Timely. We just went to the dentist for the first time this morning. We knew Chris' (age 9) mouth was in bad shape just from looking in it ourselves. He actually does a pretty good job brushing his teeth, but his teeth were horrible!
About a month ago he lost a tooth. He was so excited to hide it for the Tooth Fairy! Then the next day, he lost some more of the same tooth. Umm, yuck. All in all, it took three tries before the whole tooth came out. There was a whole lot of rot in there.
Long story short, he needs to have at least 6 teeth pulled -thankfully all baby teeth, but still. All of his adult teeth are in good shape, so that is the good news.
We had an interpreter with us for this appointment because we expected it to be a doozy. The interpreter was helpful, and even got Chris to talk a little about the dentists he had seen in Poland - a lot of drilling seems to have been involved there.
Needless to say, we will be seeing a lot of the dentist in the next few months.
~sarah
based on a true story...