Today Justin had 7 baby teeth pulled to make room for new permanent teeth. Looking at the picture you can see they had some big roots. You can also see we left them untouched—blood still intact.
First the dentist gave him laughing gas and let him watch Shrek on a big screen television mounted on the ceiling. After about 30 minutes Justin was smiling pretty big and didn’t seem too concerned about having teeth pulled even though it was the first time.
The dentist deadened his whole mouth since the seven teeth were pretty equally spaced throughout his mouth. Then in less than 30 minutes that seemed to me like 2 hours the dentist pulled all the teeth, put them in a big plastic tooth, and gave us instructions so we could go home.
As we paid Justin stood by the office door. He said, “I’m not in pain now, but it hurt several times, the cotton wads in my mouth are bloody, and I’d like to go home.”
We were home by 10:30am and taking to heart the number one instruction: watch Justin so he doesn’t bite his cheek because the deadening feels weird and he might chew on himself checking it out. Since the shot was to wear off by noon this was an easy job. All the cotton wads came out, Justin had soda and relaxed about half an hour. He wasn’t sleepy so I got out the craft kit I’d got as a surprise. He stitched three pictures from Eric Carle books in no time with his shoelace sewing kit.
By the time Grant got home from school at 4pm Justin looked as if he’d never had surgery. Wow, talk about fast healing-- he’s talking about eating pizza this weekend.
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