Wisdom no more
Had my wisdom tooth extraction today. Was a bit apprehensive because of the need to operate on it, as the tooth was growing horizontally towards my molar and getting near to a nerve. Part of its roots was entrenched behind some bone, so need to shave a bit of the bone...eee, sounds scary...
The dentist administered 4 injections around the tooth on the 4 different nerves near it so as to minimize any pain during the surgery. He had to saw my tooth into 4 parts in order to remove it completely, and also as I mentioned, the bone-sawing to get to the roots. Anyway, by sheer bad luck, the aircon in the clinic broke down, so he was sweating non-stop while having tug-of-war with my wisdom tooth. The whole procedure lasted slightly more than an hour, and all of us - dentist and nurse and myself - were exhausted by the time everything was over (I was exhausted trying to counter his tugging of my tooth, yet I didn't dare to move much either lest my movements cause accidental slips and..*shudders). I also had to have my upper tooth removed because it was part of "a pair" with the wisdom tooth. With the wisdom tooth's demise, this unlucky tooth will have nothing to bite on, so it had to be removed too, and this was done in under 5mins. Anyway, I had to bite on a gauze to apply pressure on the now-empty tooth socket to stop bleeding.
Now on a 5-day MC...before you start envying me, it's nothing to be happy about, because I can only take liquid diet/porridge on the first day (I could only have a Milo before taking the painkiller, and after that had to go hungry for some 8 hours after). I was listless and lethargic the whole day because of the loss of blood, though I just had to go get The New Paper just as to read reports on Liverpool's win - HOORAY! Liverpool's win gave me the courage to face my fears of the surgery...haha...
Alamak, I now feel a bit stupid without the wisdom tooth, how? *Snigger*
The dentist administered 4 injections around the tooth on the 4 different nerves near it so as to minimize any pain during the surgery. He had to saw my tooth into 4 parts in order to remove it completely, and also as I mentioned, the bone-sawing to get to the roots. Anyway, by sheer bad luck, the aircon in the clinic broke down, so he was sweating non-stop while having tug-of-war with my wisdom tooth. The whole procedure lasted slightly more than an hour, and all of us - dentist and nurse and myself - were exhausted by the time everything was over (I was exhausted trying to counter his tugging of my tooth, yet I didn't dare to move much either lest my movements cause accidental slips and..*shudders). I also had to have my upper tooth removed because it was part of "a pair" with the wisdom tooth. With the wisdom tooth's demise, this unlucky tooth will have nothing to bite on, so it had to be removed too, and this was done in under 5mins. Anyway, I had to bite on a gauze to apply pressure on the now-empty tooth socket to stop bleeding.
Now on a 5-day MC...before you start envying me, it's nothing to be happy about, because I can only take liquid diet/porridge on the first day (I could only have a Milo before taking the painkiller, and after that had to go hungry for some 8 hours after). I was listless and lethargic the whole day because of the loss of blood, though I just had to go get The New Paper just as to read reports on Liverpool's win - HOORAY! Liverpool's win gave me the courage to face my fears of the surgery...haha...
Alamak, I now feel a bit stupid without the wisdom tooth, how? *Snigger*
posted by Jenny Teo @ 5:50 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:29 PM,
cruzteng said…
hey hey... my wisdom tooth was extracted in 03... f**king scary man.. same as yours, mine growing horizontally, it was sawn into 3 parts, instead of your 4.
i'll never forget the tugging at the dentist's and the aftermath- the constant taste of blood in the mouth, the swelling, etc *phui*
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