Brittany Estes

All I Want For Christmas….

Filed Under: Ethan, health, humor, parenting 7 Comments

…is my two front teeth. front tooth.

A little over a year ago we (I mean Ethan), had a little mishap.

Since then we have monitored his teeth, making sure they weren’t loose (he’s not supposed to lose them yet), discolored, or forming abscesses on the gums.

So for the past year this hypochondriac mother OBSESSED over those little suckers…we even took a trip back to the dentist a week after his accident because I noticed one of his teeth were getting darker. (We were told that could mean the tooth was dying.)

I had visions of him losing both front teeth and being a walking redneck joke, ha! Or paying out the wazoo to have a root canal done with implants that would ultimately be taken out when his big teeth needed to come in. 
Both sounded like nauseating options to me!
The dentist said it only looked like his tooth was bruised, but we wouldn’t know for sure until up to a year. However, the tooth would always stay dark…yuck! (he looked oh so classy!)

As the year passed, we thought his teeth were in the clear….until last week when I noticed a pimple like abscess on his gums.
My heart sank…
…and I called the dentist. He was so great to get us in on the Thursday before Christmas. But because of scheduling both Sam and I couldn’t go with Ethan…so I decided Sam should go. It ripped my heart in two to not be there with him, but I thought Sam would be more level headed and really grasp what the dentist was saying, as well as make the right decision if needed.
After an x-ray it was clear we had lost the battle with one tooth. (I know, it’s such a dramatic thing…”lost the battle”, haha!) That meant he would need it pulled……and they did it that day. Sam text me and told me the decision and I started to panic, sweat, cry, freak out. I was a HOT MESS!! (Obviously it was a good thing I wasn’t there, ha!)

Here is my brave boy moments before they ripped his tooth out of his mouth he lost a tooth.
Sam said he wasn’t nervous at all, partially because Sam coached him on this being a possible outcome. (The dentist was even impressed with how calm and knowledgable Ethan was about all of this, ha!)
What a good daddy!

Apparently Sam had to sign a waver saying the he wouldn’t take photos during the procedure…so he snuck some quick pics right after! 
That’s my man!

For what I hear it only lasted a few minutes, but being at home waiting to hear what was going on seemed like HOURS!!
Ethan never cried once, as a matter of fact he was watching cartoons while the dentist was doing his thing. He actually asked the dentist to move because he was blocking his view, ha!! And after it was all said and done, Ethan was insistent that I posted about his tooth on his blog…yep, that’s my kid!
And this is what my FIVE year old looks like now.
Yeah, you may be thinking what I’m thinking,
“I thought the dark tooth would have been the goner.”
Nope, we weren’t so lucky…that tooth is still hanging on.
For now!

So not only does this huge hole in his mouth where a tooth should be draw attention, but after that shock wears off you’re drawn to the nasty dark tooth beside the hole.

Precious.

Really, I’m destined to live in a trailer park, in rural Arkansas, with dead animals as decorations.

I pray it will at least be a double wide, thank-you-very-much!

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  2. Kelly says

    Awe Ethan!! He is so brave!! He looks so little in the photos from over a year ago. 🙂 We are going to have to do a funny session where you all have a blacked out tooth!! 🙂 LOL!!

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  3. ~she~ says

    At least he’s close to the age where teeth begin falling out.

    My son has a pimple-like thing on his gum…Hubby is flipping about it but I kind of didn’t pay much attention to it. I guess I’d better get that checked out!

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  5. nicole everett says

    Well he sure does look cute without it so no worries! Lol
    When my mom and bro and sis were in a car accident wayy in the day, one of my sisters front teeth like that died, and it never affected anything, except the look of it. And she was at the age were teeth fell out always. And so is Ethan, so you won’t have to deal with it much longer 🙂

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