Dental Dilemma
7th Jul 2008 @ 5:53 pm - Subscribe
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Take good care of your teeth. If not, making it good again when you are an adult will cost you an arm and a leg (somewhat). In Malaysia at least.
I don't know why one of my gigi geraham decided to go rotten. It just did. It was not like I was some kampung girl with no toothbrush and toothpaste to clense my teeth with (not that kampung girls thesedays are lacking in hygiene items).
It isn't just one. Bad things comes in pairs (kind of like sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga thing). I've managed to have a dentist pull one out. It wasn't called "cabut gigi", it was an MOS = Minor Oral Surgery. Which sounds scary. Rightfully so. It was then that I found, you probably have to work out and have some muscles to be a dentist. At least arm work-outs. The dentist had to anchor her (yep, a she dentist who was half my size) foot onto the base of the dentist chair, hold on to these awful pinchers with both hands, and used all her might to pull out a stubborn rotten geraham (I can be such a lazy bum to find what gigi geraham is in English....even the lights in my head is a bit dim). All this was done while I was heavily nipped with some strong numbing pain killer thing.
I think the dentist chucked my tooth in a dustbin. I'd forgotten to ask for it. Then again, would I even want a rotten tooth as a souvenir.
So there I was, my face half distorted, with a tingling sensation running through what felt like a clay of a face. I was fully warned beforehand that when the pain killer wears off, I would be experiencing some sort of pain. The way she said it was like I'd be under waves and waves of pain and I had to consume pain killers on time.
I waited until 10 pm for this wave of pain to overwhelm me. The wave never arrive.
So how much damage did the whole thing cause to my pocket? About RM500. And the company only have an RM300 subsidy per year for dental care. Which means, for the rest of the year, all dental cost will be under my own facility. Great. I have another tooth that needs to be taken care off.
What I've learnt : make full use of dental floss. Once a month just doesn't cut it.
I don't know why one of my gigi geraham decided to go rotten. It just did. It was not like I was some kampung girl with no toothbrush and toothpaste to clense my teeth with (not that kampung girls thesedays are lacking in hygiene items).
It isn't just one. Bad things comes in pairs (kind of like sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga thing). I've managed to have a dentist pull one out. It wasn't called "cabut gigi", it was an MOS = Minor Oral Surgery. Which sounds scary. Rightfully so. It was then that I found, you probably have to work out and have some muscles to be a dentist. At least arm work-outs. The dentist had to anchor her (yep, a she dentist who was half my size) foot onto the base of the dentist chair, hold on to these awful pinchers with both hands, and used all her might to pull out a stubborn rotten geraham (I can be such a lazy bum to find what gigi geraham is in English....even the lights in my head is a bit dim). All this was done while I was heavily nipped with some strong numbing pain killer thing.
I think the dentist chucked my tooth in a dustbin. I'd forgotten to ask for it. Then again, would I even want a rotten tooth as a souvenir.
So there I was, my face half distorted, with a tingling sensation running through what felt like a clay of a face. I was fully warned beforehand that when the pain killer wears off, I would be experiencing some sort of pain. The way she said it was like I'd be under waves and waves of pain and I had to consume pain killers on time.
I waited until 10 pm for this wave of pain to overwhelm me. The wave never arrive.
So how much damage did the whole thing cause to my pocket? About RM500. And the company only have an RM300 subsidy per year for dental care. Which means, for the rest of the year, all dental cost will be under my own facility. Great. I have another tooth that needs to be taken care off.
What I've learnt : make full use of dental floss. Once a month just doesn't cut it.
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