A Dental Lesson for All: Irony at it's best!!

Remember when I wrote about "A Dentist's Worst Nightmare"? Well, to my surprise there is actually something more sad than that to worry about. This story is so completely ironic I don't even know where to start. How about the beginning??....so how ever many months ago, I told ya'll about how Gaby had chipped her front tooth and luckily I was able to add some bonding to make it look back to normal right? Unfortunate but very fixable and actually not so big of a deal. Well, we were going along enjoying our life when right before Easter we discovered that Gaby's little tooth that she fractured had an abcess!! (That means, that the tooth was "dying" and had formed an infection around the root.) Now this was very sad to me because there is really only one solution for this- extraction. But being as I know the best dentists in town, I begged my good friend, Brad (a pediatric dentist) to try some hero-odontics and attempt to do a baby root canal on her tooth just to buy us some more time with the tooth. Afterall, my sweetie is only 4 yrs old and not expected to start losing teeth for another TWO years!! I just couldn't accept that reality just yet. Luckily, Brad agreed, we put her on some antibiotics and scheduled her for the procedure. The abcess was clearing and we were days from our appointment when the most unbelievable thing happened.....my sweet daughter came into our room one night, bloodied and crying uncontrollably!! What on earth had happened to her? Well, for the first time in her ENTIRE life, she had somehow fallen off of her bed!!! And as I'm wiping the blood from her cheek and nose and noticing that there are no cuts or damage to her face it dawns on me that there is only one place for that much blood to come from.....as I lift her lip......to my horror she had somehow landed smack dab on nothing else but that d^#m tooth! Is that not the most IRONIC thing ever?? The tooth was bloodied and bruised and loose. My heart just sank because I knew the inevitable was going to happen and truly a dentist's worst nightmare was coming true. So the next morning we headed to see Dr. Brad who took an xray and confirmed the fact that the poor tooth was a goner. I did weep a little for the tooth but had to remind myself that there are soooo many worse things that could have happened to my sweetie and I am very lucky that she is a healthy, happy little girl. Soooo, two days later under some sedation, a very cooperative big girl saw Dr. Brad and had her tooth extracted. She did so extremely amazing! She was the perfect patient! We are very proud of her! The next morning when Gaby discovered the $5 the tooth fairy left her she was as happy as could be and actually thinks it's very cool to have a missing tooth. Me? I don't think it's so cool but truthfully?? her little toothless smile is growing on me and she is still as cute as a button!! Sadly, it does make her look alot older than she is, doesn't it? Like a crazed pageant/dentist mom, I have sent out for a replacement tooth (a tiny, child partial denture) just in case we ever want her to throw it in for a picture or something. We'll see if she actually wears it!

So that's my sad story. Truly unbelievable, don't you think??