If you go to enough doctors one of them will eventually say that you need to have surgery. In the last 10 days Grace has had 5 doctors appointments. This morning Dallas took her to the pediatric dentist at UNC hospital. They will be calling us within 2 weeks to set up surgery for Grace. She has 4 or 5 rotten teeth. They will try and fix them but if they can't they will be pulled out, xrays will be taken, and sealants put on her remaining teeth. This is very common with cleft lip/palate kids and kids adopted from China. Our guide, also, had lots of rotten teeth. Unfortunately, it may be a continous process. Not pulling rotten teeth but pulling teeth that come in where they don't belong. The dentists said cleft mouths are set up the way ours are and the teeth don't know where to come in. Greace will be out for about two hours while they perform these tasks. The ENT also said if Grace had surgery to give her a call because she wants to clean out the gobs of wax in her ears. This will only take about 15 minutes so it won't add much time to the process.
Dallas took Grace this morning because he was hoping to see Rich(see below post) before he went in to surgery. Fortunately, he was able to talk to him a few minutes. We should hear something later this afternoon.
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