Beautiful Teeth

"Beautiful teeth. No worries." - a direct quote from our dentist after he checked out Athena's teeth for the first time. Zoe got a similar report.

Whew. I was so worried that with my history of childhood cavities the girls would be equally unlucky. The dentist explained that childhood cavities are often a result of the saliva the child inherits. So the girls must have gotten their Daddy's spit, because they are cavity free! They even had their picture taken (above) and added to the "Perfect Smiles" board.

We found a great dentist here who could not have been better working with children. The whole staff was fun and engaging and the girls allowed them to take x-rays, clean their teeth and do a check up in the big dental chair. There were many bribes given out along the way - among the loot were sparkly princess toothbrushes, Christmas pencils, Scooby-Doo stickers and miniature toy horses.

They even gave me a copy of Zoe's x-rays to take to her new cranio-facial team next month. It shows a baby tooth growing inside her cleft (tooth "C") which is often missing in cleft babies. However, there is no adult tooth "C" behind it, so that will have to be implanted after her adult teeth come in. No other little baby teeth are growing in weird places (which is common) but the dentist did say he noticed a hole in her palate (!) which he suggests I speak with her new team about. Poor little girl has so many surgeries ahead of her, my heart aches.

Athena chillin' while waiting for the dentist.