Toothless!

My poor baby girl has lost 6 teeth so far and ALL of them have been pulled out by the dentist.  She had shark teeth on the bottom and her teeth didn't loosen on the front, only the back.  They pulled the two next to them because there wasn't enough room for her permanent teeth.

Her top teeth became loose in early December.  We went for our scheduled cleaning in January and our dentist thought for sure they'd be out in less than a month.  Well, 4 months later, they were still attached.  She bit down on a carrot last week and it shoved her tooth up into her gums and caused inflammation and pain.  She finally asked me to call the dentist to make an appt to have them pulled.  

She was super brave because she didn't like the numbing cream and the novocain caused her some discomfort too.  The dentist had to work really hard to get the first tooth out.  It was really loose, but wasn't letting go and kept slipping out of her tools.  The pressure and popping/cracking noises bothered her and brought some tears.  Blanca (our dentist) and I almost started crying along with her. Poor baby.  

Here she is with her new look after we got home.  You can see her lip was still swollen.  She stayed home from practice just incase she was in pain or the bleeding started back up again.

After dinner we walked down to the corner for some froyo as a reward for being so brave and making the difficult choice to have them removed.  

A visit from the tooth fairy didn't hurt either!  Our tooth fairy is very generous so she ended up with and extra $10!  (Yes, $5 a tooth is a lot, but our children don't get chore money unless they do extra chores outside of their assigned ones so this gives them a way to learn to manage money) 

I love listening to her talk now.  Her BFF is also missing her two front teeth so now they are really like twins!  Extra bonus!