Metalmouth Makaio

"Look at my metal teeth!"

Poor Makaio had to travel to Oahu on Tuesday. He had to leave Kona at 9:15am and take a taxi to the dentist's office. Where we again had to wait and wait and wait till the dentist told us that the cavity was too deep to repair and it would need to be removed. He extracted the tooth and put metal caps on the two top and bottom teeth that also showed beginning signs of decay and placed a "spacer" in the gap so that the new adult tooth could grow up straight.

Poor guy just 5 years old but he has been thoroughly inspired to brush very well these days- and give his brothers lots of encouragment to follow suit- so that is one good result.

We didn't home till 6pm at night.

That's ALOT of traveling for one hour long dental procedure.