There’s a first for everything

In all of our years of dental visits, we have never had one turn out even close to the way it did for poor Henry.

At the end of February, we had to take Henry in to get some cavities filled. The actual visit went well. He drank some special potion and then drifted off to happy land as they fixed his teeth. Steve brought him home and things were great. He wasn’t even upset or anything.

Except, he was hungry. Really hungry, because he had to skip breakfast. What do you feed a hungry little 3 year old boy with a super numbed up cheek? Well fruit loops of course. So, Steve made him a nice big bowl of cereal to chow down on.

(I will refrain from any type of negative comment here. I will only mention that I strongly urged Steve to give him some apple sauce or yogurt, but Henry wanted cereal, so he got cereal.)

I’m sure Henry didn’t even have a clue that he was chewing up the inside of his cheek, not even when blood was oozing out of his mouth like drool. I walked into the kitchen to find the gruesome site and knew that it was going to be bad.

So what does it look like when this happens?

 
I know it looks like the camera was at a funny angle, or that there was some sort of fish bowl effect going on, but no, it’s his swollen cheek.

It a rough week for my poor little guy. When the Novocain wore off, there was much pain for him. Not only did his teeth hurt, but the cankers that had formed on his cheek were awful. We had to endure never ending cries of, “ My cheek, my cheek, my cheek, ow ow, my cheek!”

This picture was taken a couple of days after the trauma.

He was still a little swollen

Luckily, he is all back to normal now, but it was pretty bad there for a while.