~Normal is just a setting on the washing machine~: Mesiodens

Our whole life is about having extra things....extra chromosomes, extra holes in things that shouldn't have extra holes, and now extra teeth. While taking Stetson to the dentist over the past few visits, the xrays have shown that there was something abnormal in his upper jaw. His jaw is so mis-shapen that its so hard to get a good panoramic xray. But we tried as hard as we could and could tell that something was just not right. After many attempts they decided that he had what is called Mesiodens . These are extra teeth, so he had 4 front teeth instead of 2, and they would have to come out for the rest of his permanent teeth to come in right. We went to the surgery center because they had a few small cavities that need filled also by his regular dentist and the extra teeth needed removed by the oral surgeon. Our day was crazy, Blake was out of town, we woke up late and since I can never sleep before the kids have procedures I was exhausted. Everything went good with the surgery, but man oh man was he mad when he got back to me. They slit his upper gums and rolled them back to reveal and remove the extra teeth then stitched the gums back down. He was so mad and bleeding all over the place. We were able to go home shortly after he got out of recovery and he did really good afterward. He has a very high pain tolerance and didn't complain much about pain. The next few days the poor little guy looked like he got in a fist fight, he was so swollen and had a huge black eye. He still has stitches in for a while until they fall out but his teeth are starting to move into place already. He is going to look so different with front teeth, it has been years since he has had them.