Teeth

I am not sure if everyone knows this or not but when I met Naomi for the first time, I discovered that she is missing her two front bottom teeth. The orphanage said that the teeth were gone when they got her and so they had no explanation.

We have been wondering if she ever had them, or if they got knocked out. Does she have adult teeth that will come up in the future?

Well today was her first dentist apt. so we were hoping to get some answers. We were not sure how she would do so we have been talking to her about the dentist and what they do. We go to Pearl Family Dental Care and I love them. They are so relaxed and kid friendly. They let Naomi sit on my lap in the chair. Thankfully she let the lady take 2 x rays of her front teeth so we could see what was going on. The dentist got a little over half way done cleaning her teeth before she freaked out. They said that was good.

Then we got the good news from the dentist that he saw 2 adult teeth in the gums in the x ray. He said that the teeth were probably knocked out because if people are born missing teeth it is usually certain ones and the front two are not it. He also said that there was no pieces of the teeth stuck in the gums so that was good too.

He said if we wanted we could have false teeth wired in her mouth until the adult teeth come up but he did not recommend that. So we were happy with what we found out!

Then it was my turn. With Naomi on my lap and Jacob peering in my mouth and asking the hygienist a ton of questions I got my teeth cleaned. Micah and Jacob saw the dentists too so we are all good for awhile.