We had a play date with some new friends on Wednesday. I work with their mom (Amy) at one of my schools, she teaches kindergarten. They live just down the road and their oldest boy (Eddie) is just a bit older than Leland, but they will go to kindergarten together in the fall. Their youngest (Levi) is only 12 days older than Sutton. They had only been here about an hour when Leland and Levi had a head on collision. The result, Leland lost a bottom tooth!! It was hanging on by a thread, but I just couldn't pull it out so Leland being so brave finished pulling it out. For quite awhile after it came out he walked around sucking/chewing on a wash cloth. He finally gave it up, but by then it was pretty yucky. Then he wouldn't eat lunch. After our company left we called the dentist and they wanted to see him. An x-ray revealed that the tooth had broken off, so a big piece was still left in his gum. It needed to be removed. The dentist offered nitrous, but I opted to try it the conventional way first. Leland never having had any dental work done before had no idea what was about to happen so that probably helped. It was definitely not enjoyable for him, but he was a trooper. The dentist was able to get the piece out without bothering the tooth next door, which is also very loose. The dentist wants to give it some time to see if it will tighten back up. It was bleeding pretty bad when we left the dentist office so they had him bite on a piece of gauze. When I offered to take it out he didn't want to, he was afraid it would hurt. So he rode all the way home with the yucky gauze in his mouth, he even fell asleep with it there. Thankfully when we got home he agreed to eat and he has been eating ever since. All in all Leland did very well and was excited the next morning to find $5.00 left for him.
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