Deliciously Me

My lower right wisdom tooth had been giving me problems three times since last October.

The first time was so painful that I couldn’t sleep well for many nights. And B was so worried that he came all the way from cyber to pj to accompany me to see dentist in UM dentistry eventho he was quite busy with his study that time. *hugs B*

But then the receptionist for the student centre was very ‘rude’. When asked on the service – she just said, “baca ini” in a very harsh tone while pointing to the words pasted on glass panel. Apparently, students must call in the make appointment beforehand and could only walk-in at 8 or 9 in the morning (can’t recall) unless it’s emergency.

Of course I was angry – because I was losing sleep over this matter and I wasn’t happy with the way she conversed. So, I just walked out like that. B didn’t know what was happening as he was waiting outside; was shocked to see me walking out so angrily.

So, I sought treatment in one of the dental clinic in SS17 area. Without paying a single cents – because the dentist said my gum swelled and they couldn’t give me any medicine because I was allergic to the medicine they had. They told me to get the medicine from the nearby pharmacy and I did.

…. and just when I thought the nightmare was over, it came again in late Feb. I told B about the pain and B told me to get the tooth extracted. But I didn’t want to.

As I had returned to Penang that time, I went to the dental clinic that I patronised to seek advice. He told me the same thing as the dentist in SS17 told me, and advised me to return there after the swell disappears for extraction.

I never went back.

It was all okay – until 5 days ago, it happened again! Initially it was bearable… could bear with the pain until on Thursday it became so bad that I had to take in painkiller to stay focus on my work. And I was feeding on porridge that whole day.

Getting fedup with the pain, I decided that’s it. The tooth gotta go. I rang up my mum, asking her to make appointment with my dentist on Saturday morning to get rid of the problem.

On Friday, mum said that the nurse told her that my dentist planned to conduct this laser surgery on my gum before extracting my upper right wisdom tooth. I asked my mum why the upper instead of the lower – she said she didn’t know. Nevermind about that as I’ll know the answer next day. She told me that my appointment was scheduled to noon as they were fully booked in the morning.

Saturday came, and I was very anxious about the surgery. I dislike extracting any of my tooth due to bad childhood tooth extraction.

At around noon, I reluctantly drove myself there. There was 2 people waiting there when I reached and the nurse told me to take a seat first. Feeling nervous, I sms-ed B and played with my Itouchie. Then the nurse called my name. Bravely I walked into the room where dental chair was waiting for me.

My dentist walked in later and told me to sit comfortably on the dental chair before he took a look at my gum. He said my gum swell till very near my throat – and I told him that I had difficulty swallowing my saliva few days ago. He then took a picture of my gum, showing me how big my gum had swell and told me he was going to use the laser to cut my gum that partially covered my lower wisdom tooth. That gum swell due to the contact of the upper and the lower tooth when biting happened.

The laser machine was brought in from US. He said few dental clinics in KL but he’s the first in Northern. He assured me that the procedure wouldn’t cause any pain, bleeding or swelling-ness on the face after it ended. Compared to the normal procedure of cutting the gum up and sewing them back, he said the probability of having gum infection after surgery is totally minimised. I was very happy to hear that – especially the swelling part as I was afraid that I’ll look like ‘pig’s head’ for weeks!

The best thing is, after the laser surgery – I could eat like normal. No half-solid/liquid food. Yay!

Also, he told me that he wanted to take off my upper tooth because the upper one will grow longer and might cause pain in future. But I told him that I just want to laser the gum and hope that the upper tooth not causing any problem anymore. Haha!

After much explaining, he asked me to bite a cotton soaked with ‘i-don’t-know’what’ and started anesthetised the area 5 minutes later. He waited for the chemistry to work its magic. And the nurse walked in with a laser machine in her hands.

That’s when I started trembling.

With the right side of my mouth feeling numb, my gum was being ‘cut’ like a butcher cutting a cow. Lol!

Ok. I was exaggerating. But seriously, I smelt the ‘burning smell’ many many times while he did the laser thing. Gosh, I could even smell them now. @.@

Half an hour later – or I thought so, the whole deal ended. He took another picture of the gum to show the ‘hole’. And I could see my used-to-be-covered-tooth! Yay! I was very happy with the end result. He then applied ointment on the area before strictly warning me not to take anything in for an hour.

And I felt like a PIG’S HEAD after he finished lasering my gum! I told him that – but after he showed me mirror – I saw no bum! No pig’s head. But I felt as though it swell a lot! My dentist said it was due to the anesthetic. He assured me that the numb feeling be gone in 4-5 hours time.

I thanked the dentist, left the room, took my medicine, paid and left for home.

And I suffered the sore and the pig’s-head-feeling for 5 hours. ARGHHHHHH!!!!! I can’t talk properly. I can’t eat properly. I can’t swallow properly.

Luckily… 5 hours later, it was all okay – and I can eat like normal~~~

Now, I have to take good care of my ‘baby lower wisdom tooth’ so that no extraction will be made. Yay!