My
brother Alistair was by this time having some interesting problems with his
teeth, probably even more interesting than mine when I fell against the bath
and knocked one of my front teeth out, needless to say, the OSO sprang into
action and pushed it straight back in again before I had time to object; and
yes, it stayed there though it did mean a trip to the dentist to make sure it
was ok, I actually think he was quite impressed with Mum’s quick action (as you
know she never does anything slowly!) and to be honest I was quite chuffed and
somewhat surprised she got it in the right way up!
Anyway
(oh, and I’ve got another blog to tell you about Roger’s oriental teeth!)
Alistair lost his baby front teeth as you do, and then no other teeth came
through as you would have expected. Eventually the OSO noticed the delay in the
lack of emergence of the second teeth and took Al to the dentist. He x rayed
Al’s mouth and yes, he had some more teeth waiting to come through, but not two
as you would have expected, but four! They were sort of layered up like shark’s
teeth sitting parallel to each other and therefore they couldn’t break through
the gum and emerge. If I was a cleverer blogger I am sure I could find a
picture or something to show you what I mean, but typically the OSO didn’t take
a photo. Let’s hope you get the idea anyway.
So,
Alistair had to go into hospital for a day to have an operation to dig out the
spare set of teeth so he was just left with two (ugh!). He also had little
chains attached to the remaining teeth which then had to be attached to a brace
and then tightened bit by bit to pull the teeth out very gradually. I do hope
you are getting all this!
I
think he quite liked the day in hospital, he couldn’t come home until he had
eaten a bowl of weetabix, bit tough as he didn’t like them ! Eventually his
new and very smart front teeth did emerge, and unlike me, he hasn’t yet managed
to knock one of them out yet!
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