bye bye front tooth...

A year and a half ago Austin was mucking around on the couch, fell and knocked his front tooth quite badly. It ended up with an abcess and took numerous courses of antibiotics, endless visits to the dentist, endless dentists bills and eventually a root canal to save it and get it to re-attach. We could have taken it out then and there but we just couldn't face the thought of our little 3 year old without his front tooth. Well its been fine for the last year or so, apart from getting a bit darker and obviously a bit weaker, because it eventually cracked straight down the middle - while eating a Smartie cookie at Zubi - "see mummy was right, those biscuits are bad for you..." 

Steve tried to take it out with a piece of gauze but the tooth was going nowhere and he only succeeded in breaking the other half off - I had to hold him back from getting the pliers out!!!
So off to the dentist we went...again...

waiting in the dental chair - last pic of tooth

injection time - our brave little boy

 tears from injection - those palate ones really sting...

laughing again while waiting for anaesthetic to work...no idea what's coming...

The tooth was actually pretty tough to get out because there wasn't much left for the pliers to grip, but Austin was so brave, he only cried a little bit. I mean the feeling of a tooth being pulled is horrible for anyone, but even more so when you are 4 and dont really know what's happening. We were so proud of him.

milkshake afterwards...he was so excited, kept smiling at us (much to our horror - its quite strange to see your little boy suddenly have no tooth) and looking at himself in mirror and talking about the tooth fairy coming...

putting tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy

sleep tight our brave little boy

the tooth fairy came that night but apparently she wasn't generous enough...austin came through in the morning all excited "mummy, daddy, guess what, the tooth fairy came, she came - but she only left me $1" 

...kids these days...