Mutant Child
I took M and S to a new dentist today. Our old dentist is retiring and selling his practice to someone new; I decided to take the opportunity to move the kids to a pediatric dentistry practice.
The new practice was fabulous with S. Really great. It was her first full cleaning, and they even managed xrays.
M had the full treatment, too, including panoramic xrays which revealed something very interesting. The kid has an extra tooth buried high in the gums between his two front teeth. Seriously - he has three front teeth.
We'll be having him evaluated by an oral surgeon sometime soon. They may or may not need to remove it surgically.
(Very amusingly...after this discovery, I called a close friend and left her a message about it..she called back later as she had been at the dentist with her #2 son this morning and discovered he is missing a front tooth! The baby tooth has come out and there is nothing to take it's place. Dental transplant anyone?)
2 comments:
This is very strange indeed, especially coupled with your friend's son with the missing one. (Speaking of which - what in the world will they do with him?? He's too young for an implant, isn't he? Will he just have a missing front tooth for a long while?)
Hopefully they can just let M's stay where it is.
You can tell him he's highly evolved. That's my story since I don't have (never had) wisdom teeth. Some of us are just further up the evolutionary scale than others.
Oh interesting about your wisdom teeth! Hubby is on the opposite evolutionary end from you -he is the only person I know whose wisdom teeth came in just fine and they are still there.
As for my friend's son, I think they are planning to do some space maintenance until he's old enough for an implant.
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