Luke has been desperately wiggling his bottom two front teeth for months, but they refused to come out. When I took a good look in his mouth a couple of weeks ago I was alarmed because his adult teeth were coming in about a quarter inch behind his baby teeth.
Fortunately a friend at church, Margaret, teaches at the dental school and she took a peek in his mouth while he was climbing a tree after church. She said that the position of the adult teeth is good because the bottom baby teeth were in front of his top teeth, so the adult teeth are in much better alignment (maybe less time in braces if we're lucky?). However....she also said that one of the jobs of the adult teeth is to push out the baby teeth, and that wasn't going to happen for Luke. She recommended a bit of "help" from his pediatric dentist, Heidi Yang.
Today was the big day. We didn't tell Luke about the appointment so he wouldn't be scared. I requested laughing gas, Dr. Heidi numbed his mouth, then pushed and tugged. Several minutes after his teeth were safely packaged, I complimented him on his big boy smile and he said, "I didn't know she pulled my teeth!?" A perfect dentist experience!
Dr. Heidi told him that if the dentist pulls your teeth, the tooth fairy has to pay double. And that you have to have ice cream for dinner. And that there's a decent chance that she'll have to help the next two bottom teeth. Luke said that he's totally happy to go back for another tooth tug as long as he gets laughing gas.
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