There are a lot of loose teeth at Penn View Christian School!
For some reason, children love to
save their wiggly teeth for the school nurse.
Maybe it’s the thrill of leaving class with a wiggler and returning
moments later carrying one of those rattling, sought-after white plastic tooth
chests. (Little containers all much more appealing because we purchase the ones
fabulously shaped like a molar).
The students emerge from my office with fresh
gratified smiles; flashing their classmates dazzling grins as they show off
those gummy spaces now perfect for sucking spaghetti strands.
Some children have managed to save impossibly loose teeth
over long weekends, arriving first-thing Monday morning with those shiny pearls
literally hanging by a thread. When I say loose, I’m talking seriously
loose. As in, when some of these
children breathe, their tiny teeth nod and sway with each breath! 
Requests for removal of unwanted baby teeth are not, apparently, even limited to school hours.
Over the last fourteen years I have been compelled to pull teeth under
the dining tent at the Country Auction, in the dairy aisle at Landis
Supermarket, in the cheering section at a soccer game at Christopher Dock High
School, and in the foyer at Blooming Glen Mennonite Church. 
It’s a lot of time spent in small mouths for a woman who never considered a career in dentistry!
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