Going to the dentist
This morning, little Mer went to the dentist to have his teeth checked and did some filling. This is the first time ever that he steps into a dental clinic. He has been a very brave boy and been very good boy. Quite all through the process and nodding while being ask if he is okay. The dentist has been very kind to him, explaining to him what he is going to do with his teeth, what are the equipment that he is going to use and also what do the equipments can do. The dentist also advising me and him not to go to bed straight after milk, but have to clean his teeth before bed.
I’ve been reading to both Mer and Cal about going to dentist, they love the book “Harry and the dinosaurs say Rahhhh…”. Since I discovered that there seems to be a hole in Mer’s molar, I’ve been telling him that he’ll need to go to the dentist one day, he started bugging me about that and eagerly wanted to go there to have his teeth check!
The dentist discovered that he actually has a few holes that need to be filled, mostly due to the residue of milk on his teeth. He gets this because he normally have milk right before bed time and sometimes he went to sleep with the bottle still on his mouth! Really bad habit, what more he woke up for milk sometimes in the middle of the night and straight went back to sleep after that. So the advice now is to have him clean his teeth before bed and let him have some water after the mid-night feed (which he can skip).
Seeing here is the dentist explaining to Mer what the equipment can do.
Here the dentist clean his teeth thoroughly before the filling.
Mer didn’t even jolt a bit when the drill is on his teeth! What a sweetie and brave boy. Since there are still some other area that need to be filled up, we’ll need to go back again. I wonder what he’ll tell Cal tonight.
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