The youngest had some baby teeth that just didn’t want to come out and the adult teeth were coming in under them.  We found this out when we took him in to get his braces and they said they couldn’t do it until his baby teeth were out, so we scheduled an appointment at Kingery & Kingery to have those stubborn baby teeth forcibly evicted from his mouth.  You can see the result to the left (hope you didn’t just eat).

The weird part was seeing the adult teeth in the holes left after the baby teeth were removed, and also seeing how long the roots on the baby teeth were.  I shudder to think what would have happened if we hadn’t had the teeth removed.

Sadly for Justin he’s old enough that the idea that he would be remunerated by some tooth fairy for his ordeal never entered his head, nor the heads of the tooth fairies themselves.  The way this tooth fairy looks at it those funds have been banked for the orthodontist, who I believe has been able to finance a boat from the braces my three kids have endured (are enduring).