Logan's 1st Dentist Appointment

Today Logan had his first dentist appointment. We waited a bit longer than 'normal', but it's been kinda a crazy year.

I went first & had to get x-rays. The technician was pretty great with kids; she put Bubble Guppies (kids tv show) on the ceiling tv and while I got x-rays she told Logan they would play a game running back & forth (so he wasn't exposed)& he thought it was fun. After running back. & forth 4 times she asked him how many times they ran and he said, 'too many!'. Haha - that kid. He watched intently as they did some minor scraping and then polishing. Logan asked me if I hurt. I told him no and that the polishing kind if tickled. They offered to start cleaning his teeth while I got mine polished and I declined as I didn't know how he'd handle it (glad I waited).

He had no problems getting in the big chair...kinda excited cuz Mickey Mouse was now on. He got to wear cool guitar sunglasses. Enter the dentist. Logan was scared and said it would hurt. We assured him it was just a mirror that he was looking to count his teeth - so he was okay. Doc counted his teeth - all 20 present and accounted for! Then....doc saw some tartar build up. I knew it was there and we had gotten better at brushing those two bottom teeth, but alas some scraping had to occur. Logan wasn 't a fan (who is?!) but he did well. He eventually did shed a couple tears and said 'mommy, I think I'm done'. So the dentist just scraped a bit more then said there was only a bit more that he would get at the next visit. We will just make sure we brush longer and concentrate on those front teeth.

Then the assistant came in to clean - again, she was great! She let him feel the motorized toothbrush on each of our fingers first and we giggled pretending it tickled. She mentioned that the toothpaste was bubble gum flavor (he hasn't had gum yet so I said it was like candy). She had him smell it and he approved. He was scared but she did a couple then he realized it wasn't so bad. He also got vitamins for his teeth (it is so much nicer that they can paint it on your teeth and it just leave it rather than those icky fluoride trays back when I was a kid....I hated those!).

All in all he did great! He got to pick a treasure from the treasure box & chose a green fish/shark pencil sharpener. :).