When Belen was about a year old I had the foresight to ask my dentist at what age I should start taking her in to have her teeth cleaned and examined. They told me that 3 years old. So I waited until she turned 3 to take her in. Low and behold I had been misinformed...a pediatric dentist would have seen her much earlier and our insurance would have paid for her to see the dentist every 6 months as soon as she had 4 teeth...argh! Uh well...luckily Belen's teeth are healthy and she has no cavities! YAY! It was so good to get some advice from the pediatric dentist regarding some of the struggles we've had getting Belen's teeth brushed...let's just say it's not always her favorite thing in the world...
The dentist also recommended we give Belen some special zylitol gum to chew to help kill the bacteria that causes cavities and she also told us that we need to help Belen work on not sucking her thumb over this next year so there wont be any further misalignment of her teeth. She currently has a 90% overbite. Not good. Hopefully the process won't be too traumatic for her. I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures of Belen in the dentists office but I was able to get a nice shot of her super clean princess smile when we got home!
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awww, she's adorable! Caleb sucked his thumb until he was 4, even though we tried for 2 years to break his habit. It was SUCH a struggle and a fight, but we finally figured out how to help him: we made him a chart for stickers, with pictures of lego sets that he wanted all around it (he's obsessed with legos). For every day that he didn't suck his thumb at ALL he got to put a sticker on. It took about 2 weeks before he was consistantly getting to put stickers on each day. Then, after 40 stickers, we took him to the store and he got to pick out a big set. He was so proud of himself, and we were too! A year and a half later he still doesn't suck his thumb. Good luck with your girl!
So what advice did they give for brushing? Mia's started resisting. and Aspen has always been so easy with teeth brushing. I don't know what's best to do...
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