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Mac began his first day of big dental work this a.m.
This is the first of three appliances that he will have. Once we get past the appliances, he will be getting braces on.
The whole process, with braces will take about 2.5 years!
This first one will be widening the top of his mouth and prepping for when they bring his bottom jaw forward with appliance # 2.
Poor kid! He has a long road ahead that is full of dental appt's, discomfort and some pain.
It all needs to be done, so we'll just plow thru it like everything else.
If we don't take care of it, he will likely end up with severe TMJ as an adult and need surgery to correct it, which from what I hear, is VERY PAINFUL!
He looks like he has "buck teeth", but he actually doesn't. His front teeth are where they are suppose to be. His bottom jaw never moved forward with the rest of his mouth, so all his bottom teeth are back too far and his bottom jaw never widened.
Anyhow, we will hopefully get it all fixed over the next two years or so.
It's insane how expensive this process is...but,
kids are expensive (:
I embarrassed him because I wanted a picture and after I took it, I said "good thing you don't have any boogers up your nose!"
He didn't think that comment was very funny!