Sage’s New Teeth

As we all know- Sage’s two front teeth have cavities in them. This has nothing  to do with her and what she has eaten since the day she was born. It actually has something to do with me when I was pregnant with her. Apparently, in utero, children develop their teeth and if there are any complications in pregnancy, the development of their teeth can be affected. While I didn’t have any complications, the dentist strongly believes that is the reason for her baby teeth being sensitive to cavities. We spent a little over a year delaying any procedure to fix her tooth and decided it was time to fix it before it gets worse. According to the x-rays, her nerve in the tooth was starting to form the same shape her decayed tooth was. Chances are, she wouldn’t lose the tooth until she was about 8 years old. We figured it was best to just fix it now.

Even though the procedure was simple, it would have been very difficult for a 4 year old. She would have had to have novocain shots in her mouth which could have been devastating and delayed the procedure even longer. We all thought it was best to put her under to get everything fixed and look for other things in her mouth at that time.

The day had come to go to the hospital and get her teeth fixed. We did our best to not really talk about it but keep it simple that we were going to a doctor to get her “broken” tooth fixed. The hard part for me, was that she couldn’t eat or drink anything that morning.

As with anything that is planned and ready to go- things got changed and delayed. Our appointment got pushed back two hours!!! At least we knew this the night before and made adjustments to her eating and going to bed. That morning, we kept her busy and distracted. Once we were there, we continued to keep her distracted and busy, as once again, we got delayed another hour.

Needless to say, Sage was amazing and just awesome! Every nurse and anesthesiologist was amazing. We got a wonderful man who had kids himself that have been under too- so he knew exactly as a parent how we were feeling.

They gave Sage a little medicine to help calm her which also made her a little silly! It was time and they wheeled her away. She was happy and said goodbye! The procedure took about 40 minutes. It was the part of her waking up that took the longest. She spent a whole hour trying to wake up.

She eventually kind of woke up, was able to drink water and suck on a popsicle. Her voice was rasping from a breathing tube and she had a wet cough. She didn’t get sick at all, but just was extremely tired!!!

She spent most of the day sleeping it off and resting while watching cartoons.

I’m glad we decided to fix it! She looks different, in my opinion and her smile is just a beautiful as it was before!!!

Thanks to my mom who came up and helped us out for the week and taking Evan to and from school!