Alyson's Extra Tooth

Maybe you will recall that Alyson has a loose tooth due to an unfortunate accident with Kourtney's head. Well, she has managed to keep it in since the incident occured on Valentine's Day, and because we didn't want some kind of infection brewing underneath it at the gum level, we decided to take her into the dentist. After he examined her tooth with the naked eye, he decided that they had better take an x-ray of it because it looked like another tooth may actually be the primary cause of the loose one. Sure enough the x-ray revealed a tooth pushing its way through Alyson's gums....THE CATCH....it's an extra tooth!

The dentist said extra teeth are very rare especially ones that are already breaking the surface in a 4-5 year old. To make a long story short, he wants to take it out before it starts to crowd Alyson's two adult teeth that he thinks will be coming in in the next year or so. That means that she will probably loose this tooth between now and her scheduled in house surgery on April 1st, and then have two more to add to her collection because more than likely the dentist will exise the other top front tooth to get at the extra one pushing its way through the front top two. So when we went to the Library this morning, guess what kinds of books she wanted to borrow....Ones about Tooth Fairies!