DD - two teeth coming out. How might she feel?

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DD has to have two baby teeth taken out on Monday. She is 8, they are both wobbly and are being extracted because the adult teeth haven't pushed them out naturally.

It's a local anaesthetic and the dentist seems confident she will be able to go back to school. DD is desperate to go back as it is the start of a new lesson that afternoon - cooking, her favourite hobby!

So, how realistic is it that she will be up to it? She is a pretty sturdy girl in that she doesn't play up about being sore or ill unless something is really wrong and rarely makes a fuss, just wants to get on with things. I obviously would be delighted if she is well enough to go back for this, but equally, if she is likely to be quite sore, then I don't want her to overdo things.

Appreciate any experience on this.

I had two canine teeth extracted (years ago) when I was this age. I remember my mouth was numb and swollen afterwards until the anaesthetic wore off. There was a bit of bleeding for what seemed like ages but was probably only half an hour. I didn't go back to school straight after but was a bit of a wimp!
Just see how she feels after maybe?

DS had two out in October. He's 13, and went back to school after a couple of hours, once he'd got used to the feel of his mouth.

Baby teeth, especially when already wobbly, don't take any force to get out. It took longer for the dentist to numb DS' mouth than it did to get the teeth out.

Thanks. The teeth are wobbly already, just not shifting so the dentist did say it is a very noninvasive procedure - not like wisdom teeth, knee on the chest job at all! Also the teeth are close together, so only a small part of the mouth should be numb, hopefully.

I will definitely see how she is, not going to just drop and run. Even if I have to wait in the car park, she is just so desperate not to miss this cooking session. In some ways, as it might be the ideal distraction, assuming she is not in too much discomfort.

Soft food for dinner that night methinks!

My daughter had a referral from the orthodontist about the same time we had a general check up at the dentist (teeth weren't wobbly by the way). It was the last appointment of the day, so dentist said he would take teeth out then (which we hadn't expected). We didn't get home until about 6.30pm and as we hadn't expected this had nothing in soft for tea, but she managed to eat chicken nuggets and her usual veggies as usual. She didn't need any Nurofen.

My daughter was fine, but I'd say to use your judgement on the day.

Thanks everyone. I am delighted to say that, despite a couple of tears about the injection, the teeth simply popped out and she had a numb mouth for a couple of hours. This felt a bit strange but there was no pain.

She then went back to school, did her lessons, did her cooking class and came home and stuffed down her dinner. Hasn't mentioned it again since. So, my shared experience is that the injection is the worst bit!