Dental Fun

Today was Robbie's second and Henry's first visit to the dentist! Robbie did amazing, like he did last time. His dentist is simply wonderful. His front lower teeth are beginning to loosen so the Dr said to keep an eye out for that in the next year or so. Apparently when they start to loosen the back molars start to show up too so we are on the watch for that as well. Robbie's teeth are in great shape!

Henry, poor Henry hated it. Robbie smiles and laughs the whole time but Henry screamed the whole time. Not exaggerating. The. Whole. Time. They worked fast on him and he was done in about half the time as Robbie. His teeth also look great but his upper jaw not so. The upper jaw should be in a straight line. His left side slopes down. Dr Mike said, "It could cause speech problems." We told him that he was in speech and he said it makes sense and that he may not be able to form words properly with the left side being weaker because of how it is held and that Henry obviously uses the right to chew on things more and strengthen that side. So I called the ST and let her know so that we can be working on strengthening the left side and do what we can to help now. The dentist also said orthodontics will be in his future to fix it. Poor kid. It could have been caused by the way he chews his paci or it could have always been that way and he chews his paci like he does because of it. He doesn't know since he's never seen him before. However we are to wean it from him slowly.

By the time we left Robbie had every person there wrapped around his little finger and Henry had his arms wrapped around Daddy's neck and did not want to let go. He was very upset Chet was not coming home with us! A trip to the pet store set all to right with him :)