The dental caravan

After we returned from spring break, this trailer was parked in front of the kids' school. It's a dentist office on wheels - think Book Mobile with dentist. Each of the kids came home with notices that they would be having their teeth cleaned during school. Apparently it is done once a year and is paid for with taxes.

The funny thing was that one of my English speaking friends in the village made a point to call me and let me know that I should not let the caravan dentist do anything more than a cleaning on the kids' teeth. Last year, her son came home from his cleaning with a cavity. Not having a dentist here in Switzerland, she signed the consent form allowing the caravan dentist to fill the cavity. It did not end well. Her son came home with a broken tooth and they quickly had to find a competent dentist to fix it. It was very traumatic for her 6 year old, especially since he was given nothing to numb his mouth.

Fortunately our kids returned home with a clean bill of health (I wasn't too surprised since it hasn't even been 6 months since their last checkup). Alex did say that the dentist was really rough and even banged his front tooth to see if it was loose. OUCH!