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Mar. 31st, 2023 09:22 amThe Cub's braces are on.
She was a total star and my worries were, apparently, unfounded.
There seems to have been an almost instant failure on her upper right 7, a lateral incisor*. When she arrived home she reported a gap where no gap should be; the tooth is quite far back, but was still within reach of the arch wire, so on went a bracket that morning. That afternoon the bracket had left the tooth. I called the orthodontist's and their eventual response was, effectively, 'don't worry'.
So. Fingers crossed. The Cub is having to make changes to her routine and that's NOT welcome; I can see an upswing in grumpiness coming when she has to start checking her teeth at school. Her Eating is already taking a lot more time*** and she was very lucky her taxi driver was later this morning, otherwise she'd have got no breakfast to speak of. I had her clean her teeth quickly while the taxi was standing outside and she was huffing at the whole inconvenience of the thing in short order – mind you, she was having plenty of escalator**** moments while something must have been going on behind her eyes, surely.
Ah well. I got a slightly distant 15 minutes of video of The Cub and the busy hands of the Orthodontic Therapist & Friend and that's giving some excellent details to help The Cub assimilate the event.
I was very pleased to get good coverage of the tooth extractions as well – not only did it make good detail for The Cub to go over afterwards, her aunt was absolutely delighted with being able to witness the process. It's not that we're ghoulish, you understand, it's just that we have a fine interest in acquiring new knowledge. Yes indeed. "Let me through, I'm a nosy person!" — Nanny Ogg, Maskerade.
*Blowed if I know how that's y'say it, but that's the tooth**.
**Trying hard not to say 'the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the...' Ah. Fail.
***Her "I ALWAYS eat slowly" had us rolling in the aisles as there's often been a swift clearing of her plate and a demand to to get back onto the internet "while I'm waiting".
****Long 'stairs' into space? So long that mechanised assistance is required? Get it? No?
She was a total star and my worries were, apparently, unfounded.
There seems to have been an almost instant failure on her upper right 7, a lateral incisor*. When she arrived home she reported a gap where no gap should be; the tooth is quite far back, but was still within reach of the arch wire, so on went a bracket that morning. That afternoon the bracket had left the tooth. I called the orthodontist's and their eventual response was, effectively, 'don't worry'.
So. Fingers crossed. The Cub is having to make changes to her routine and that's NOT welcome; I can see an upswing in grumpiness coming when she has to start checking her teeth at school. Her Eating is already taking a lot more time*** and she was very lucky her taxi driver was later this morning, otherwise she'd have got no breakfast to speak of. I had her clean her teeth quickly while the taxi was standing outside and she was huffing at the whole inconvenience of the thing in short order – mind you, she was having plenty of escalator**** moments while something must have been going on behind her eyes, surely.
Ah well. I got a slightly distant 15 minutes of video of The Cub and the busy hands of the Orthodontic Therapist & Friend and that's giving some excellent details to help The Cub assimilate the event.
I was very pleased to get good coverage of the tooth extractions as well – not only did it make good detail for The Cub to go over afterwards, her aunt was absolutely delighted with being able to witness the process. It's not that we're ghoulish, you understand, it's just that we have a fine interest in acquiring new knowledge. Yes indeed. "Let me through, I'm a nosy person!" — Nanny Ogg, Maskerade.
*Blowed if I know how that's y'say it, but that's the tooth**.
**Trying hard not to say 'the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the...' Ah. Fail.
***Her "I ALWAYS eat slowly" had us rolling in the aisles as there's often been a swift clearing of her plate and a demand to to get back onto the internet "while I'm waiting".
****Long 'stairs' into space? So long that mechanised assistance is required? Get it? No?
