Kort's first dentist visit

One day at the beginning of April, I noticed Kort's bottom front tooth was loose! I obviously looked up the age when kids started losing teeth. All I kept finding was that four was the earliest for kids, but the norm is around age seven. Well, we knew something was up then. On a Sunday morning, it was all swollen around the tooth. We talked to a General Dentist that is in our ward and asked what it could possibly be. He said probably an abscess and we should take him to a children's dentist. That night, that bump on his gums had what it looked like puss wanting to come out, but yet thick and not runny, whatever. I know, disgusting. He said touching it hurt.

Monday morning, all the swelling was gone. His tooth was still loose. I made a call to the children's dentist and luckily they got him in that afternoon. I kept telling Kort that they were going to take pictures of his teeth and then we could see how cool they looked afterwards. Obviously he had no idea who or what the dentist was, so he went with it. However, once we got there and they put him in the chair to take x-rays, he was not having it. They did have it real kid friendly and told him he could have an ice cream after, he still did not want to sit there. They went to the next step. They cleaned his teeth.

He would barely lay still long enough for the lady to clean and floss them. Luckily they had some bubblegum flavor fluoride stuff or whatever it was. The dentist came to look, but didn't do much because he needed x-rays to fix the problem. So, back to the "chair". It took 3 ladies to hold him down and to take one simple picture, and they barely got a shot of his loose tooth. With that info, the doc said there was an infection beneath his tooth that was eating away his roots, so the tooth would have to be pulled no matter what. He said it was most likely due to some sort of "trauma", getting hit in the mouth, etc. I have no idea when that could've happened or what from, but I guess something did happen.

Flash forward a couple weeks later, we worked on making his tooth more loose because we knew he wasn't going to go back and have the dentist pull it out. Finally one morning, I was using my tweezers to kind of work with it, I just twisted it a little and out it came! It didn't hurt him at all. The only part he freaked out on was me trying to put a kleenex in his mouth to stop the bleeding, which ended shortly after.

We told Kort about the Tooth Fairy, so he put his tooth in a zip lock bag and that next morning the Tooth Fairy brought 2 quarters!! He's been pretty excited :)