Xavier Loses His First Baby Tooth
Greetings to everyone.
Wow, what a rite of passage.
For more than two years now, Xavier has been willing a loose tooth in his mouth. At least once a week we heard, "Dad! I have a loose tooth!"
His last visit to the dentist, he had such high hopes the dentist would pronounce the truth of his loose tooth.
Disappointingly for him, the dentist did not. Rather, he informed Xavier that when baby teeth stay in longer, it means healthier teeth, both baby teeth and adult teeth.
The constant mantra of "I have a loose tooth" became ignored background noise to us until the sixteenth of July this year.
Rebecca was at work, I was working from home and Xavier was playing Minecraft.
His constant talking to himself changed to an excited tone. "Dad, my tooth feels funny." He walked over with his finger in his mouth.
I took a look and was taken aback at what I saw. Behind his row of baby teeth, his first adult tooth, and it was nearly fully in.
And still, none of his baby teeth were loose. I called the Dentist and made an appointment to have it looked at.
The day after I made the appointment, one of the baby incisors in front of the new tooth loosened up. Over the course of the next week, it grew looser and looser.
The dentist was unconcerned with what he saw, and explained the balance of tension between the tongue and lips to move teeth into place. Of course, braces are not off the table either.
This morning, as Xavier stepped down into Middle Earth on his way to play Minecraft. "Dad!" he called excitedly. "It came out!"
We asked the dentist if he knew what the going rate the Tooth Fairy was paying out was. He only said he thought the cleaner the tooth, the more money.
Xavier, this morning, has gone from his hopes at one dollar to three or possibly four dollars because his tooth is healthy and clean.