Abscessed Tooth!

Ellie has an abscessed tooth. She has an appointment to have it pulled on October 24th. It looks like she will be getting her first visit from the tooth fairy.

@ first I thought she had a bad tooth from my bad parenting. But the dentist said it was a cavity under a filling she had done May 21st at "Mr. Flick's." He explained that medium sized fillings are risky because they may be fine with a large filling, but more often need a root canal. He said, unfortunately, that sometimes dentists fill hoping that's all it'll need.

She's going to need lots of other work, too. She'll have a couple of crowns and more fillings. She has some cavities on her front teeth from drinking a bottle for so long, but he's just going to leave them alone. She'll be losing those teeth soon enough and he thought it would be a waste of our money to cap them.

MY PRETTY BABY HAS MY WEAK TEETH! :( Grrrrrr!