Brace Face--ERASE!

Check out this cute smile.......This is my little Ryan with his curly head of red hair and NO TEETH! Our Ryan has had teeth related stress for most of his little life. Let me explain:

He was almost a year old before he got his first tooth to come in.

Then sadly, he was in his third year of school before he lost his first tooth. Don't kids usually start loosing them in kindergarten? Boy, was he bummed when his little sister and best friend were losing teeth before him.

One fateful night the first loss finally occured. He was so thrilled! I thought we'd never get him to sleep. He lost the 2nd tooth the very next day during lunch at school. They were making up for lost time!So many losses and then so FEW teeth coming back in their place. Aaargh. The dentist ordered Ryan to serve the first of several "orthodontic sentences" at the ORTHODONTIST. What poorly behaved teeth were these new, BIG, and unruly teeth! The bottom two permanent teeth actually came in on the side where his canine should be. It didn't take out his canine, but rather pushed it to the front of his mouth. Poor kid and his teeth!
You can see in the above picture that his front two teeth came in and took out FOUR teeth in their wake. Then he had NO teeth come in on their sides. This was two years ago and he still doesn't have those other two teeth.

The picture below is Ryan with a fixed smile!! Yay, for braces. His front two teeth have been through obedience school and are now getting along together nicely! In fact they are doing so well, the Doc said it is time for his first "orthodontic sentence" to be complete. Braces are coming off today!

"Mom, take one more look. 'Cause that is the last you'll see of these babies!"Here is the staff at our orthodontist's office singing in celebration. Yay, Ryan! We are glad that you have few teeth troubles now.

Cute smile, huh? Now his next assignment from the Doc is to grow some teeth to fill in the sides. He's working on it!