Teeth

I was just thinking about the cycle of Teeth we go through. I am looking at Kara with her baby teeth growing in and how cute it is to watch her smile grow. She will be a year old this month on the 23rd, so far she has 3 1/2 teeth on her smile. Two on the bottom grew in first and one front tooth, now the other front tooth is growing in, and is half way poking through her gum. When she smiles it is a small collection of teeth and bare gums for her grin.

She has a whole mouth full of teeth to still grow. Then when she is in first grade or so, she will start to loose those baby teeth, after all that hard work and minor pain she went through. It doesn't seem fair. She then has to grow more teeth after loosing the baby teeth and get stuck with a school photo or two with a broken smile. The smile will show her missing tooth/teeth, stuck captured in a photograph for ever. I think it is amazing how teeth come and go.

Then, around high school age, the wisdom teeth decide to grow in and smoosh over the other teeth taking up too much room.. and the dentist says you have to get the wisdom teeth removed...Well then why are they even there in the first place? Our mouth can only hold so many teeth and it grows more than it can hold. I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled out in one day. It was a piece of cake, and I don't remember any of it, in the end I had to eat jello and apple sauce for a while till my gums healed enough to chew again. I don't really know why our mouths havewisdom teeth in the first place? We go on living the first 20 years with out these teeth and only yank the teeth out when they do come in? So what is the point?!

Then once we reach the ripe old age of 70 or so we begin to loose all our teeth again and some people get the teeth replaced wtih dentures. They come full circle with teeth by that age.

Good luck little Kara with your cycle of teeth. It's an adventure.