My twelve-year-old daughter complained of severe pain in her jaw, and I decided to take her to the dentist; but the moment the doctor examined her, he suddenly said, “Stay calm, I am calling the police immediately” 😲😱
My daughter complained of intense pain in her jaw almost every day. She was only twelve, but she had already stopped eating normally, woke up at night from the pain, and cried quietly into her pillow so no one would hear.
I saw how carefully she chewed, how afraid she was to open her mouth even a little, how she held her cheek when she thought I wasn’t looking. My husband brushed it off. Irritated, he said it was “just her age,” that they were only baby teeth, that all children go through this and that it would pass with time. But inside me, a growing sense of anxiety would not let me rest.
