Dental Visit..

This morning I took all 3 kids to see the dentist.I really can not say enough how AWESOME this place is.The whole office is painted and decorated in an outdoor theme and every single room is kid friendly.The Hygienist took us back and showed us happy mouths and sad mouths and what each mouth eats that makes it sad or happy.Afterwards they gave them all new toothbrushes and let them choose between 6 different character toothpaste and showed them how to brush properly.Let me just say say these people were WONDERFUL with children.
Before they had their cleaning she let all the kids use the actual polisher , water and suction on these animal models to show them what she would be doing to them.They loved being able to touch and use the equipment!
Austin and Alex had x-rays but Gage did not need them because he still had big spaces between each tooth..
The cleanings all went well and the Dentist herself is really the warmest person who the kids took a liking to very quickly.
Alex had no cavities but unfortunately Austin had 4! They are really the begining of cavities.The dentist told me that the cavities he has are impossible to see in an exam , they are only seen by x-ray because they are in between the teeth.At this age they still have spaces but as they get older they tighten up and thats what happened to Austins back teeth.So we need to be sure to floss the back teeth.If there are visible spaces then there is no need to floss because a toothbrush can clean it.It was a good thing we had x-rays or else the cavitie would not have been detected until it penetrated the whole tooth ,so this is a much easier fix.
We saw on Alex's x-ray that she will more than likely loose that dark tooth before school so we should not have to worry about bonding it.It was really cool seeing their adult teeth above the baby teeth in the x-rays.
All and all a successful visit. I am so lucky to have found this dentist , and she is local! Seriously , they rock over there!
They all left with goody bags and balloons and no one ever cried!
Almost forgot ! Alex was 36lbs , Austin 51 lbs , and Gage was 30lbs...