Pretty Butterfly

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

9.45am- Still surfing net
9.50am- Rush like dunno what...running into bathroom and comb my hair then rush down
9.55am- Ran back into house to get my specs
10.05am- Took a taxi to Shenton House
10.10am- Sitting on the dental's inclining chair
10.15am- A young lady came in who was at the counter just now
10.16am- Jitters because izzit her who is extracting my tooth?
10.18am- After 2 mins of jitters, she ask me whether i'm cold and nervous and just I replied no and yes respectively. My heart was pumping as fast as the clock infront of me. She told me Dr Tan is good at extraction and then I "huang ran da wu"
10.19am- Oh...she's a dental nurse not the doc...
10.20am- Dr Tan came in to check my teeth and sprayed anesthesia but later couldn't find specific locations of extraction of teeth on my patient's card.
10.21 to 10.25am- Dr Tan ask for clarification with Dr Yang, the one who is doing braces for me, about my teeth..so in the end only extract 1 instead of 3 first.
He told me to rinse my mouth too. I can feel my tooth and surrounding numbed..When i was about to rinse, I couldn't control my saliva and drip some on the chair...oh no..
10.28am-After confirming with the specific tooth, he gave my tooth another spray and informed the nurse to bring in the sterilized metallic tooth extractor. He carefully use it and extracted my tooth! I could feel something came off but there is no pain and the feeling is indescribable! He used cotton to stop any bleeding for a sec. And its done....must be the 500mg mefenamic acid i took in the morning and the doc's skill..hehe (During the whole preocess my eyes are closed)

U cannot blamed me for being scared leh...Got bad primary school memories...Even though i nv went to the primary school dental nurse or i might have forgotten...I heard horrible stories of the "evil" nurse that pluck off my classmates tooth and how painful the experience was...blah blah...Plus after each trip, a cotton will be stuck between their tooth and excess bledding cause a red stain...can't imagine. Luckily i asked my mom to opt me out of the dental scheme. Phew! So after so many years, i've nv been to a dentist except in Sec4 when i wanted braces. I saw a dentist in SGH.....zzzz...after doing xray and mould which make my corners of my mouth sore...nv forget. At second visit, she told me i have to do an operation due to my lower or upper jaw that is longer....=.=''' Immediately, this scare off my mum and myself. Up till this year, i thought this was needed. And then Huiyi recommend her dentist in NTUC Dentaicare. Hmm...second opinion...Dr Yang say it can be done even though its slightly complicated. Yes!
So i have assumption that SGH that Dental Centre must be because its heavily subsidise and need to wait up to 1 year to 2 years, scare me off by saying a opt is needed.......hmm....must be it....After that for 1 hour my tooth stay numb plus my upper left lip stay numbed for 2 hours too...feels like the lip rised a little...without my intention .......zzzzz still have another session

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