Wordful Wednesday - To fill or not to fill.

We took both older girls to the dentist back in June. While the dentist was looking at Violet's teeth after the cleaning he noticed that she had a pit in one of her back teeth. She has very deep grooves and he told me that it would be hard to keep that area clean. Food would get stuck down there and he couldn't say that a cavity would happen for sure but it there was a good possibility. He suggested filling it. There would be no numbing or gas. It would be 5 short minutes. If she handled it ok it would be a white filling rather than silver. No big deal. To me it is a big deal though. They are putting her first filling in. I had the worst teeth growing up and had to sit in the dentist chair more than I would like to remember. I screamed and cried. They wouldn't let my grandma come back with me in those days. Matt and I talked about it and it would be better to do it now when there wouldn't be any pain rather than wait and potentially have to have a cavity filled. We chose to do it. It was this morning. I was nervous, Violet was not. My stomach was sick, she held Bunny Baby and laughed with the assistant. Ruby and Piper were with us and the room was very small so I wasn't able to be there with her. I had the worst feeling when they shut that door. What kind of mother lets her daughter go and get something like this done and not be in there with her? The pictures of my having to go kicking and screaming back into "the room" flashed in my mind over and over again. Then, 4 1/2 minutes later, she came out. Still smiling. "It didn't hurt at all" she said. "Look at my new tiara mama". The dentist said she did great but that he saw that we are going to have problems as most of her back teeth are grooved as this one was. That means more trips to the dentist for Violet. I hope my heart can take it :)

You can see the filling on the right side. You can also see the food still stuck in her teeth from breakfast. Maybe I shouldn't have let her brush her own teeth before the dentist :) I let the girls do the morning and I come through and brush them at night.

She took the tiara off b/c it hurt her head after awhile. Today was beach day at the dentist's office so she wore her swim cover up and sea shell shorts.


She was feeling good enough to go to story time at the library. They gave us 2 fish for the girls. I guess that will be a whole other post. A fish! *shaking head*

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