teeth and noses

As I have watched each one of Maddy's permanent teeth grow in I have actually been able to feel my wallet get lighter, and lighter, and lighter. I took her in about 6 months ago to get a consultation with an orthodontist as her teeth just kept growing in crazier and crazier. He told us the "good" news that because of everything that is going on in her mouth she needs double treatment! So today, after waiting for a couple of teeth to grow in, we finally got the first portion of a three step process to basically fit her with internal head gear. Thankfully these days they don't make the kids wear that awful head gear anymore. Now they just stick 2 big metal bars inside your mouth. Doesn't that sound much better?

However, because of her nasty thumb sucking habit (PLEASE PULL YOUR BABIES THUMB OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS RIGHT NOW!!!!) she has a SEVERE over bite that we have to get corrected now. So she will have these 2 metal bars connecting her upper teeth and her lower teeth forcing her mouth to bite properly, and thus encouraging her bottom jaw bone to grow into where it should be.

The first step was the spacers. They put basically four thick rubber bands in between all four of her back teeth. In about a week or two she will get caps put on the back molars and then about a week after that she will get her bars glued in. She gets to wear that for about a year. Then we will wait for her other teeth to grown in and about a year later she will get her braces on. So instead of just paying for braces we now get to pay for double treatment.

It is totally worth it to us to give Maddy a beautiful mouth and smile but also because she really can't even bite or chew food properly because her over bite is so bad. But I really wish that a certain brother-in-law had actually became a dentist/ortho......you know who you are......physical therapy was already taken in my family......I needed a teeth doctor!;)

Anyway, Maddy is a little sore and not particularly a happy camper right now and she probably won't be for the rest of the month, but I just have to keep telling her and my bank account that it is going to be worth it in the end.

Now on to noses..... mine in particular! Well after finishing yet a second round of steroids in 2 and half months and starting allergy shots to help combat my polyp problem, I visited the doctor yesterday to see what was going on. He finally concluded that it looks like I am going under the knife. We have to do a CT scan finally to see what exactly is going on with my sinuses because the steroid isn't having the effect that he wants, but it looks like I am going to have to get them removed. Has anyone else ever dealt with this? I am a little nervous about it.