http://www.tattooeddad.com/2007/09/05/a-real-dad-momentof-fear/ A journey through the mind Of a Tattooed Dad. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.tattooeddad.com/2007/09/05/a-real-dad-momentof-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 moonspun Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:14:31 +0000 http://blogs.tattooeddad.com/2007/09/05/a-real-dad-momentof-fear/#comment-1126 Oh my! A great dentist is a rare thing indeed from my experience, especially for kids. I hope it went ok. Lil moonspun's first dental experience ended with me clutching her to my chest and fleeing the office (I think she was 3) after the dentist shoved novacaine in her too harshly and then accused me of being a bad mother for telling him to stop. Good dentist finally happened here in Vermont. Though lil moonspun, through no fault of her eating habits has soft enamel and had 13, yes 13 cavities. Consequently and thanks to great kids state medical insurance, she went under general anthesia for 3 hours to have them filled and one actually removed. I wasn't really afraid when she went under, but it was something to see her then 5 year old body go limp under the anethesia and to see her afterwards in the hospital bed still asleep with oxygen across her face. There's nothing quite like that as a parent to make your knees week. Definitely one of the challenges as a parent is to mask your own fear and to talk in a calm voice when child voices theirs. I've got horrible, horrible memories of dental visits from my childhood and I never wanted my own child to have bad experiences. Luckily I think she is young enough that she doesn't remember the bad and she is proud of the spacer she has where the dentist took out her tooth in the hospital. Though the proof may be in the next visit if she has a cavity and it's just one...sigh...who knows what new medical adventures lie ahead? :roll: Oh my! A great dentist is a rare thing indeed from my experience, especially for kids. I hope it went ok. Lil moonspun’s first dental experience ended with me clutching her to my chest and fleeing the office (I think she was 3) after the dentist shoved novacaine in her too harshly and then accused me of being a bad mother for telling him to stop. Good dentist finally happened here in Vermont. Though lil moonspun, through no fault of her eating habits has soft enamel and had 13, yes 13 cavities. Consequently and thanks to great kids state medical insurance, she went under general anthesia for 3 hours to have them filled and one actually removed. I wasn’t really afraid when she went under, but it was something to see her then 5 year old body go limp under the anethesia and to see her afterwards in the hospital bed still asleep with oxygen across her face. There’s nothing quite like that as a parent to make your knees week.
Definitely one of the challenges as a parent is to mask your own fear and to talk in a calm voice when child voices theirs. I’ve got horrible, horrible memories of dental visits from my childhood and I never wanted my own child to have bad experiences. Luckily I think she is young enough that she doesn’t remember the bad and she is proud of the spacer she has where the dentist took out her tooth in the hospital. Though the proof may be in the next visit if she has a cavity and it’s just one…sigh…who knows what new medical adventures lie ahead?

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