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Today has been really hectic.
After an important work meeting I had to leave after lunch to take Our Boy to the dentist to have braces installed. He was very relaxed about it - think I suffered more watching...
He only got the uppers installed this time and the bottom will follow in 8 weeks time. In 20 months he will be done!
To be honest, I am not sure he really needs them. But the dentist was adamant that it was necessary and as the National Health Service (NHS) will pay for them we have accepted.
Ok, perhaps a couple of the teeth are not 100% perfectly straight (but he has NEVER had a cavity!), but do we all have to have perfectly aligned teeth? Doesn't some minor teeth irregularities (and they are truly minor) make people a bit more individual and 'interesting'? Do we all have to have the same PERFECT smile? Has this quest for perfection gone a bit too far? I just ask...
Note on costs - if you want the 'invisible' type on the inside of the teeth it will set you back £10 000... Nope - this type is not covered by NHS so he has the regular 'train tracks'...
Several of my friends had braces, but I never had. However, I am sure I would have had if I was a child of today. Instead, I was given a small wooden spatula and instructed to sit and push one crooked tooth forward 10 mins every evening. I never heard of anybody else getting this treatment... and I am not sure it made any difference.
On a more worrying note was that Our Cat seemed in obvious pain when we stroked him over the back and he seemed generally low. I took him to the vet this evening and the verdict is that he must have been in a fight, has got an abscess or infection in his muscle tissue on his back, has high fever and is generally feeling rotten.
So, hopefully the injection and 5 days with tablets will make him a happy pussy cat again.
It obviously doesn't help that that he has been neutered
- territorial fighting cats is a sure sign that spring is here!
Skjønner godt at du stiller spørsmålet om alle trenger feilfrie tenner, og hvem bestemmer hva som er feilfritt? Det blir jo som oftest at vi tror på dem som er proffe på området og vi følger deres råd. I alle fall, lykke til med reguleringen, det vil som oftest gå godt.
ReplyDeleteHei Mette. Vi har nettop vært igjennom første runde med vår sønn som kun er 11 år. Vi fikk beskjed fra tannlegen at han hadde så stort overbitt at det var fare for å skade tenne viss han skulle ramle. Det er jo sant, fordi han skadet dem i gymtimen en gang hvor han smalt i vegge og slo av et lite stykke av fortanna. Så etter 12 uker klarte de å rette fortenne ganske så godt opp, og nå må vi vente å se hvordan tannbittet vil se ut når han får resten av skoletennene. Nei alle behøver ikke tannregulering. Jeg selv har to fortenner som er skikkelig skjeive, men har aldri overveid tannregulering. Mitt skjeve smil er liksom meg:)) Her i Norge må vi jo betale i dyre dommer for regulering, så da er dere heldige i England. Lykke til, blir nok kjempe fint. Og jeg er sikker på at dere blir glad for det i siste ende:)
ReplyDeleteKlem Anne Karin
Jeg synes for eksempel glippe mellom fortennene er utrolig sjarmerende. Hadde selv stort overbitt og fikk gom og bøyle i 11-årsalderen. Formålet er jo ikke alltid en perfekt estetisk tanngard, men en sunn tannstilling slik at man ikke gnisser tenner eller biter feil og overanstrenger kjevemuskulaturen.
ReplyDeleteHåper det går bra med søte pusen.
Jeg må bare legge til her
ReplyDelete(etter å ha svart lenger oppe først)
at mine jenter MÅ ha tannregulering.
Det ser ut som om tennene er kastet inn i munnen på dem!
Og det er dyrt! Nesten tyve tusen av egen lomme pr stk!!
Håper det går bra med kattepusen...