The Tooth Incident

On Sunday, June 25th, at about 9:00 pm, not five minutes after being told to go downstairs and "Calm Down" our sweet children came back upstairs with nervous looks on their faces and were quiet until one of the girls said to us, "You need to look at Silas's teeth".  We didn't look.  Then again, one of them insisted that we should take a look at Silas's front tooth.  I looked, and immediately went into a semi-panic mode.  What we had was an incident of Phoebe's foot vs. Silas's mouth during what I can only imagine was some sort of WWE Championship match in our basement.  I still am not sure exactly what transpired after they were told to "Calm Down", but they most definitely did not "Calm Down".

After a call to the Emergency Dentist after hours number, talking with our Dentist, and texting him the pictures of Silas's teeth, we knew this baby tooth had to come out.... We decided to try to get it out ourselves....  The Dentist gave me a few tips and pointers on the phone and said to let him know how it went.

We gave Silas some children's Advil to help with pain and tried to numb him up a little with some Baby Ora gel.  Then the fun part...not really.  Eric cleaned some needle nosed pliers with rubbing alcohol, we sweet talked Silas into laying down on the floor in the bathroom on his pillow, with a stuffed animal watching him "Be Brave", talked to him about wiggling that tooth out, Eric sat on him to restrain his arms and legs, and I got to play the role of the Dentist.

 I knew I would only have one shot at this tooth so I needed to grab on good and tight and give it one good pull... I clamped on, slightly twisted and pulled up.  It came right out!  Thank goodness!  With the pep talk from our current Dentist over the phone and my time working in Dr. Bennett's Dental office I could maybe have a future in pulling kids teeth.  (Dr. B would have been proud of me for this one.)

Silas did great holding still for us.  He didn't cry or whine once we got to it.  As soon as it was out he was ready for a new toy car, a bowl of ice cream, and some money from the Mommy Tooth Fairy.  Great job, kiddo.  Now let's try to have no more ER trips or Emergency Dentist calls for the rest of this summer.