My ex-husband is trying to pull all of my 6yo’s teeth.

Hey friends. I’m new to this so I’m looking for a little bit of insight.

I’ve been divorced from my ex-husband for almost 4 years now. We share a 6 year old daughter. Our custody schedule has been crazy but she’s been with me for the majority of the time. She spends summers with her dad, and if he visits town, (his family lives where I live, he’s in the military and lives 10 hours away) she spends time with him. I’ve noticed every time she’s with him, he’s trying to pull her baby teeth out.

She lost her first tooth a year ago, it fell out naturally. It was right before she was supposed to leave and stay with him for the summer. It was right before the end of her preschool year. The next week, she went to stay with her dad. I work in a dental lab, so I know the effects of pulling teeth out prematurely. I expressed my concerns to him about pulling teeth that aren’t ready to come out and he told me he understood. Fast forward 2 months later, I finally got to hug my daughter again. She was missing 4 teeth. She told me her dad had been working all summer to pull her teeth out. Since she’s been with me (9 months now), she has lost only one tooth, which was after Spring Break 2 months ago, that she spent with her father because he came in to visit for the week.

He’s a very power hungry person. He demands that our daughter address him as “Sir”. I don’t know what to say to him but digging in our daughter’s mouth isn’t it. I’m looking for some advice here. I think he’s trying to “one up” me in some way because I’m with her majority of the year. but it’s concerning me. He’s constantly joking about how hard he’s working on getting a tooth out, but if they’re not loose, why bother them? Even after he told me it “freaks him out” to see blood, especially when it’s our daughter, I don’t know what to do or say to him.