Seth's Tooth, Continued

Yesterday afternoon I took my parents out to Concordia at the end of the school day so the boys could show them around. Right as we got there Caleb announced that Seth had broken off his tooth again.

I hoped he was joking.

He wasn't. Apparently Seth bit into some chewy bread at lunch time, pulled at it a bit with his front teeth, and the next thing he knew the extension that had been added to his broken tooth just five days before was gone. He said he thought he heard something fall to the ground, but he wasn't sure.

We went on with our little tour of the school, and I called the dentist when we got home ninety minutes later.

The miracle of it all was that I had the dentist's personal cell number. Dr. Ti didn't answer when I called her number at first, so I was dealing with the appointment desk for the whole clinic (both medical and dental), and getting nowhere. Next Wednesday was the first available appointment. I tried the dentist again about 15 minutes later, and she said she was finished with her day, and she would wait for us to come in so that she could see Seth right away that night.

She started over with all the work she had done last week to seal the broken tooth and recreate the part that is missing. It is an amazing process, how she builds up the extension of the tooth with this mailable resin and a small tool, hardening it a bit at a time with a blue light. She did a beautiful job, again, and was also able to etch the existing tooth this time, since the tooth was not so sensitive as it was last week, which may help the extension hold better. She was pleased to see that the exposed nerve was still red, indicating that it is alive.

I thanked Dr. Ti profusely when we were walking out, both for the beautiful, careful work she did and also for staying late to accommodate us. She told me that she loves to do this kind of work, especially on front teeth, and then she told us there would be no charge for this visit.

Wow. All I could think was how God had gone before us. How else would we have received this kind of extra special care?

By the way, Seth now knows that he cannot use that tooth to bite down on anything. At least not until the tooth has developed enough for a more permanent cap!

At the entrance to Concordia, after the tour and before the dentist!