Carter has known about this for almost two months. He'd randomly think about it and get very nervous. He's our worrier so waiting has been tough for him. As expected, he was VERY nervous today. He told me on the way home from swim team practice that the only thing that calmed him down was music. So we quickly loaded some music onto one of my old phones and found his headphones to use before and during his appointment.
Luckily (as I had told him) the actual removal was a hundred times easier than everything he was imagining. We decided to do nitrous since Carter was so nervous and that may or may not have helped. The dentist applied numbing gel and waited 10 minutes to do the shots. Carter felt a few tiny pinches but didn't even flinch. Then after each tooth was removed, he'd say "Wow, that didn't hurt!". The dentist did the top two teeth and then asked Carter if he should go ahead and do the bottom two or do them at another appointment. Carter was good with going ahead and doing them all.
He totally milked it for sympathy in this picture on our way home!
Because he looked like this as soon as he spit out the gauze.
You can sort of see the holes in Carter's mouth in these pictures.
Carter should be starting lower braces and an expander soon.
The canines had a lot big roots than the incisors!
Now Carter is excited to see how nice the tooth fairy is tonight!
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