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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Wisdom Teeth
Extracted both my wisdom teeth yesterday. Right side, top and bottom.
Did it at Alexandra Hospital Dental Clinic.
I was supposed to do all 4 at a time under general anasthesia (GA), but having the ultra-worried mum, she made me do 2 at a time under local anasthesia (LA).
Ok I was just scared about enduring the injections to the gum for LA so I opted for GA at first. Heard about all the horror stories about injecting numerous times directly to the gum and I was cringing in fear each time I heard it, as though feeling the pain already. Thot that the worst part of the surgery was the injections. But boy! I was very wrong!
The injections to the gums were okie and it was nothing like I've heard. Just fine, almost painless needles inserted to almost every corner of my right gum. She refused to tell me how many injections I needed, but silently counting.. it seems like 5-10 injections!!
I am quite lucky to have a skilfull surgeon and at first I was still having doubts about doing in a hospital, and regretted not being able to go for a private surgeon.
And the read ordeal really began after my right side of the mouth turned numb and when I was covered under the green surgery 'cloth'...
Being fully conscious throughout the surgery cooks up lotsa (unneccesary) fear in me. Maybe opting for GA would be much better, cos ignorance is indeed bliss during the surgery. Whatever I could not see but can hear conjures up all the imagined visual images in my brain.
First it was the drilling sound to split my horizontally growing wisdom tooth into half for easy extraction. The scary drilling noise terrifies me so much, especially when I thought of whether she'll lose control and continue drilling into my gums if she did not stop the drill in time. I really regretted not having a faith at that point in time. Because my hands were clasped so tightly but I could not utter any prayers to any higher-being which I firmly do not believe in existence. So I could only keep assuring myself to be brave and strong and have absolute confidence in the dentist and changed to crossing my fingers instead.
It helps. :)
After the drilling, the yanking of the teeth took place. It took 2 more nurses to pin me down while the dentist extracted my 2 bottom molar fragments and the top wisdom tooth. Somehow I wasn't feeling so scared at this point, at least the worse or so I felt, was long over.
Luckily the few minutes did not drag forever and it was really a simple operation.
Now my right side of my jaw jus felt empty, for the 2 wisdom teeth that I've been keeping in my mouth were gone. But there will be no more digging of food morsels after every meals, especially nuts.. all kinds of nut fragments tend to get stuck in the gap.
But now I am already dreading having to relive the ordeal all over again.. definitely a few months later!!
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8:50 PM
