I posted on FB earlier today about Z successfully removing his fake fillings. So here's the dish on that.
Saturday afternoon I was sitting at the table doing something very important I'm sure and Z was trying to play with me. I looked over and noticed through his big smile something dark on his two of his lower molars. I pulled him over and had him open his mouth. My first thought was when did he have dental work done that I didn't know about? Which of course is never! He's only two. I'm telling you though that they looked like fillings! I started flipping through all of the other possibilities in my head. Candy? Crayon? Leftover food? What toy in their room matches what I'm seeing?
It looked like metal. What could he have put in his mouth that is metal?
I came up with nothing so I decided to break out the tooth picks and start picking. And picking. And picking to no avail. By this time I had shown J and we were both picking at them whenever we could get Z to open his mouth wide enough.
I was really confused and feeling like a horrible mom. Why aren't they coming out? Could they be monster cavities? I brushed his teeth right? How long have they been there? How could I have not seen them when brushing his teeth? Then remembered that I'm never able to see his teeth. I'm lucky just to get the brush in and move it around most days. I had no idea when, where, or what had happened. Great.
Cue the curious 4 year old.
"What are you doing?"
"Trying to get something out of Z's mouth."
"What is it?"
"I don't know. Did you see him put something in his mouth?"
"He put the balls in his mouth."
"Balls? What balls?"
IV leaves the room for a minute and comes back with one of the said "balls" in his hand.
"These balls."
Flashback to Monday-ish:
I can't even really remember when it was originally broken but sometime at the beginning of last week (maybe Monday?) IV brought out one of the maracas he and Z had been playing with and informed me that it didn't work anymore and that the "balls" fell out. He then held up what was left of the maraca that he had been beating the bed frame with revealing a huge gaping hole in the side. I followed him into his room to the scene of the crime and it looked like there had been an explosion of little "balls" in their room. When I say little think, pin head size or smaller. I then proceeded to get out the vacuum and suck up all of the "balls" I could find. I'll try to get a picture of them on here later.
Flash forward to Saturday:
Ahhh, so they were the "balls" from the maracas.
So....apparently I missed a few and apparently they were metal and not plastic like I thought. Apparently Z thought they looked tasty to a two year old and apparently they are soft enough to chew and mold into what looks like fake fillings that DO NOT come off.
At this point I called the dentist, Dr., and poison control to decide a plan of attack. Dentist says to try really sticky candy or gum to get it out and to call the Dr. (We bought a bunch of laffy taffy, gum, Starbursts, and Mambos.)
Dr. said to call poison control to see if the metal was poisonous.
Poison control said it should be ok if there were no signs of lead poisoning by now and to call the dentist.
No luck with the candy and gum.
So back to the dentist. Made an appointment. That appointment was this morning and they were able to pick it out with that horrible pick tool that they use.
Yay!!!! The fake metal fillings are gone!!! Here's to hoping it wasn't lead. I have some of the "balls" but no way to see what kind of metal they are.
The Dr. and poison control said that any that were ingested should pass through his system if they haven't already, but if we see any signs of lead poisoning to give them a call.
So, there ya go. That was our weekend fun.
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