Milk Teeth

It feels like we've been making a lot of trips to the dentist lately.  Scarlett got her first ever cavity, the first of any of the kids, a few months ago and we went for three appointments to get it filled.  Why do they work on the cavity little each time, instead of all in one appointment?  I have no idea, I think it is more common her in Japan.  She was just getting one cavity filled on a milk tooth.  

It took me a little bit to figure out what a milk tooth even was, I've only heard them called baby teeth before.  Our insurance doesn't cover any cavities, so I wasn't thrilled with paying for a cavity on a wiggly tooth.  Then they were talking about how it was a big cavity so we need a crown and I had to decline that.  We have extra FSA money to spend this year, but I still didn't want to waste it on a crown that could fall out any day.

Instead we decided to buy a spacer for Leon.  We normally wouldn't have done it, I kind of just want to wait and see how the kids teeth turn out before we do any ortho work but we literally had over a thousand dollars to spend and only a few days left in the year.  We debated buying really nice first aid kits but hopefully in the end the spacer will be worth it.  The dentist kept saying that Leon has really big teeth.

 Here he is getting an x-ray so they could make a mold of his mouth.

Calista and Beatrix love the little play place at the dentist.  We literally fill up the whole waiting room.  When I was finishing up the receptionist spent a while translating something in English to tell me and then when she showed me her computer it said something like, "Next time just talking so only mom need come."  Haha, the kids were pretty well behaved so I don't think that was meant to discourage me from bringing the kids but it did make me think.   I ended up bringing everyone again because we were meeting Bob for lunch afterwards.  It worked out though, the one other person in the waiting room told me she gives me her respect for having six kids.