It all started with her complaining that her bottom set of teeth (at the front) hurt whenever she had her meal. We all thought that perhaps her milk teeth were turning shaky and going to fall soon, and asked her to be more careful when she ate. But whenever I asked her if the tooth was shaky, she said no .
One day, she requested to eat a banana before she left for school. We could see that she seemed to have great difficulty biting the banana, and suddenly exclaimed that there seemed to be blood on the banana. So I quickly used a torch to take a close look at her teeth and was astonished to see two tiny permanent teeth that were beginning to grow out behind her milk teeth!
Without any delay, I decided to call the Sunshine Dental to book an appointment for 28 Aug 2015 (Friday). The lady over the phone did sound me out that there might be a need to extract the two milk teeth to prevent overcrowding of the teeth. Frankly speaking, I was quite stressed and wondered how Le Xuan would react to it.
On the day of the dental visit, Mum and I brought her to the dental clinic, and was pleasantly surprised that it's a child friendly environment. Le Xuan zoomed immediately to the small playroom where she kept herself busy with the toys while I handled her registration. When it was time for her turn, the dentist even invited me and mum to go in while she had an interesting conversation with Le Xuan. The friendly dentist introduced Le Xuan to all her equipments, and obviously Le Xuan was fascinated with the whole system whenever she pressed any buttons or knobs. There was also a huge TV screen for her to select and watch a movie from a long list of selection provided by the dentist. Le Xuan looked so cute when the dental assistant put on a pair of kids' sunglasses for Le Xuan so as to reduce the glare to her eyes.
I must say that the dentist was really well trained and could handle kids very well. Even when she gave Le Xuan a jab (long needle!), or when she was using tweezers to extract the teeth (alot of blood!), Le Xuan didn't complain at all! She gave Le Xuan very clear and assuring instructions, and after the whole process, Le Xuan was delighted to be rewarded with 2 cute paper clips from the dentist! Haha and of course she got a reward from me too: A hot fudge sundae from Macdonalds!
I'm sure that Le Xuan's first dental visit didn't deter her from any possible visits again in future. So unlike our generation where most people have phobia visiting dentists who were generally deemed fierce and unkind. In fact, this little girl said she wants to be a dentist in future, LOL.
