Monday, January 5, 2009
root canal
Today was my follow up dentist appointment for moma. i noticed her tooth is turning grey and so i was worried about this appointment and what they would tell me our next step was. i knew that pulling her tooth was a possibility. so i took her in and they checked her out and said that in order to save the tooth.... not pull it... means that they would need to do a root canal! she called it a baby root canal. so they gave me two options #1 was to do a local and numb her mouth, strap her down hannibal lector style and then do the procedure. yeah right!! #2 is to wait for a referral for a few weeks and be sent to another dentist that will knock her out. i opted for that one. it will be less traumatic for her. so anyways, we are now just waiting for the papers to be done and then we can go get it done. doesn't that sound like so much fun?? if she gets an abscess in the mean time, then we will for sure need to pull it. so that's the latest. our stake president is a dentist so i think i may call him and ask if that sounds right. i hate doing that but I'm just worried and i know he probably wouldn't be able to give me much information without looking at her tooth but i just want to see if a baby root canal is something that is a normal thing to do. i know i don't want her to have a tooth pulled since she's only 2 1/2 and won't be getting her permanent tooth for long time.
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Yes, the baby root canal is the first step. It's more like a filling when you're a kid. They'll open the tooth like a filling and clean out all the nerve tissue (or pulp) and seal it up like a filling. Don't let the word "root canal" scare you. It really is almost the same procedure as a filling when you're a kid. It's the adult ones that are more involved. I'm so sorry she has to go through it, though! At her age, I think you made the right decision about the anesthetic- for sure!
Debbie in YW's works for a dentist, too. She could probably give you good advice if you need it.
Scary stuff...the dentist is not my favorite place to go. Probably because I have always had bad teeth and passed that on to my boys too. Lucky for Princess AJ she got good teeth somehow.
Hope all goes as well as it can.
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