Jasmin's Tooth

About a year ago, Jasmin fell and banged her top tooth badly enough that it died.  Only we didn't realize that until much later!  So it was 2 months later after it turned grey that we had a dentist look at it.  All seemed fine, so we left it alone.  The other options presented to us seemed rather drastic at that point: a root canal (!) or to pull it out.  And until recently we heard nothing about it from Jasmin.

Then, a week ago, she started complaining it hurt to brush her teeth, to eat hard or cold  things. So, even though we couldn't see any changes (except that it looked less grey), we took her to the dentist.  An x-ray showed substantial deterioration, so we agreed to have it pulled. Sweet Jasmin was brave through it all and came home with a mouth full of gauze and a bag full of prizes from the dentist:a tiara, rings, bracelets, stickers, hair clips, and even her tooth that got pulled out!

So today she fills up on smoothies and frozen fruit popsicles, after having tried unsuccessfully to eat with her head tilted sideways to keep the food out of the gap. And experiments with the different sounds the extra gap makes. Unfortunately, her lisp is much more pronounced because of it, but it provides her with impetus to work on it herself more!