Friday, September 18, 2009

Tooth Fairy comes early...

A few months ago Madison hit her tooth on her friends head while jumping on the bed. She bent it back and it ended up going a bit gray. Then just a few nights ago she was playing and fell and her face hit the coffee table and bent her same front tooth all the way back so it looked as though she didn't have a tooth. Brian immediately pulled it forward as Madison yelled, "no daddy please don't." We called three dentist's that night and got all of their opinions on the matter. We were especially interested in what the pediatric specialist dentist had to say. He told us that if the blood supply was good to that tooth she could keep it, but to bring her in Thursday. This happened Monday night after Family Home Evening...we obviously didn't pray for her to have a safe trip home:-) We were debating whether to Bring Madison in since we don't have dental insurance, but Madison hit her head on Abby's head that day which compelled us to take her in. We dropped in as Dr. M told us to and had him check out her tooth. The office was amazing with arcade games for free, a play house, movie playing at all times, and fish. It was a child's dream office. We waited to be seen and once it came to our turn we went back. (Background, Dr. M is my parent's home teacher and in their ward in Provo) He took one look at Madison's tooth and pronounced it not saveable and that it has to come out. It had gotten infected and never really healed from the first hit and Madison was lucky she hit it again so that we could take care of it before it damaged her permanent tooth. He then went on to say that she has an overbite due to her binky sucking and he would have to correct that with a retainer before he could fit her for another retainer that will have a new tooth hooked to it. I looked at him and simply stated that we didn't have dental insurance to which he replied, "I'll just treat it as a service. Besides, I am your parent's home teacher." I don't know anywhere in any church handbook where it says to give free service to family who doesn't even live at home anymore. I almost started crying right there in gratitude to Dr. M for helping us out this way. It's so important to us for Madison to keep her permanent tooth and to be able to have a tooth until her permanent tooth comes in. It won't be coming in for 2-3 years. I know that Heavenly Father truly looks out for his children and supports them when in need. Just a small miracle I thought I would share:-)

2 comments:

kimi + joe said...

That's wonderful and I'm so glad everything worked out! What a remarkable and kind doctor.

shessjens said...

Oh my goodness! Poor Madison has all the luck! I still feel bad about her tooth, I'm SO glad to hear though that this great doctor helped you guys out so much! It sounds like it was a really good thing that you went in to see him! Your summer has been full of miracles :)