I cannot fathom how Madison got so many cavities!
This is really shocking because till today I've yet to have a filling in my mouth. I may have fractured teeth from chewing ice but no fillings.
Madison's seen my uncle the dentist since she was 3. She gets her teeth cleaned professionally at least once a year. I've bought her her first electric toothbrush when she was 2 or 3.
Yet... she had to have her first filling at 4. The second at 5ish.
Just 2 weeks ago she suddenly showed the helpers that she had her first permanent tooth poking out behind her milk tooth. I panicked and took her the very next day to the National Dental Centre's walk in clinic, where we waited TWO hours to be seen. The dentist took some xrays and then extracted the errant milk tooth. He then showed me the xrays and told me the BAD news. She had MORE cavities under her existing filling. Huge ones which potentially needed a root canal!! She also had another cavity behind her front incisor.
A friend then told me to go get a second opinion about her root canal, so I visited his friend who is a dentist.
He removed the filling and cleaned the cavity out, and put a new filling in. And told me to watch her sugar intake and start flossing her teeth everyday. I still have to go back to get her other tooth cleaned out and filled.
And take Annika to get HER teeth checked too!
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