A Dental Proceedure for Allen Jr.

Well, today we had to do a dental procedure for Allen Jr. He had to be fasting, they gave him an oral sedation one hour before the surgery and then an IV sedation when we got there. Allen tries to get up and move around, he does not realize with these medications he needs to be careful.

Everything went really well. They were able to get started by 8:30 a.m. and we were leaving by 10:30/11:00 a.m. With Allen's disability, they cannot just go in and work on him, he does not allow that, so that is why he has to be sedated usually for even cavities to be filled. They were fixing him a permanent bridge for his two front teeth, cleaning his teeth and filling a cavity, but found two more small ones while in there. They fixed those too.

Allen did really good when we got home, he did want to get up and go, so Allen Sr. or I had to sit with him on the couch for several hours until the medications were out of his system.

We will be going back at the end of the month for his permanent bridge to be placed and they will be giving him the oral sedation again. Hopefully this will help.

Glad the Lord was with us yesterday and kept his hand on Allen.