Extraction

Extract
1 a: to draw forth (as by research) b: to pull or take out forcibly c: to obtain by much effort from someone unwilling

This is the word the nurse at the oral surgeons office sneered at me when I said that Nolan was there to get two teeth pulled. Let's think this through... two teeth are coming out and the lady thinks that it less scary to say extraction than pulled?

They lead Nolan into a room and the first thing he sees is an IV set up in the corner of the room. His looks like a deer in headlights and it takes me a few minutes to reassure him that he will not be getting the IV. The Dr. came in and after numbing up his mouth, literally took what looked like a miniature set of salad tongs and yanked the two teeth out.

Nolan did so good through the whole things he got to eat ice cream for lunch rent two movies and an xbox game! So starts our journey through the braces years!

Here is a picture of the teeth "extracted" from Nolan. He laughingly asked me how much the tooth fairy paid for teeth that had been pulled out; I reply that she just paid $159 to the Dr.