Zoë Needs Oral Surgery

Baby girl has pretty bad cavities and needs a root canal on a few molars. Yikes!

Her procedure was set for today. First, they wanted to take extra x-rays to confirm that she definitely needs root canals on the two molars since the previous x-rays were slightly blurry. She was super anxious at first, but Jeric helped calm her nerves and even made her smile!

She was supposed to have oral sedation since we were very against IV sedation (we didn't want to put her to sleep at such an early age). Of course, they failed to let us know that she also needs to be 30 lbs in order to take the oral sedation. They should've noticed that she's pretty tiny for her age at her last visit and weighed her then. But they didn't. Well, when they weighed her today, she was 29.2 lbs. Ugh. There was no giving her oral sedation. Since that was no longer an option and we were adamant with not having her put to sleep for the procedure, they offered us a step below Oral sedation, which is good ol' laughing gas. We figured that since we were here, we might as well give it a try.

The dental assistant also informed us that they would only be wrapping her shoulders down and not her arms and hands/legs unless it was necessary. When we were brought in to the Nitrous Oxide room, they did start off just wrapping her shoulders down.

But they didn't even start any procedure yet. Instead, they took more x-rays. Then, when it was time to have her breath in the Nitroux Oxide gas, they had me step out of the room and then wrapped her whole body up!

That already started to freak her out because she felt restrained. Then, when they put the Nitrous Oxide mask over her, she hated it. It was so sad too. I was outside of the room and I heard her little pleas for us to help her. She wanted out of the restraining wraps and the Nitrous Oxide mask off her face. It was even worse because she had to calm down so that they slowly switched out of Nitrous Oxide and had her breath in Oxygen instead so that the remaining Nitrous Oxide clears out. Of course, they also had to have her calm down and stop crying so that she can breathe in the Oxygen properly. Luckily, she calmed down and they were able to take off the mask within reasonable time.

This meant no oral surgery today and we opted to wait until after the holidays to see if she's at the 30lb limit so that she can have the oral sedation. But I really don't know how she's going to react since this was super traumatic. Poor baby girl.

Zoë's Dental Visit

Baby girl has her specialist visit today.

She did so good with the x-rays!

Sadly, when it came down to cleaning, she was not having it. Look at her poor sad face.

Looks like she was traumatized from the last visit with the non-specialist. The dental assistant that cleaned her teeth then wasn't super gentle and also made her hold the spit vacuum! So, the dental assistant here decided to not clean her teeth and used a real tooth brush to pretend to brush in hopes that it would alleviate some of the trauma. That did help calm her down today, but we'll see how she does for future visits.

Zoë Has Cavities, Oh No!

We noticed that Zoë's teeth had little grey spots on them and after googling it, it said it's most likely cavities. I booked her a dentist appointment immediately and they had her scheduled for today.

Since they had nothing available on Saturdays and were really only open on Mondays and Thursdays, we had no choice but to schedule the latest appointment possible on a Monday.

Luckily Jeric gets off at 4:00 pm and was able to get to the dentist 10 minutes before her appointment. I went straight there after work to meet them up and arrived only 5 minutes after her scheduled appointment. We waited and waited and Zoë started getting antsy and bored. We even tried giving her our phones and she also played with the few toddler toys lying around, but neither of those kept her attention for too long. I mean, it was already an hour after her scheduled appointment!

I went up to the receptionist to see how much longer it was going to be and she straight up said that it's a 3 hour wait on average. What?!?!?! OMG that's unbelievably ridiculous.

Anyways, we couldn't turn back now and after waiting almost 2 hours, we were finally seen.

Poor Zoë she was all smiles and wasn't sure what she was in for.


The dentist confirmed that she definitely has cavities. But, they said they can't take x-rays since she's a toddler, so all they did was cleaning. The last time Zoë had her teeth cleaned here, the dentist was really gentle. This time, not so much. Plus, she had Zoë hold onto the spit vacuum. Uhhh, she's a four year old! What are you doing giving that to her??? I think that really made the teeth cleaning a bad experience for Zoë. She was crying out for me as they cleaned her teeth and all I could do was hold her hand and try to help her with the spit vacuum.

In the end, they didn't have conclusive evidence of Zoë's cavities, so we were told we needed to see a specialist.

Zoë's 1st Dental Visit

Zoë turns 3 and she finally gets to visit the dentist! We are hoping that she doesn't freak out.

Since she's only 3, they only took a few x-rays. Mommy and Daddy couldn't be in the room while they actually took the x-rays because of exposure and whatnot. We were kinda worried about her getting too early of an exposure, but e did do a little research and found that it's perfectly okay at this age. None-the-less we got a super cute pic of her before the x-rays were taken.

She looks so witto!

Now time to get ready for cleaning/inspecting her pretty little teeth.

She actually didn't have extensive cleaning because she's still young. Instead, the Dental Assistant let her pick her flouride flavor and just polished away. Baby girl chose grape of course!

She even got to hold her own suction device to get all the excess flouride and salive.

Then it was time for the Dentist to come in and check all her teeth for cavaties.

Baby girl did so good! She never complained or whined throughout the entire visit. Even the Dentist and Dental Assistant were surprised at how good she was.

You go little girl!