But seeing it is another thing
altogether!
My God kids really have a
whole stash of teeth crammed into their mouths. I can’t imagine what all those
teeth would look like in an X-ray of a baby.
A little prickle ran down my spine
when I saw the X-ray of Day’s teeth - first time I have seen what Day looks like on the inside - on the orthodontist’s laptop. Urgh.
As weirdly aligned and
abnormal as it looked to us, the orthodontist assures us its fairly normal.
Even the strange hitchhiker of a tooth which has lost its way and which inspired our visit to the specialist, just needs growing out.
While Day will very likely
require braces at a later age - particularly since all his teeth are jutting
out so his mouth isn’t close when he’s relaxed - it’s now all a matter of
wait-and-see, he says.
Well OK. Thanks for the $250
advice and X-rays!
(It has occurred to me more
than once that dentistry is incredibly lucrative)
The other X-ray was of his side-profile and I was arrested not by the teeth but by the sight of Day's neck vertabrae.
I can't quite explain it, but it's sort of like glimpsing for the first time all the complicated circuitry which makes up the child which first grew in your womb.
He's such a blinking miracle.
2 comments:
oh yes. errant teeth. isaac had an extra - between the milk tooth and the permanent one - that had to be extracted so that the permanent one could find its way out.
think i was more traumatised by that extraction than he was. :P
i dont think i'd be traumatized, just curious :)
his teeth look fine to me though. v big and white and straight.
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