Oral surgery at 10?

Today was a rough day for "little" Tanner. (You know sometimes it is easy to forget that 10 is still "little". ) A couple of weeks ago our orthodontist was concerned because Tanner was missing some molars that should have erupted and they have not. He decided to do an x-ray to see what was going on. The discovery...... his wisdom teeth were blocking the molars and had pushed the molars sideways into the teeth in front. It was decided that we needed to proceed with oral surgery to remove them. If we waited the roots of the molars would fuse to the jaw bone and then that would be more problems in the future. Poor kiddo was so nervous (and the office was running about 15 minutes behind) he was hopping around the reception room. I tried to get him to sit still but there was going to be none of that. (if you look closely you can see nervous written all over his handsome "little" face).



It was extremely successful and they were able to get all four removed along with up-righting the molars. He struggled a bit coming out of anesthesia. (He wanted to keep sleeping and tried to convince the entire office that there were more fish in the fish tank than any of them could see!) The doctors and staff were fabulous. They took such great care of him and, of course, loved my "little" brown eyed man!!! They warned me that when he gets older I am going to be in big trouble. (he will be a big ladies man) I think a couple of the nurses would take him home now if they could. I am so proud of Tanner he did great and as always did his best to smile through whatever comes at him. Sleep well our "little" man!!!