After discussing it for the past few months, we finally pulled the trigger and made an appointment for Lily's first dental visit. Neither of us are fans of the dentist, guess it goes back to all those awful trips for the braces. Well, today was Lily's first trip to start the the dreaded "6 month" routine.
Lily is one that takes to things better when you prep her to some degree. It is always a delicate line between "preparation" and "talking it up too much" that it scares her. We thought we did a good job this time. All was good until we got back to the chair. Pretty much a factory of 6 chairs all lined up in the open, little clinical for our tests. Everyone was really nice and even let Lily sit on Mommy's lap for the examination. Well, whimper turned into all out scream when they pushed Lily backwards on the lap and proceeded to shove the metal crook and mirror into the mouth. No prep, no introductions, no "here are my tools" .... nothing. A 30 second examination, few stickers, a bag of dental goodies, a cheap carnival toy and we were on our way.
Needless to say, we think we may try another dentist for Round 2.
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