Bright and early this morning we took Jackson to the Dental Anesthesia office to have him put under, so we could get dental x-rays and also fill two cavities on the backs of his upper front teeth. The staff was very friendly and talked us through everything. Dan and I went back with Jackson and we gave him some extra snuggles. While we distracted him with snuggles and his favorite YouTube stars, Ethan and Cole, the dentist gave him a shot to help sedate him. Jackson melted into his Daddy’s arms and quickly was ready to be moved to the dentist chair.
We went back to the waiting room and waited to hear any update. They came out about 20 minutes later to let us know they got his x-rays and didn’t see any other cavities, but they did notice he had some extra tissue from his lip that connected in between his two upper teeth. We were told that this also impacts speech delays, which obviously we have those with Fragile X already, but it appears he had something else to battle that we didn’t know about. The dentist offered to perform a Maxillary Frenectomy while he was sedated, so we took him up on that. What that means is they cut back this extra tissue to give him more mobility with his mouth. We will do anything to help this guy out!
After everything was done we were brought back to hold him while he woke up. He took a while to open his eyes and was moaning a lot. He did finally open his eyes, so the dentist and his assistants could get a look at his eyes to say we were ok to leave. They walked us to our car and we headed home.
The car ride had a lot of tears and moaning, but we got home and started the Ibuprofen/Tylenol routine and he went down for a nap. After 2 hours, he woke up and we took a bath, his favorite thing to do. I worked on washing off the bandage sticky marks he had and cleaned up his face ever so gently and washed off the latex/mediciney smell of the dentist office. He has been home for almost 4 hours and in great spirits. We will continue with the Ibuprofen/Tylenol through the night and see how he feels tomorrow. Overall he did incredible! He has a little sticky bandage residue left on him and a few red spots on his cheeks from some of the medical tape, but this guy is my hero every single day of the week.
Thank you for all the kind words, texts, emails, thoughts and prayers. While this might seem routine for some or not a huge deal for others to see your 3 year old that already faces struggles every day of his life, this was a stressful event, but he is so amazing and did great.
XOXO
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