dental issues

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You obviously know what is best for Mercedes but I was going to just mention

to give the " sleep through " teeth pulling some thought. I know we run

additional risks when a child is put under. Mercedes is 6 now and you might

be able to work with her more easily.

Adam has had a large number of teeth pulled, in fact so has my non RSS

daughter. I think the two of them have only had 3 teeth (combined) fall out

on their own, the rest have been pulled. I have a small jaw and they both

inherited that from me, (add to the fact that an RSS symptom is a smaller

jaw size.......well poor Adam is getting a double whammy

there!).....anyway, we pulled teeth to give room for the adults to come in

straight and in the right spot. My daughter has perfectly straight and

placed teeth now and we didn't have to use braces by using this technique.

My point is, the tooth pulling is quite easy ONCE you get the freezing in.

Depending on which teeth are being pulled, they often just pop out. To put

them to sleep for literally a two second moment, seems like a lot. Now when

Adam's eye teeth were pulled out, the roots had not dissolved. These were

TWO huge teeth. They are incredible (to me it looked so large it must have

been touching his eye ball!!!! LOL), he managed that with just freezing.

Some of the baby teeth at the front of the mouth had no roots left but for

some reason they just refused to give up their spot. Those are the easiest

to remove.

Can the dentist tell from an x-ray how much root structure is left? I don't

know the answer to that one, but if they could, I would consider checking

that before putting Mercedes to sleep.

Like I said, the freezing needle is the worst part. For my daughter we used

the laughing gas (I was afraid to use it with Adam) so we use a simple bribe

" Let the doctor putting the tooth sleeping medicine in (we never called it a

needle or freezing) and after I will take you to Toys R Us and you can buy

anything you want " . It worked!

Debby