I hate the dentist. My hatred for them started in Primary one, when I was just an innocent and harmless kid. I remembered that I was called to the school dental clinic where an unfriendly female dentist sat waiting. She found 2 badly decayed molar and I had them extracted on 2 different occasions with injections. Since then, I never visit the dentist unless absolutely necessary. My 1st visit after leaving secondary school took 10 years. Who cares about the 6 monthly visit? So long as there is no pain, good!
My memory of dentists are fierce looking females, forever asking me to "open your mouth", "open bigger", "bigger". I was a kid then, how big do you expect my mouth to be? Duh.. But I have to admit that dentists now are much friendlier. The last few visits had been fine.
My 4 wisdom tooth were intact. The 2 bottom ones are growing in the wrong direction and whenever I visit the dentists, they will advise for the removal of all the 4 wisdom tooth. I had been delaying it. I must observe my "no pain" policy mah.
A year ago, during a holiday trip to Taiwan with Daddy Lim, I was happily eating the "you chong bin" when I felt sharp edges rubbing against my inner cheek. It took me a while to accept the fact that part of the upper left wisdom tooth has chipped. The chipped portion was probably swallowed together with the you chong bin. ;p Other than the sharp edges, it doesnt cause much discomfort. I had lived with it for a year!!
During my last visit to the dentist due to bleeding gum (preggy symptoms), the dentist did inform that the same chipped wisdom tooth was decayed. As I was preggy then, it was not advisable to remove it and he hoped that the pain would not come. True enuff, there was no pain until a week ago. It hurts really badly. I could not eat using the left side. Although I was miserable, it was a good excuse to eat less of the confinement food. ;p Finally, I went to the dentist yday when I could no longer bear with the constant misery.
It wasnt my usual dentist. This dentist was super stern. He said that the pain was caused by the decayed wisdom tooth. I have 2 choices - to extract it or to bear with the pain. -.o" Extraction takes merely a few minutes but there is always a risk that the tooth might break. In that case, a surgery is required and it will take up to 30 minutes. He refused to tell me the % of possibility of breakage, just insisting that I have to take breakage into consideration should I decide on extraction. I have always wanted to do a GA and have all 4 wisdom tooth removed at the same time. I tot that should spare me some agony, just sleep, wake up and voila! However, I need to stop breastfeeding in order to do a GA. Should I decide to breastfeed for 6 months, I would have to tahan the pain for 6 months! After doing my maths, I obediently sit on the dentist chair. It wasnt as bad as I expected. There was no pain with the injection. I only felt tugging. The nurse has to hold back my head.
After the extraction, the dentist showed me the tooth and said that a little part of the root broke inside the gum. -.o" However, no point trying to dig it out as digging might drive it further in. He ended by saying that it shouldnt cause much problem.. Errr.. how comforting..
The extracted tooth looks pretty rotten. I am glad that it is over.. I have 3 more to go.. Haiz..
Mummy Lim
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