Luke goes to the dentist

At the beginning of April I took Luke to his first dental appointment. I was kind of worried about how he would do for the exam, he is fairly timid in new situations. I took him to a pediatric dentist that sets aside specific appointments for first-timers and goes real slow with them and tells you up front they'll only do as much as the child will let them and you can just come back in two week intervals until they can do the whole thing. We got there and had a little bit of a wait but Luke seemed to be ok. When they called us back he started getting nervous but he was interested in the new stuff at the same time. They have one big room with several patient chairs so it is a more open and friendly design than small individual rooms. Luke did really great letting the hygienist do the initial look and see and he brushed his teeth. When it came time to laying back in the chair he was not to happy but the hygienist suggested that I lay back and have him sit on top of me and that was ok with him. We just had to struggle a little bit to get him to cooperate but in the end he made it through the whole exam, and even did it again when the dentist himself looked too. No xrays this time, we go again in 6 months but Luke did really well for his first dental appointment!