Comments on: Dental school may be an option

By: Janine

Janine — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:25:04 +0000

We convinced James to pull out a “little tooth that wouldn’t” with pliers. His uncle was up doing some work on the house and James had been admiring his cool tool belt (probably a uniquely boy-thing). Fos got the idea for a manly story of how he once pulled a stubborn tooth out with tools. James was all over that – wanting to be “manly” like his dad (who, by the way, is kinda afraid of needles…). Fos sterilized the pliers, clamped the tooth, James grabbed the handles and yanked. Voila – tooth came out and James had a cool war story to tell all his friends.

By: anonymom

anonymom — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:04:37 +0000

My daughter (also Sophie) has stubborn teeth as well. We’ve had FIVE pulled by the dentist at $70 a pop. I would do it myself — I don’t have a “blood” problem, but she won’t let me near her. Last week was #5 and she nearly passed out when she removed the gauze. It took juice and much fussing to get her out the door. The tooth fairy left $5 (trauma price), and forgot to take the tooth. I told her that’s what happens when the fairy is cutting you off.

By: Ree

Ree — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:45:02 +0000

You are an awesome mom. I passed out simply trying to change the gauze in my son’s mouth after his wisdom teeth were extracted. Imagine – there I was, on the floor, and he had to get out of his sickbed to help me up.

AND then change his own gauze. Oh mah holy hell.

By: schmutzie

schmutzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:15:00 +0000

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By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:47:43 +0000

Teeth things make me gross in my whole stomach area. And it gives me the shivers, real bad. You must be a whole ‘nother kind of bad ass.

By: patois

patois — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:46:13 +0000

You are a braver soul than I am. I had to sit down just reading about it.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:42:53 +0000

Tell Sophie for me that my grandpa used to give us options, priced based on terror level. A penny for biting an apple, a nickle for one end of a string tied to the tooth and the other end tied to a doorknob… all the way up to 50 cents per try with the greasy old needle-nosed pliers from his workshop! Guess which one my cousins and I ALWAYS went for. And none of us died of blood poisoning.

And BTW, perhaps not coincidentally, one of my favorite Halloween costumes ever was the Tooth Fairy, complete with needle-nosed pliers (and eight-hole docs). What’s Sophie going to be this year?

By: meghann

meghann — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:11:11 +0000

Ouch! I feel your pain, literally. I blogged about having to do the exact same thing yesterday, lol!

By: Swistle

Swistle — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:02:49 +0000

Definitely worth $4.10. And I think we should have a photo of the giant root to admire. Maybe rinse the blood off first.

By: Amy @ Milk Breath & Margaritas

Amy @ Milk Breath & Margaritas — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:45:13 +0000

Hah! The post I have up right now is about my son losing his first tooth. With pictures!