On Monday, Logan had his third orthodontic appointment where they placed the expander in the upper palate.  This appointment was an hour long and both Stuart and I were nervous about how Logan would tolerate it.  Stuart prepared Logan’s tablet with some shows in hope to entertain him during the procedure.  This was my turn to accompany Logan, so we said bye to Stuart and Connor once I arrived to the office.  Once Logan sat down at the dental chair, I hooked up the video for him to watch.  I did not want to be in the way, so I sat on the side bench to observe from a distance.  Logan was reluctant to let the staff do the cleaning and later for the orthodontic to fit the apparatus in his mouth, but he was following the instruction.  I occasionally saw Logan’s hand in the air or try to stop them, and I heard Logan making some uncomfortable noise, but at least he was letting them work on him.  Whenever he got up to go rinse his mouth, he looked sad and exhausted, but whenever possible, he would watch his tablet during breaks.  When the orthodontist returned to glue on the apparatus, I worried that Logan would refuse and they had to redo the glue, so I decided to go hold Logan’s hand.  He allowed them to put in the expander, and we were close to be done.  After the staff cleaned off Logan’s teeth, next it was my turn.  I had to learn about all the do’s and don’ts, how to clean his teeth with expander, and finally how to expand the device each night.  Logan wanted to go home, but fortunately the tablet was able to entertain him while I listened to the staff.  At the end I also made one turn on Logan’s expander before we could finally leave to go home.

    One thing I was not previously informed was that they placed a plastic extension to one of his bottom teeth to help avoid cross bite with the upper palate.  The tooth is very obvious and it took Logan awhile to get used to it and close his bite properly, but it will only be there for a couple of weeks.  The rest of the afternoon, we had to have Logan learn to talk and eat again.  We are very proud of how he tolerated the whole procedure and he has been dealing with the device in his mouth without too much complaints.