Keeping My Teeth Strong

I went with my Mama to the dentist last week. A dentist is a doctor for teeth. It started out with us waiting in a big room where they had books, blocks, and other things for me to play with. I thought that was pretty neat. Then the nice lady came and asked if I wanted to come back to have my teeth counted. I said yes and went back into a little room that had a little chair just my size. My Mom's appointment was first so I sat like a good boy and watched her get X-rays of her teeth. Then we looked at the picture of the X-ray and it looked really weird. The lady dentist person scraped and scrubbed at Mama's teeth while I watched and climbed around on the bottom of her chair. We counted how many teeth Mama had on the top and the bottom of her mouth. There were 14 on top and 14 on bottom. It was lucky because once I get past 14 when counting I get a little mixed up.

Finally it was my turn to sit in the cool chair. I sat right down and put on a special paper bib and some neat green sunglasses and let the lady move me up and down in the chair.

I thought that wasn't so bad so I decided I'd be a good boy and open my mouth like she asked so she could count my teeth.

Would you believe that I have 20 teeth! I was astonished. The lady said that I was being such a good boy that she would go ahead and clean my teeth up real nice until they were shining.

I sat still and opened and closed my mouth when she told me to. I also held onto "Mr. Thirsty."

He was a little spit sucking vacuum tube that I held in my mouth. Next she asked me what type of toothpaste I would like: raspberry, bubblegum, or mint. I told her that I already have Spiderman toothpaste at home. She was impressed and curious and inquired whether Spiderman toothpaste tasted like bubble gum. I told her (obviously) "No" but that it tastes like "very spicy sauce and like spiderwebs!" She didn't seem to have any idea what a spiderweb would taste like. Since Spiderman flavor wasn't a choice I picked raspberry bubblegum and it was pretty good. Then we looked in the mirror at what pretty teeth I have and told Dr. Mike to come have a look. He said my teeth were nice and then as a reward for being such a good boy he took me to get a new monster truck toy. The lady put some new toothpaste and a super cool silver Cars toothbrush into a little pouch for me to take home. Lucky for me because I was going that very night to stay at my Papa's house and now I could bring my new toothbrush with! I told Mom that I couldn't wait to show my friends "my very very shiny teeth and cool race car toothbrush." Cheese!