[fifeboy]

Brenda wrote:

What I don't understand, is that there was no care afterwards. Having 7 teeth pulled at once... How the hell do you expect anybody to eat?? Let alone an 8 year old?

A friend of mine had his adult teeth pulled, and he was on a liquid diet for weeks! WHY wasn't she admitted? WHY did noone freakin LISTEN??

I agree with you on this Brenda, except that deciduous teeth are much less sensitive and much shallower rooted than adult teeth. Removal of the milk teeth would be a lot less catastrophic than loss of adult teeth. That said, I still can't see why something was not done. It appears that everyone is at blame.

[fifeboy]

Zipperfish wrote:

And for chris'sake avoid child psychologists at all costs. I'd take the word of pygmy witchdoctor over a child psychologist.

Wow, we can agree on this one. My wife and I adopted 5 kids, the youngest was 18 mo. at adoption, the oldest just short of 4. Of course they came from problem homes and we had quite a few visits to child psychologists. What a useless appendage to society these guys are. Local elders are much more practical and useful when trying to help children.

[fifeboy]

lily wrote:

fifeboy wrote:

Brenda wrote:

What I don't understand, is that there was no care afterwards. Having 7 teeth pulled at once... How the hell do you expect anybody to eat?? Let alone an 8 year old?

A friend of mine had his adult teeth pulled, and he was on a liquid diet for weeks! WHY wasn't she admitted? WHY did noone freakin LISTEN??

I agree with you on this Brenda, except that deciduous teeth are much less sensitive and much shallower rooted than adult teeth. Removal of the milk teeth would be a lot less catastrophic than loss of adult teeth. That said, I still can't see why something was not done. It appears that everyone is at blame.

Baby teeth are more shallow-rooted, but they're not les sensitive. In fact, you could argue that they're more sensitive, having a larger pulp chamber. 10% of American dentists don't freeze baby teeth when they work on them, thinking they're "only beby teeth" - yet they have nerves and kids certainly feel pain.

Normally removal of deciduous teeth is pretty routine, but most of this girl's were removed to prevent future problems. They weren't necessarily ready, and sometimes the roots are "caught" between the adult teeth and haven't been reabsorbed yet.

Well, I am not a dentist and am only going on what I have seen.

[fifeboy]

lily wrote:

I'm not a dentist either.

You're right for the most part, but when a baby tooth isn't "ready" to come out, it isn't always a "routine" extraction. My son had to see a specialist to remove one of his because one of three roots was trapped in between the 2 incoming adult teeth.

Ouch, I have an aversion to dentists that started when I was a kid. I meet a guy at a party, find him to be nice and then find he is a dentist, I want to get away from him asap.

[fifeboy]

lily wrote:

Yeah, I see people like you all the time. Part of my job is to help people feel relaxed and reasonably comfotable.

I feel comfortable already! Must be the hot tub

[Tricks]

Zipperfish wrote:

And for chris'sake avoid child psychologists at all costs. I'd take the word of pygmy witchdoctor over a child psychologist.

BITCH!

[DerbyX]

lily wrote:

I'm not a dentist either.

You're right for the most part, but when a baby tooth isn't "ready" to come out, it isn't always a "routine" extraction. My son had to see a specialist to remove one of his because one of three roots was trapped in between the 2 incoming adult teeth.

I actually remember loosing most of my baby teeth. We actually did the old string and door technique for one of them.

[llama66]

It takes something like 3 weeks for an adult to starve (I'm not sure if its the same for a child) but after a week the parents should have taken that little girl into the Hospital after the first week, she needed a G-Tube...