Loose Tooth

An ongoing drama in our household this summer has involved Grace's wiggly teeth. Now, Grace has always done things in her own time and in her own way. A prime example of this is that she didn't get any teeth until she was 14 months old, and when she did get her first teeth, it was her molars! Being that she was so late getting her baby teeth, I wasn't sure what to expect with losing them, but it didn't surprise me that the first grade came and went without any sign of a wiggly tooth. Then, oh happy day, there came a day when suddenly all four of her front teeth were slightly wiggly. I didn't think they would fall out before grade 2 because they were just barely wiggly, but much to Grace's delight, I was wrong!

Here are some pictures we took at the end of July, trying to show how very loose her bottom right tooth had become.

Before the said tooth actually fell out, we noticed that the adult tooth was already coming up, a few millimeters behind the baby tooth. This would have caused me great distress if I hadn't had a friend tell me just a few weeks before about her daughter having the same issue and the adult tooth moved forward just fine once the baby tooth was out. In the case of my friend, the baby tooth had to be pulled out by the dentist though, which concerned us a little since we have no dental coverage right now. However, I think knowing about Alanna's tooth was a good motivator for Grace, who hates going to the dentist, and she helped her wiggly tooth along so that it came out without the help of the dentist! :)

Here she is, pleased as punch with the new hole in her mouth. And you can see in this picture that her top tooth is pretty loose too.
This past week Grace lost her other bottom front tooth but that snaggle-tooth on the top is still hanging in there. :)