By the time Andrew was 5 months old he had two teeth. The dentist told me that since he got his teeth early, he would lose them early. So Andrew turned 5 then 6, waiting patiently to lose his first tooth. Recently, an adult tooth came in, but still the baby tooth in front of it was stubborn, not willing to release it's grip on his gums. After even more patience, wiggling, and eating hard crunchy foods with his tooth, it was loose enough to "shoot" out. A few years ago we tried this with Caleb, tying one end of floss to the loose tooth and the other to a dart loaded in a gun. Well, the video speaks for itself. He lost the tooth, literally! The video does not show that two weeks later, I found it. Does that tell you how much I clean?
Then last week, Andrew woke up with a fat lip that continued to swell up more all day. He complained of stomachache, then his tooth would hurt, and he had a low fever. He was miserable all day and I couldn't tell what was wrong, but he looked so weird with his fat lip. Last year Andrew had hit his tooth hard enough to kill the tooth and the dentist had reassured me that it would fall out eventually and should be fine. When I took him into the dentist the next morning she told me it was infected, put him on antibiotics, and scheduled an extraction when the swelling went down. So, Andrew lost his second tooth the hard way, but he didn't seem to mind, until the numbness wore off.
