Quirky Mom, Quirky Family
Eshiva drank some blue raspberry sugar syrup straight from the bottle. Her front two teeth (which have clear crowns on them) are now purple. Anyone have any suggestions? None of the other teeth are dyed. I am pretty pissed the dentist used such crappy quality crowns now.
So, I called the dentist my brother & sister go to in order to find out how much a visit & cleaning would be. I don’t know if she was full of it or not, but I got a free general check and x-rays today – Mothers Day special. I think she made it up on the spot lol
The tooth I went in for is not a problem. I have some gum erosion because of early gum disease (thank god I didn’t keep that labret, right?) and what I thought was a cavity is “mature plaque.” Yum.
I do have four cavities, small ones. I didn’t even know about them, so they can’t be that bad. They are cutting me a break on it, 150$ a pop instead of they 195$ they charge people who have insurance. I also need a deep cleaning (they Novocain you up for this and scrape under your gums), which is another 105$
Hello Bank of Dad, I need to make a withdraw. I made an appointment for two weeks from today, and he’s going to go with me and charge it and I’ll pay him back. They offer that credit card… thing that is from GE Money Bank, but we used that about three years ago to pay for our glasses and I settled the account with GE for less than we owed. I didn’t expect to get approved for it again, and frankly, at 29% interest, I didn’t want it. Dad is just happy I went in and can get this easy stuff taken care of – my moms mouth cost them over ten grand and that was with a discount, and he footed the bill for Michael’s mouth as well. I think he is happy to not have to pay for more than it came to. If I could put it off till after December we would have it, but I don’t want to wind up with something worse. It’s the first time I’ve been to a dentist in over ten years – last time was when I had my bottom wisdom teeth cut out. I think I was 18.
Then I was asked if I had braces, I said yah, and he was all “you don’t wear your retainer?” I said, ah, I had braces when I was eleven. I am sure I had a WTF? face on too.
Oh! It’s been talk to Jenn about her tattoos & ears week too. I had kids all over my arms & ears at therapy on Thursday, and the dental assistant who did my x-rays asked about them, and the dentist himself was all “I guess it’s a good think you’re used to needles” (fucker) and the counter girl asked about my stretches – it’s been a weird body modification oriented kind of week.
Malachai’s bottom two teeth are loose! I downloaded a teeth pdf about when they come in, when they fall out, etc.. to show the kids and we decided to check Mal’s b/c the bottom ones tend to come out around age 6. They were all wiggly!
He was all giggly and ran around the house showing everyone his loose teeth. He is so cute 
I lurve him.
He wont let me touch them again, but he is so obviously proud of having loose teeth. Yay Mal!
Unfortunately, they are *not* the top teeth, which are the ones with the big as cavity right in the middle.
I am sure you have all noticed in Dorian’s photos it looks like he has been eating blueberries or I don’t know, drinking battery acid.
Well, we had been needing to go in for that, because the asshole dentist we went to last year said unless he is in pain, they wont do anything about baby teeth anyway. Wrong, guess again.
So his first tooth fell out a while ago, and I started a search for a dentist who a) takes our insurance and b) sees children.
I finally called the ins this morning and they found one who would see him (everyone I phoned either said under 5 or over 10) so we have an appointment for next Monday. One of his lower baby teeth is loose, but not out, and the adult tooth is coming in very crooked and very behind it. We’re going to have that taken care of it (the tooth in question is loose but not loose enough to come out easily) and let them take a look-see at the rest of his mouth and maybe make an appointment. The next check up appt wasn’t available until the end of May, but because of that tooth they got him in. I was just going to make an appt for the end of May for him as well, however they told me over the phone to just see what the doc has to say and maybe we’ll be going again a little bit sooner.
Yay!! Dorian got his dads teeth, in other words, weak and crumbly, thank goodness we are getting it taken care of and thank goodness the other two kids got my strong horseteeth lol
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