Tag: special needs dental challenges
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Checking Out For Two Weeks
An alternate title to this might be “welcome to the sometimes very scary world of special needs dentistry.” When you have a kiddo who needs sedation or anesthesia, even outside of a pandemic, you can wait months to get a cavity repaired. Even when a bigger chunk of the tooth is gone (as we encountered…
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Headed Into New Years With A Double Bang
Some of you might, but if the statistics are accurate, more than 70% of you didn’t. And, I didn’t either. So let’s take a closer look again: And here’s what I found out after watching sweet, innocent Bandit rub his nose into the stamens of the lilies in the bouquet Andy brought me and deciding…
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A Year of Gifts
So much of the gift giving in our communities is concentrated and condensed into days of prescribed celebration. But some of the best presents have trickled in bit by bit this past year, oft ill-wrapped by other circumstances and generally unannounced by fanfare, tags, or cards. Perhaps they are small compared to what some would…
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Dental Cleaning With Sedation: Prep & Updates
As I have briefly (for me, anyway) discussed before, dental visits and procedures are a bit different for Tony than your average kiddo. Portions of the exam and visit routinely handled without anesthetics or sedation absolutely require either of those for him to accomplish them at this time…for our son, his sensory differences, anxiety, ability…
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Delving Into the Latest Dental Visits
This will come as no surprise to those of you who have been reading with us for a while now, but Tony doesn’t like dentists any more than he likes doctors. We’ve not really discussed specifics much for his dental visits, in part because we’ve had years of experiences to talk about and I struggle…