Teeth 2 – Franzi

Remember the story about the little baby from the Missionaries of Charity with the dental abscess? Well, here’s an amazing follow up. No, this is not the story of the miracle cure of that particular child. We haven’t been back since our first, visit, so we don’t know what happened to her. But about a week later, a little boy from the neighborhood came in to the school with a swollen mouth, fever, and terrible pain. Corey, the future dentist, took a look at him and confirmed that he too had one totally rotten tooth, and a terrible infection. Luckily, this one wasn’t as far along as the little girl at the orphanage, so Corey was able to scrape out the decayed inside of this kid’s tooth. He gave him some Tylenol, and his parents said they’d watch it for a few days and if the swelling didn’t go down they’d try top take him to the clinic to get the abscess drained.

Then a few days later when we were serving all the little kids lunch, this one little boy kept following Corey around smiling at him. He didn’t even recognize the little boy, who’s name is Franzi, because his face had been so swollen when they first met. Four days after Corey’s little procedure, the swelling was gone, his pain was gone, and his fever was gone. He just looked like a totally gorgeous, happy ten year old.