2 days ago we brought Sherilyn to the dentist to have her front tooth extracted. It was her very first visit to the dentist. Can you beat it that I have never brought Sherilyn and Cassandra to the dentist? Not until recently, on 10 April 2012. As for Alycia, I brought her to the dentist aeons ago when she was still a toddler. Now, the school’s in-house dentist checks her teeth.
Sherilyn’s front tooth had been hanging loosely for the past one month and eating has been a hassle. We suggested bringing her to the dentist to have the tooth extracted when it bled lightly since last week but she chickened out. Then during Cassandra’s 4th birthday dinner at the steamboat restaurant on Monday, the tooth was almost yanked out while she was eating fishballs (LOL!!) and it caused the gum to bleed quite a bit. It was then that she could no longer stand having a terribly shaky tooth hanging on her gum, distorting her smile and the way she talked. The next day, we brought her to the dentist.
Sherilyn was very well prepared for the visit to the dentist. She was not scared a wee bit. I guess her best friend, Berlyn’s recent visit to the same dentist last week to have her tooth extracted allayed her fears.
The whole procedure from the time she was seated on the chair to the moment the tooth was yanked out by the dentist (without any equipment) was less than 2 minutes. The dentist sprayed a cooling stuff to numb the gum and then pulled off the shaky tooth effortlessly and Sherilyn was not even aware that her tooth was pulled out until we cheered and laughed!
It was Cassandra who was a tad nervous and scared. It was her first visit to the dentist and her first time witnessing the dentist pulling off someone’s tooth. Good thing I brought her along. At least she now has an impression that tooth extraction is painless and so simple! Makes it easier for all of us if we ever need to bring her to the dentist to have her tooth extracted too.
Bill came up to RM45 for such a simple procedure! Expensive?
Sherilyn at 7years 2 months
Cassandra at 4 years old
If you’d requested the school dentist to extract that tooth it would be free!
When we were young (…abt the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth), Mum did the usual trick of stringing up the tooth and attaching to a door knob! The dentist went thru expensive schooling and also the set-up is expensive, hence the patients pay! Recently had 2 fillings done for CAD500+, plus 2 weeks had a 9-mth checkup (insurance covers a visit every 9 mths, alleluia!) for abt CAD250.
Mum… I didn’t think of that! Next time I will!
Chris, thank God for your insurance coverage which also covers dental costs! I wonder if we have such a plan here??
I agree with their grandma. Should have asked her to go the school dentist.
heheheh…Sher is really brave! Ashley has never been to a dentist until last month 🙂 For both occasions, she needed the jab to really numb the gums so that the teeth can be extracted. The new ones are coming out but the milk teeth were still holding strong. First visit – rm60. 2nd visit – rm55. I think it would be great for Ashley to take up dentistry when she grows up…*kaching*
well done Sher! as much as RL is comfortable in seeing her dentist (3 times so far for tooth filling), she is still chicken about pulling out her tooth.
her visits are RM50 each time for the filling and the last was RM60 coz we added polishing.
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