Accidents Happen-- TEETH!

On Sunday, we came home from church that day and as we pulled into the driveway our neighbors had just got home. Grace spotted our neighbor's kids (Andrew and Mattie--she just LOVES) and HAD to go play with them for a minute. They always have fun chasing each other. Grace started chasing Andrew around and FELL trying to run up our neighbors driveway and hit her tooth that had JUST BEEN CHIPPED 4 months ago. As soon as she fell and hit her mouth she started crying and said MY TOOTH!! I immediately knew she had done something to her bonded teeth. She DID!! One of the two that had been fixed broke AGAIN! The filling/bonding material broke off when she fell! Me and Adam were both SICK and Grace was upset about it too because she remembers VERY VIVIDLY what she went through BEFORE to get them fixed. I was at first concerned about the money to get them fixed again but I later realized that the pediatric dentist had said 4 months ago, if they break off in the next 6 months we could bring her back and she would fix them free of charge. I still wasn't sure because of how it happened. But we called on Monday morning and they stated they would do that and they worked her in to have it done THAT DAY!

So off to the dentist we go on Monday morning. We tried to prepare Grace by telling her every thing they were going to do. When they called her back she started crying and esp. when she saw all the 'sights' behind the door. She buried her head in her Daddy's chest and cried at first. She was just scared! She ended up being a TOTAL trooper and actually got calm and was still most of the time until the Dentist ran the drill to smooth out her tooth. She was still very tense as they did it. It is TORTURE to her and her Mommy and Daddy, to see her like that! They don't sedate at this office and I have wished they would but they were also a lot cheaper too.

SOOO, she got them fixed but Adam and I are not completely happy with it. Last time, we had to take her back a second time for them to fix them good because they do it so fast and rush it. I am determined I am not putting her through that any more right now while it is so traumatizing to her, being so young. They kept leaving a bigger gap between her teeth than what was there before. The last time her teeth were fixed (the 2nd time) they looked GREAT! This time, they look A LOT better than a corner chip out of them but the tooth is not exactly straight and they should have filled in a little more in the middle.

I still get a knot in my chest thinking about it, because I am still disgusted that it happened and I feel like a better job could have been done. Although, I was looking at some of her early pictures before the chip incident, and the gap actually looks more like what it originally looked like.

Thankfully, they are just baby teeth and I have recently been reminded that we could have a WHOLE LOT worse problems with her. She is healthy and I can praise the Lord for that ALONE!!!

We are so proud of her, and she got some prizes at Target for doing so well. She keeps saying "I was good at the Dentist:)"

Compare.. you can click on them and zoom in to see better


Before any chipped teeth..


After getting them fixed good the first time she chipped them..


Now