My front tooth

When I was in grade five I fell off my bicycle on the way home from school.  I smashed out my two front teeth.  Since about 1992 they have been kind of loose.  Every  year one or the other falls out and I look like...well you can imagine.  It really messes with my vanity since I am not bad looking....with the teeth in that is.

So anyway, finally my husband has a job that has a dental plan.  I have been so excited because my head has grown since grade five (I'm 33) and my teeth, well they stayed the same.  So since he started his job I have been anticipating October so I can go and take some dental action.  My one tooth has been very loose and I was hoping and praying that it would stick until then.  Then last week I found out that the six month wait for the plan to take effect begins after the three month probationary period, thus extending the wait until January.  My tooth did not hold.

I was at the dentist yesterday to have the thing pasted back in and what a bunch of drama awaited me there!  I had to take the kids in with me and since it only takes about 10 minutes to have the tooth reattached.  We all piled into the cubicle and I got comfortable in the dentist chair (I guess) and before I knew it my six year old hits the floor!

He fainted if you can believe it!  He turned out to be fine but I sure wasn't.  The dentist told me that to have my teeth repaired it would cost $10,000!  I guess the tooth was fractured and there was nothing to reattach the crown to and there was an infection to boot!!

So that so far is the end of that drama since I do not have that much money.  I guess I have some decisions to make.  Ugh.  As you can imagine I am pretty upset.  And O, about the tooth, I had the dentist go ahead and paste it in until I do make that decision but it is of course loose again already.  Until that moment however, I can still manage a smile.