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Molars, massage and mirrors to the soul

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January....what a month...every long dark broke day of it ! To add insult to injury it also brought the boys opticians appointments,the eldest's dental appointment, singing lesson payments and a new set of tyres....squeak ! The eldest is in his in last year in primary school so with delight the optician advised me that his next appointment would need to be a private one with him. That I could cope with until I took same child to his last public dental appointment. A very nice dentist advised me that he still had about 10 of his baby teeth and that he should have lost a few more by now . I advised him that I still possessed two baby teeth with no adult teeth behind them." Ahhh Hypodontia" he exclaimed and promptly referred the eldest for an x ray to establish whether or not the adult teeth were actually in his head. "It's no issue if he's only missing one or two, but any more than that and you're looking at bone grafts, surgery, implants....anything up to