Saturday, May 17, 2008

orthodontist visit

I took DS1 to his first orthodontist visit and with the careful explanation, with the nice doctor pointing at DS1's mouth, I now know that the overlapping teeth are not due to teeth that haven';t fallen out yet, but are because his teeth are way too big. In one case, there's a teeny-tiny gap and that's where the adult tooth is supposed to fit. The orthodontist wants him to have one of those x-rays where it's one continuous picture instead of some bite wing ones and then we'll talk about what he's going to do to make space in there.

So.... does this mean he's going to have 5 or 6 years of continual braces? do we wait until more teeth are in and do it all at once? poor guy.

hey Mom, how long did D have braces? It seems like she had something going on with headgear and so on for about 10 years. She's got gorgeous teeth now (at least did last I saw her).

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