Putting on braces on the top row

Finally after weeks of waiting i manage to put on braces on my top teeth. I waited so long that my feeling of fear has turn to anticipation. Its like "screw the pain and just bring it on~!!"

I m glad that the putting on braces is non painfull but my mouth feel very numb from opening it for long duration. When gargle that time i could not close my mouth properly.

I did not really ask him the procedure today. I know the purpose is to loosen the teeth first. When the teeth are loosen only he will thighten the braces. Tat why it wont be painful today. What i notice is that he will put some kind of acid on my teeth - gargle - put gum on bracket and stick it on every teeth -let it dry - put wire - tighten the wire with rubber band and a kind of steel. We can choose the rubber band color and i have chosen light pink! I thought of trying the hot pink but i cant imagine how it will look like so its better to choose light color. I think choosing the color that u like give u a kind of moral boost when u look at the mirror~ another 3 weeks of waiting for my next appointment in which he will check my top teeth then only do braces on my bottom row.

On the same day i ate fried chicken but i cant tear the meat using the front teeth. So what i do is that i tear up the meat into tiny pcs and insert into my mouth and ate using my back teeth. On the next day my front teeth are even more useless. The root has loosen a little so even normal grinding teeth to teeth will be painful. Today i ate porridge-pork ball-vege. When i eat the pork ball i have to shred it into tiny pcs and use back teeth to chew. The vege turn out surprisingly harder to chew than the meat cos the vege will get stuck in the braces. At one point i choke cos the vege trap between the back braces and my throat! Now that i have to eat those porridge, i feel hungry really easily. To me the feeling of hunger is more miserable than the braces.

When i clean my teeth after eating i will be a bit paranoid of checking any food stuck in my teeth. I could not imagine a vege wedges stuck in my teeth for days without realizing it. When i eat rice it will definitely trap in my braces. Rice are simple to remove. I just have to gargle first before brushing. When brushing, the doctor has given me a special brush which i can only brush left and right at the braces.

Now third day i still eat very slowly but getting use to the sensation. Overall i am coping well with it. But i am going to get multivitamin and protein powder next. Cos i have a hard time eating so i wont be able to eat many things and second the protein will make me feel satiated and full. The protein can use as quick fix for breakfast too. The protein just add 1 scoop and 1 cup of water and ta da~

Scaling was bad today :(

Hai, just when i thought scaling was a std non messy/painfull procedure - i was very wrong! Today is yet again another bloody gum day~

I think i am getting a little sick of the dentist room smell. I went there so many time that i associate the smell with pain. Immediately i shift to auto mode-high alert and i start to tense up when i enter the room. But i tell myself "not to worry-lar as it is only scaling-ma~!" All the scaling experience i went through are nice and non bloody experience if i am in private clinic~ haha today my concept has change dramatically.

I think today he is in a bad mood cos he is not really smiling when i greet him. He is very quick to scale and its painful. I dont noe what they use but the water splash all over my face (it doesnt matter tat my face are covered with large sunglasses). After finish he didnt give me mirror to look at the result like all the other dentist do... feeling that the whole process was a little to quick to belief i went to the bathroom to look. Sure enough he did not scale the top of my teeth. I was a bit disappointed but i am not going to pursue the matter. Next appointment will be bracket and wiring. Wah if i didnt ask him also i wont knw wat is going on~!! Then while waiting for this day to come (another 3 week of waiting game) I intend to pray fervently before i visit him that he is in a good mood..... pls be gentle~~

Finish taking out all 6 teeth

Picture: My side-front teeth. Too bad i did not bring back my wisdom tooth

Finally i pluck out all of my 6 teeth. I find that the dentist definitely suffer from mood swing syndrom. Sometimes he can be gentle/rough when he is in a hurry. I know, because i have to repeat each process twice. When i take out the front side 2 teeth, he press on my lower gum so hard after injection that he left a "love bite" on my face. I thought what he did was a necessity/part of the process but when i went again to pluck out the other 2 front teeth the following week, he massage my face gentle... same goes for the wisdom tooth. The first one was "nice" while the second one was horrifying.

The next time i visit him will be for cleaning and then after 3 weeks only can do braces. My journey to put on braces will take 2 months. Why? First because i am too scared to take out all at one shot (have to inject 6 time to take out 6 teeth and i am a extreme dental phobic) and second because his schedule are pack~~

Taking out the first 2 side teeth

I have to take out another 4 teeth near the front/side. Hai.... feeling sad that i have to take out so many teeth... normal human being is 32 teeth... while mine will eventually be 26 teeth... i think i am fast becoming an alien...

In this dentist date, i took out 2 teeth first cos i am too chicken to take out all 4. Have to inject twice to the right to take out 2 teeth. After injecting, i will have to wait about 15 min for my mouth to numb. Haha funny thing happen is after he inject, i will have to gargle my mouth. I was very sure that i close my mouth when i gargle. Then the dentist look at me in surprise... "hey u are spilling on the floor lah~!" The water was spilling from the part that are injected....the sight is so funny.

The pulling of the teeth is rather fast. I didn't realize the teeth is out so fast. First he wriggles the teeth back and forth to loosen its hold. Then he tug out the teeth real fast. But the after effect is terrible. I had so much blood spilling out, i look like a vampire....

When the whole thing is done, i went downstairs to sit in front of a massage shop.... my mum wanted to go market and ask me to look after the car. And i was like alright, i will wait for u. Many passer by walk past me in that alley and ALL of them stare at me. I sat there a whole 15 minute thinking that they are all morons and that they had never seen ppl with a cotton sticking into the side of the mouth. I am especially piss with an old man who stare at me continuously although he had already walk past me... self consciously i touch my mouth and realize its wet all the way to my chin and neck. In shock, i look down at my shirt and realize my shirt is red and wet with blood and saliva! Wow... i was so surprise and paiseh.... i will never forget this experience.... no wonder all the ppl is staring at me. In the end i ran to the car and stuff tissue into my dripping mouth...

A few hours past and the blood is still flowing... all my tissue is soak. Once it stop, i am so glad and i doze off a little.... I took back the tooth and my tooth is really big.... when i am eating rice.. the food stuck into the gum hole... haha its really terrible... my gum now look like a food storage hole... after a few hours my mouth recover and i even went sg after i felt better. The next day i had buffet :)

Horror at 2nd wisdom tooth extraction

I just had my second wisdom tooth taken out one week after the first. Thats a few weeks ago. It took me a while to write in blog cos i had a bad experience with it. The doctor arrive late for half an hour and he seems to want to do things in a hurry. He was rather rough that day. Things goes smoothly after the injecting and cutting the gum (though the injection still hurt). Then he proceed to cut my teeth in half. This time around, he tried to pull out my teeth even though the teeth havent been cut into half. Its terrible painful! It is like he is trying to pull out my soul... unsuccessfully. when he realize my teeth haven not been cut into half completely, he then grind it some more. He repeat this process 3 times. I am almost in tears then.

When i come back i realize that he accidentally cut the side of my mouth and he stitch it up. I was so upset cos it bleed when i brush my teeth. I am glad that i only have to pluck out 2 wisdom tooth. Although this doctor is skillful, i think he lacks TLC... it stands for tender loving care. Haha too bad they don't really care about patient opinion and i can either continue or switch dentist. If i noe there is good dentist then i will switch. Too bad i dont knw.... sob... sob...

Today i pluck out my first wisdom tooth~

This morning had my wisdom tooth operation. I am very scared about it. When i do the surgery i try to think about anything else while the dentist inject, cut the gum, crack the teeth into 2, take out the teeth then sew.

In the middle of the surgery there is a machine failure! The doctor was like oops something is wrong. It scare me like shit. But overall i think he is efficient in term of his skill. He had my teeth out in minute. There is still pain but not as much as i imagine. Injection was painfull but after a few minute i feel that half of my mouth and tongue dont belong to me. Its so numb. I dont feel painfull when my gum is cut and my teeth is crack. But when the teeth is being tug out and when my wound is sewn then there is a slight pain and a very eerie feeling. I can feel the thread going thru my gum.

Just when i thought the worst is over, the after math is even worse. My gum bleed for 2 hours and my mouth swell like a golf ball. The swelling make me unable to chew or talk. I have to wet a towel with warm water and put it on my face (hem.... why warm water? thought when there is a swelling shd cover cloth with ices? anyone knows?). My mum blend the porridge for me so that i dont have to chew. Beside the swelling i feel a bit feverish and i feel very hot when i want to sleep. When i brush my teeth i am carefull not to brush near the wound and gargle the mouth wash that they gave. I am rather worried that there is dirt stuck on the wound but i could not open wide my mouth and see. Hopefully nothing got stuck~~ end of first day. Hopefully tomorrow feel better :D

Scared of teeth braces (Malaysia)

Wow, me going to do my teeth soon (johor bahru, malaysia). Feel so damn scared cos i am a dentist-phobic. Just went for check up and the dentist want to pluck out 4 of my normal teeth and 2 of my wisdom tooth~!!

Wats more, the plucking out of the wisdom tooth is a SURGICAL procedure. It involve cutting out the gum, cut the teeth into two then pluck out the teeth and sewing back the wound~ Involve about 3-4 stitch~!! Me being a dentist phobic nearly freak out at this... but wat to do? My teeth so crooked... Then each time only can pluck out one wisdom tooth/2 normal tooth. The doctor schedule is amazingly pack~!! I am in a 2 weeks waiting list. So the total time to pluck out all the 6 teeth is about 3 weeks plus starting from the first wisdom tooth.

Good news is that he mention my teeth need not more than 1 yr 5 months to complete but i shd have done my teeth when i was younger. If i done it younger then i only need about 1 yr~~!!! When he first look at my teeth he say my teeth is really solid (in a negative tone). erm i shd feel elated right?