tooth fairy -1-

Yesterday evening when Kate was eating watermelon,
"Ma, gigi Kathleen lepas. I didn't feel it at all. First I thought it was the watermelon seed. But it can't be. Watermelon seed is not that hard. I spat it out, and there was my tooth."

Last night Kate put the tooth under her pillow for the first time. We flushed down the 1st and 2nd tooth. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th were done by the dentist.

This morning when Kate checked under her pillow, she found a dollar coin instead of her tooth.

Kate: "It's real.."
Mum: "What is it?"
Kate: "Tooth fairy. Look ..." (showing the coin)

After a while,
Kate: "Or ... was that you, Mum? Or Daddy?"
Mum: "Udah sana, waktunya pergi sekolah. Nanti terlambat, loh."

ompong 4 - dentist addicted

Yesterday Mum rang up the school dentist to make appointment for Kate, again. The dentist was quite surprised as Kate had just seen her last week.

Well, it turns out that Kate prefers having tooth loss by dentist rather than let it out naturally. It was less pain, she said.

ompong 3

Unlike the first and second teeth, Kate was feeling very uncomfortable and sometimes having pain when the third tooth (left-lower-central-incisor) was quite wobbly and started to come up. So yesterday Mum rang the school dentist, and Kate came home with another ompong :D.

ompong 2

Finally ...

Kate's right-upper-central-incisor baby tooth fell out. It happened last night, right before dinner. Normally it takes about 6 weeks for the tooth to fall out, but this tooth took 10 weeks, while the first one took 1 day only :D.

Now both of her lower-central-incisor baby teeth are start moving. Let's see how long it struggles its way out.

(picture will be posted later)

ompong 1

"pake ompong"

dentist

Today we went to see dentist to ensure that the fall has not affected other areas of Kate's oral condition. It was quite late though, we were supposed to see dentist as soon as possible after the fall. But thank God, everything is fine.

So far we are satisfied with dental service for Kate. Today was the second time Kate went to see dentist. First time was last month when we found out there was a cavity on Kate's left-lower-tooth (M2). Mum only needed to call school dentist. A couple days later, the dentist called Kate and gave her dental treatment. Today the school dentist is closed, so we went to School Dental Centre at HPB. And both visits were not bad experiences for Kate. The dentists are so friendly, though Kate said that the filling treatment was painful (guessed it was the drilling process). However, Kate was fine whenever Mum mentioned about denist, dental appointment, etc. It is important, because Kate will need to go to school dentist for filling treatment at least one more time, to replace the temporary filling with permanent one.

And would you like to know other good part of this service?

They don't charge any single cents for these visits. Though the second visit was "nothing" but gave us relief, they only checked and said nothing to worry about.

tooth

"Mum, my front tooth could move.
It feels so funny."

It was Kate's upper central incisor tooth. This was her first experience and she was quite excited about it.

Usually, lower central incisors permanent teeth are the first to appear along with the first permanent molars. Perhaps it is different in Kate's case. Her first permanent molar teeth has appeared few months ago.

Yesterday when Kate was playing bicycle with her friends, rain started. Kate quickly paddled her bicycle faster, trying to get to shelter. Unfortunately, on the way to the shelter, she fell down together with the bicycle. There were some cuts on her upper lip, her upper gum was bleeding and one of her front tooth was gone! It was the tooth that Kate mentioned a day earlier.

We are not sure that the tooth completely fell out with the whole root. We couldn't see any on Kate's gum, but the falling tooth that Mum found later doesn't look as one-whole-tooth. Hope the new tooth that is growing will push the root out (if there's any left behind).