Obviously before the therapy we couldn't imagine bringing him near one- this coming from the fact that he was terrified of new situations, sensitive to be touched (he used to scream endlessly while getting his hair cut) and also sensitive to certain loud noises (just last weekend he spent half of of the time watching Night at the museum 2 covering his ears). Actually brushing his teeth was quite a challenge too as he would never open his mouth wide enough so we always ended up blindly brushing his teeth as we couldn't exactly see his teeth with his mouth closed shut over the toothbrush stick!
For this first time we thought we'd just make him sit on the chair to get a feel of it and to only get his teeth checked. Which lo and behold we are proud to inform that he was completely fine with! Well we did give out loads of information beforehand to prepare him of course.
Look at him happily sitting on the dentist chair ready for his check up!
Do I look cool in these sunglasses mama?
Waiting for the chair to recline back which at first he still got quite nervous about!
Open wide Raiyan! We were surprised to find out that he got 3 permanent molars already! The dentist said that it's quite early since he's not even 6 yet.
Seeing how he seemed fine with just getting his teeth checked out, the dentist thought that he could try going one step further to scale and polish his teeth! Though there was a bit of hesitation at first, but alhamdulillah soon after he was sitting quietly with his teeth scaled away! Look closely! His teeth is actually being scaled- yikers! He's braver than me!
He really didn't like the taste of the polish so of all things that he chose to refuse just now was to rinse his mouth with the mouthwash cause he was scared it would taste the same as the tooth polish. So we gave him water instead but the poor thing has no idea how to spit the water back out! He just did the spitting 'action' with nothing coming out as he's swallowed the water already! It was sad (that he still doesn't know how to spit) and funny at the same time!
So I guess some of you may be amazed at how brave Raiyan was. Altogether I'd have to say that he really did surpass my expectations with how brave he was. But at this juncture I have to confess to there being one catch- the dentist was none other than pweshes babah himself! Hehe! I'm sure that factor helped a lot! :-)
But overall Congratulations Raiyan!
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7 comments:
Yes, I'm sure that helped, but still! That's a lot to be proud of! He's doing so well!
Great story. A lot of my younger clients struggle on their first visit. He was brave!
That was a great experience for him , my son did also last time ... all the best to him and my son ...
Hey Leng! Sorry I havent been around, but I am so happy to know Raiyan's latest development. Going to the dentist is a MAJOR milestone. And he handled it so well.. Is the dentist someone he is familiar with? I brought Aqil to the dentist the 1st time when he was 4 but it didnt end well cos he got freaked out by the sounds he heard from the scaling machine (sp??). But seeing that Raiyan made it thru, I think it's time for me to take my boys back to the dentist this school hols.. lets see how it goes nanti..
Well done, Raiyan!
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Hahaha.. thought I recognise that dentist!
Hi Ms Pynk! Haha thought you'd figure out the dentist eventually! hey AKU masih lagi takut of the scaling machine (I call it that too) sound ok!! so my kid is braver than me banar!! Thanks for ur comment love!
Great story about the first visit to the dentist. You did the right thing in preparing your child for the dental appointment by providing information of what to expect. Kids can sometimes get scared if they do not know what is going on.
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