Dentist

I took Austin to his first dental visit on Friday.  He has been complaining about a tooth hurting for the past few weeks & after realizing that it was always the tooth that is chipped, we decided that it was time for a visit with Dr. Hoffman.  

Austin did GREAT.  The nurse wanted to take an X-Ray of his chipped tooth, and after three tries, they finally got a good enough shot.  He was a trooper & decided he really liked the X-Ray shield "bib" that they put over him during the X-Ray; he laughed every time they laid it on him!

Dr. Hoffman looked at the X-Ray & everything seemed to be fine!  The nurse was afraid that the tooth was dying (she thought it looked a little different in color than the others), but the X-Ray confirmed that it is not dying & that it's still a very healthy tooth.  We even got to see his "adult" teeth that are in waiting up in his gums -- they're HUGE!  Poor little guy had better get some more years on him before those decide to start popping through! 

We didn't schedule a cleaning or anything yet; we'll do that in another year or so.  But, Dr. Hoffman thought he did a great job & took him to the treasure chest where Austin got to pick out a few new stickers & a cool yo-yo for his job well done.  He was pretty excited...