Bight Smiles, Bright Futures at Absolute Dental

This years Colgate Oral Health Month is call "Bright Smiles, Bright Future" and is an added opportunity to engage with children and their families about the importance of oral health and how it contributes to overall health, as part of their ongoing delivery of care.

With this in mind, we are launching a competition for our younger patients to write a story or draw us a picture that has a dental theme - what this means, is up to your imagination!!

Closing date for entries will be Sept 30th and these can be dropped in to the practice, posted to us or added to our timeline on Facebook.

The tale of the tooth.

One very fine morning a little girl named Alice woke up to the singing of the birds and the swaying of the trees. However as she crawled out of her bed she heard her mother Felicity and brother George fighting about George playing tennis inside. Alice was so busy trying to get a peaceful breakfast she didn’t see her brother throwing his hard ball directly at her face, as Alice turned around the ball hit her front tooth and her tooth instantly fell on the table “Mum” Alice screamed even though her mum was right next to her “I know Alice your tooth has come out” Felicity her mother said “I’m going to put it under my pillow” Alice declared feeling upset her mother had not taken too much interest in the incident.

Throughout the whole day Alice was talking about her tooth right up until bed time, she went to get her night clothes on and instantly ran to brush her teeth then checked her tooth was still lying under her pillow and it once she had confirmed it was safely there she fell asleep.

At midnight the tooth fairy Laila appeared into Alice’s room. Laila took the tooth then remembered she had left all the tooth fund money at the fairy pond. As she flew back over the river the fetch the fund the tooth fell out of her bag and landed at the top of the river. Just as the tooth splashed into the river there was an additional  wave from an Otter family swimming past that pushed the tooth downstream to another young girls house her name was Lucy. Lucy picked up the tooth and placed it under her pillow which tricked Laila the following night as she gave Lucy the money instead. Lucy woke up in the middle of the night  as she wanted to see if the money had replaced the tooth. She was delighted to find it had and so excited she had tricked the tooth fairy she got up and  ran outside and span round and round and got so dizzy that she fell and the money went straight into the river.

Laila luckily had been flying past and by this time she realised what had happened and that she had been tricked. With help from her friends she fished the money out from the river and managed to place it back under Alice’s pillow all ready for the following morning.

 

By Scarlett age 9