It would be completely out of crackter for me to not write about my visit to the dentist, and my first ever (tang-da-dang) dental surgery. I can't even pretend to hope it's the last, for God knows I have sinned and will pay.
After being scared and reassured by more or less the same number of people, I went into my wisdom tooth removal procedure pooping in my pants, because it really has nothing to do with other people, does it?
On behalf of mom-in-law, I asked the dentist how long he's been practicing, and 8 years of post-grad dentistry seemed just about passable (after all industry mein naye talent ko chance dena chahiye etc).
It did not take the 20 minutes the ex-boss's wife told me it would. It did not take the one hour the dentist had told me it would. It took two godforsaken hours, the anaesthesia ran out in the middle, there was a time when three heads and four hands were inside my mouth looking for a tooth that was completely hidden behind a bone (wisdom is nothing if not deep-set). Meanwhile, I drank a lot of blood and "irrigation", which is probably the original recipe for a Bloody Mary, coz I sure was drunk by the end of it all.
Now two days have passed and all that's left is a cut at the corner of my mouth from the steel clamp holding it open for two hours, loose threads hanging in my mouth from the dentist's shoddy needlework, and the superhuman air-tasting ability of my tongue thanks to Ciplox TZ. Any parents reading this must have fainted or started weeping by now, for which I am very sorry to them. But the part of my wisdom that was sensitive to readers' feelings is lying in five pieces in the dentist's dustbin!
Actually, I'm doing quite well and having a happy day after a long time. :D
3 comments:
Really now, clearly you have left that wisdom behind:) How could you be happy after such awfulness
I seriously hope you get well soon... :-)
This was much better than if you would have got it done from an army doctor !!!
The stitches get loose, but not because the dentist was shoddy - he stitched you when your gum was
swollen from the surgery. When the swelling goes down, the stitches get loose and feel very wobbly
and strange. But they had to be big at first, because of the early stage swelling.
I've been trough this many times with my own tooth
problems, so I know this from watching it happen in my own mouth.
I hope you're feeling better now and it's healing up
well.
Regards, Murrday
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