Special teeth

Written on 3/29 - Our dental nightmare didn't end after Liana had her gum stitched closed. We found out she has cavities in her two front teeth among others. We have had a couple of consults and we will be taking her for surgery at Franciscan Children’s tomorrow. She will be put under for the surgery and the main reason is we are trying to preserve her 2 front teeth. There is enough decay behind them that it may affect the nerve in the tooth – we won’t know until she is under and the dentist can do a complete examination. We are hoping and praying she keeps those teeth – we don’t want her speech to be affected, we don’t want her to be ridiculed by mean little kids and we won’t be able to bear the guilt if she goes without them for the next 5 years because of something we could have prevented.

UPDATE as of 4.15 - the surgery on 3/30 went well and The Nugget has her pretty smile in tact and she now has a special tooth. Yup, a silver crown on the top right - second to the back as well as strip crowns on the two front teeth (you wouldn't know it unless I told you). Gotta say she was the best patient ever and (they called her "personality plus") she made us so proud to be her parents. She seems to be okay and her post-op check up went fine. The only negative thing from the surgery that she recalls is blowing into the mask (so she could get the gas in her lungs) - they told her she needed to try really hard to "blow up the balloon" - a purple balloon like thing attached to the mask. It seemed fun at first until she got a real taste of the gas. Later that night she told me she didn't want to blow up that balloon anymore ...