Tooth Extraction

After searching through several websites and making numerous calls with the assistance of my colleagues and friends...

Finally, I went to the dentist at Alexandra Hospital on Monday, 16 Jun 08. It can be quite ridiculous how some of the clinics function. Even after telling them that I'm in a traumatic pain and needed urgently to see a dentist, the reception goes... "there's nothing I can do, the earliest appointment is next week for consultation only, no treatment on the day itself." When asked when can I actually book an appt for treatment: "I don't know, our dept only handles consultation appts." WHAT THE????? I was in pain!!! Waiting till next week is already impossible after feeding on pain killers for many days and the sleepless nights waking up to the pain! The worst part is the service ethics of these pple! At least, they could have sound sympathetic even if they could not expedite my appt.

Luckily, Alexandra Hospital is nice enough to allow walk in and their service standard is great. I only waited for a mere 20mins. Oh, they are also listed as one of the lower priced dental clinics! Kudos!

Got an X-ray, consultation, some decision making process, 3 painful anesthetics jabs (Again!!!) and extracted the molar in front of the wisdom tooth.

It was after some twist and turn and pull and push that the tooth finally came out. The dentist kept telling me to breathe softly through my nose and to relax my tongue... thru out the most unbearable 30mins. Somehow, I felt like i had just went through a process similar to giving birth... was given my tooth in a zip lock bag to bring home. Everyone went Yekkkkkkk.... when they saw it. Haha! It was indeed big and ugly.

Felt funny now with a tooth missing.... not too bad for appearance wise as you can't really tell the difference, but the rest of my teeth felt weak due to the soreness of the gums... there wasn't much of choices. If I were to keep the molar, I will have to go thru root canal and crowning of which costs 1k++ and 4 treatments and lots of pain!!! So I opt to remove it.

And guess what? I had prata today. Was craving badly for it. Haiz, it is always the case! When I can't eat, I feel like eating everything, and when I'm able to, nothing seems interesting. Contradictory.

Have to go back for a review to determine whether or not to remove the wisdom tooth. Arh... that's again lots of pain to endure. So much for a beautiful set of teeth.