie is...crowding, lots and lots of crowding. Right now Abbie will have 4 teeth pulled. She's gotten all four of the teeth on the top and bottom so they will pull each of the next ones out. The canines or eye teeth, they are still baby teeth, so it shouldn't be too bad, but it will help make room for some of her other teeth to come in. She'll end up with braces when she's about 13 I imagine and he said they will end up pulling 4 of her permanent teeth, well 3 actually, but only because she doesn't have a permanent tooth in one of the spots. Cierra on the other hand needs a little more immediate attention. Besides severe crowding also, her front tooth on the right came in behind the baby one. So they will be pulling 7 of her baby teeth and then she will get a retainer to help bring the one coming out the front, back and the one that sits behind her bottom teeth, forward. She had a dentist appt. on Tuesday for cavities to be filled so they went ahead and started pulling teeth. The one on the front bottom left (not the two in the middle, but the next one out) was barely hanging on and Cierra is just too panicky to pull it, plus the new tooth is already growing in behind it just like the one of the top did.

Here are the teeth they pulled. The one that was ready to come out is the top one, the big long one was the next one to the left of it, its the bottom canine Cierra thinks it looks like a shark tooth. Here is Cierra's cute letter to the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth Fairy's reply.

(notes: the white stuff in her mouth is the packing they put in the hole, and beeing is suppose to be begging)

The tooth fairy brings only $1 per tooth and so the next morning when Cierra showed me the note that she left I asked her why she asked for $4 when she knows she only gets $1 per tooth. She told me she measured it and it was $3 worth of tooth! I guess the tooth fairy didn't think so because she only left $2. By the end of the month Cierra should be rich after having 7 teeth pulled, don't you think??? And I should be poor!!!