Toothless Grin

Mara is now minus one tooth. Her tooth was loosening, but we didn't see it coming out soon. So, we took her to the dentist yesterday and had the tooth pulled. She did great and didn't even cry. They didn't let us stay in the room while the dentist pulled it, but we could hear her jabbering away the whole time all the way in the waiting room. Afterward, the dentist said they had a hard time getting her quiet enough to pull the tooth.

It will take a while for her gums to heal, but she seems to be managing pretty well. She on a pseudo-soft food diet (no chips, nuts, popcorn, anything that can get in the hole in her gums) until her gums heal in a week or so.

Her last picture with all of her baby teeth.

Wearing her "airplane nose" with the laughing gas.

After the tooth was removed.

Her x-ray from her last visit. (Notice how the tooth on the left in the x-ray is missing part of the root – basically it broke off when she hit it on the coffee table.)

We treated her to a trip to Toys R Us to get a new DS game and a DVD for doing so well. Then, we went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner. In the first picture, she's showing off the hole in her gums. That should heal in about a week or so, and her gums will eventually grow back and even out too.

One day after getting her tooth pulled.