Orthodontist

Courtney has some funky teeth. She is missing her eye teeth.  On one side of her two front teeth she has a baby tooth without a root that is hanging because it is being squeezed between two other teeth.  She doesn't want it to come out until she has braces because she would only have her two front teeth.  On the other side of her front teeth, she has an adult tooth growing in and taking the spot that was vacated by the baby eye tooth.  So the tooth it should be pushing out is firmly still rooted in her gums.  That means that we will have to go to the dentist to have that one pulled sometime after she has braces put on and they can make space for it to come out.

They figure that, with only those two baby teeth left (one not even attached by a root) that it's time to start braces.  We are waiting until August, for insurance reasons, but then she will get braces.  They will make space and then pull the two baby teeth.  She will need implants when she is 18 or 19 years old, but until then, they will make a fake tooth and use it so the spaces are accounted for where she doesn't have teeth coming in.

When the orthodontist checked her teeth he saw her molar baby tooth that was hanging on but the adult tooth wasn't able to push it out.  It was only partly there so he used the other end of the little mirror tool as a crowbar and he pried her tooth out.  She has a pretty high pain tolerance because she wasn't in any pain.  But he got it out!

We scheduled the braces and then she was given a blue icee.  The orthodontist gives these to kids after their appointment and it always turns her mouth different colors.

Ugh!