Anna's New Teeth

AFTER THE CROWNS very fake smile. She's so silly. No more corn on the cob, apples (unless peeled), celery sticks or carrot sticks for her. She can still have corn, just cut off the cob, and apples, cut up, and celery and carrot, maybe, but just cut a lot smaller. We just have to be careful!

BEFORE THE CROWNS The front tooth with the big hole in it, the one right beside it, and then the other tooth beside the other front tooth... 3 teeth fixed with porcelain crowns. We had them crowned because they could not be filled, and the dentist would not just pull them. She broke them once when she was 2, then got some decay where they were broken from nighttime nursing (sort of like bottle rot, minus the bottles...) and then she fell again last May in a hotel room and further broke them. I am very happy with the work he did, and maybe now, I won't have to answer the WHAT HAPPENED TO HER TEETH??? question. And, yes, we had to get them fixed, our other option was to just let them get more and more decayed, and that could have led to abscesses eventually.

AFTER THE CROWNS (This picture is a little creepy, like we got beauty pageant work done on her teeth. They really look very natural, not like this picture... She is trying too hard to show her teeth!)

BEFORE THE CROWNS (She still looks like a princess, either way!)

Anna had her princess crowns put on this week! When they told her they were going to put crowns on her teeth back in June, she decided they must be princess crowns. Anna did a great job at the dentist, we were all very proud of her. She was pretty funny at first after she had the laughing gas when we took her home, but later, she developed a very frightening, angry edge to her personality. My mom's neighbor said, Oh, she's just coming down off those drugs. Great! But by the next morning, she was back to normal. I stayed up really late and then slept with her with her light on because I was feeling nervous that she had been under sedation. But all was well! And since she has not gotten any more cavities, hopefully this will be the last of it.