Thursday, September 30, 2004
grinding teeth or wisdom tooth? and others....
Went to do something i had not done for a couple for years-- visit dentist.
Morning wake up, found my whole left side numb, can't imagine i was sleeping facing down on my left side for the 5.5 hrs. Left upper an lower jaw felt a bit numb in the morning, perhaps that I grind my teeh due to the awkaward position.
After. at office, lots of "rocky events" such as they upgraed my MAc G3 to an old emac, with the enw OS 10 ( or panther) install. but turn out fount size so small and the position of the computer too low for my eyes' easy viewing.
From teh afternoon, my left jaw and teeth started to feel pain, dun feel like talking. Not that type of tooth decay pain, but the type were the pain shot up to yr cheekbone.
Boh pian lah, decided to visit the dentist.
Din't know the entist at Bishan are so popular, had to wait til 8pm then manage to slot in my appointment.....
Dentist knocked on my teeth, yet i didn't feel pain. to my horror, he found out taht my left upper wisdom tooth was badly decay. Though I feel no pian at all. He said the wisdom tooth grows on a spot where it's hard to maintain, and the correct way for the toothbrush to reach it was to brush the inner teeth with my mouth close, not wide open' so that the tooth brush can reach inside. Darn, I had been brushing with my mouth wide open all these years.
took an x-ray, but could find any problem, so he gave 3 assumptions
1) the musclepain from the grinding
2) the sensitive teeth and gums
3) the decay wisdom tooth
But hor, the area where i was feeling pain was not the area where the upper left wisdom tooth located. But still i had to choose an auspicious date for the extraction.
Anyway, he cleaned and polished my teeth, arhhh, i haven't been near those machines ever since i finish my course of braces. Dentish quite "farnie" one, he told me to raise my hand up if I ever feel pain. I really almost can't tahan when he start using the machine to scrape my front teeth, was raising my hand to signal I felt pain, and though he would stop for a while. Yet he was apologising, kept saying "sorry " . Alamak! But then hor, come to think of it, at least this male dentist more gentle than the female dentists I encountered. Could still remember the Primary School dentist,she was so fierce that nobody wants to visit her clinic .
After washing my mouth full of bloodied saliva, he was like commenting me : "Yr threshold of pain quite high huh." Haha, he expect me to cry & whine meh? That type of pain I still can bear, though shed 2 tears at some point.
Spent $75 on today's x-ray, dental consultation, polishing and cleaning. Need to see him again next week to do fillings and then another date for extraction. Which will cost me more than $100.
Aiyoh, how to save $ with expenses like that.
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WL sent me his blog's url. initially thought that was his new blog, then realised that was the same old blog he had been using. quite surpised that he's sharing. And need to thank him for the wishes he had wrote on his latest blog.
Had spent time looking at this past issues. hai.. he seems to have some wrong ideas. While he was worrying that he may be giving me some wrong ideas, I at that time was also afraid that he might get the wrong idea. Think need to clarify with him later.
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