Zoe’s Tooth

Zoe has a new smile as of June 9th. She fell last March (2020) and chipped her tooth right when quarantine started. I had to call the dentist emergency line (since they were closed due to COVID) and send them a picture. They said it looked fine and as long as she wasn’t complaining about it, she should be fine. Well, she and Ava were playing recently and she bumped that tooth again. She started complaining that it hurt and didn’t want us to brush it. The timing was good because she had her regular cleaning coming up. When I mentioned it to the dentist, she noticed that there was a bulge on her gum and suspected it was getting infected. The x-ray confirmed that it was probably infected so we scheduled an appointment to pull it later in the summer. Well, two days later she started running a fever with no other symptoms. DJ thankfully had the idea to call the dentist and they said that yes, the tooth could be causing the fever and it needed to come out. They put her on antibiotics and scheduled her for the following week. It was a very traumatic experience for mama and daddy but Zoe doesn’t remember a thing. She was high on the medicine they gave her to forget everything…she even said the characters were coming out of the TV she was watching while we were waiting for the meds to take full effect, haha. There was a lot of screaming (mainly to get out of the straps they put her in to keep her still) and lots of tears (Zoe and mama) but she doesn’t remember a bit of it. Now we just have to wait a few years for the big girl tooth to come in. She looks super cute with her little gap tooth grin!