Ever had the thought that the visit to the dentist would be quick and painless? I'm sure Morgan thought that yesterday. She called me from school to tell me she had chipped a tooth. Of all things, a molar! How, you might ask? Playing dodgeball in P.E.!!! She claims she was dodging the ball (name of the game, Mom!) and dove to the floor and that's how it happened. She said it was scratching the inside of her cheek. I called the dentist and they got her in that afternoon. They said they'd probably just file it down so it wouldn't bother her. Yea, right.
I got called into the dentist office after they checked her. The tooth in question was a baby tooth and it had a tooth growing under it. They said it would be easiest to just pull it. Okay, no problem. Um, she had 3 other teeth that are also baby teeth, 3 of the 4 had teeth either growing under or behind them. Let's just pull them all. Morgan seemed good with that, so I said fine. So now her two bottom eye teeth and two bottom molars are gone. As she puts it..."she looks like a hillbilly". Luckily, those permanent teeth should be coming in quickly to fill the gaps. Not exactly what we had in mind for a "quick" run to the dentist!
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I'm amazed he had time to do it then and there! Does the tooth fairy still show up for 15 year olds? Because I hear she pays extra when the teeth have to be pulled.
BGM, well, the tooth fairy didn't exactly show up, but she is doing Morgan's latest fundraising efforts for volleyball. Does that count?
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