Tale of a wisdom tooth

Last week, i went to see the dentist. Ive been having this toothache since forever as far as i remember. I thought it was a hole, so all it needs, is the filling. The pain is sometimes unbearable that it brought tears to my eyes. Other times, it annoying me cause the food keep getting stuck. The pain mostly cause by that, and i dont enjoy my food when it did. I am a big-eater, so i want to be able to eat without having to worry about how to pick the food out of my tooth later.

I know the dentist will cost me fortune here in London. Umpy removed and filled his tooth for a handsome £1,500.00! Say what? That was years ago, and that was mother-fucking-ass-hole-ing expensive! With that amount of money, i can get myself a nice handbag AND on top of that, to pay off my rent. Yeah, for some lucky people out there, £1,500.00, cost them A BAG, but i could get more than just a bag, u know what i mean? But oh well, my point is that, its hellalot of money dude. So forget these crazy throat-cutting dentist, instead i go home, back in Malaysia and did it for a tiny £150.00.

So i went in, confident! The moment i sat on that dentist chair, my heart beats fast! The hell? Less than a minute, the lady dentist, said its a wisdom tooth, i need to remove it. Half of the tooth was in the gum, so it came out half, hence the gap i.e. hole. If i dont remove it, there's a good possibility, that there will be a hole on that last tooth before the wisdom tooth. Plus, our wisdom tooth is "functionless", as per the dentist. It left me with no choice but to remove it.

Ive decided to remove it the next day so i can eat as many food as i want today, as the dentist told me that i'll be on a liquid diet for at least 2-3 days. She said its not gonna hurt a bit, so i trusted her. It was in the morning. The minor surgery took me 1 hour. Oh my gosh, i feel like crying while opening up my cheek, because i had to do so for 1 bloody hour and its fucking tiring! And because its tiring, it kinda hurt a bit having to open up your mouth that wide, that long! She said its difficult to pull it out because its my biting side, and because it is, the tooth got even deeper inside the gum. She kept changing and looking at different equipments trying to pull my tooth out, its that hard!

*my wisdom tooth*

An hour later, its done. It was such a relief. The dentist start sewing the gum that she cut earlier, and i still didnt feel a thing. It did not hurt a bit, cause i was drugged for approximately 2 hours. She then told me, it will be gone in 1/2 hours time. I was asked to take the paracetamol when i start feeling the pain. It was supposed to be after 30mins that i should feel the pain, but instead it kick in after 20mins. OMFG, it hurts so fucking bad i swear! I took the paracetamol, it was so strong i felt asleep immediately, and woke up only to change the gauze, and then later in the late evening. Its like a proper surgery, except that its in your mouth. RESTING after the surgery, is a MUST!

No one told me its gonna hurt so fucking bad after the surgery, but not during the surgery. Well, thats everyone's main concern when they're undergoing an operation, so i understand if the dentist was reluctant to tell me that "tale" of a post surgery. Also, here's a NO-NO after the surgery:

1. No smoking

2. No gargling

3. No spitting

4. No hot food and beverages

5. No rubbing the area with your tongue

6. No sucking (oi, stop that thought. No straw sucking i mean!)

I was given two different types of anti-biotics and three different types of painkillers. Thats a lot of pills to swallow at one time, but ive never had problems with medicine, so i'm cool about it. What sad is that, it was my 2nd and last week at home, and my plan of eating lotsa food before i come back to London gone outta window. I was left with a humongous left cheek because of the inflammation, inability to open up my mouth and also not being able to eat properly. The dentist said that the stitches will dissolve by itself, and up til today, i can feel it with my tongue, like its hanging out of nowhere like a food stuck between your teeth, its bloody annoying!

*three different painkillers*

A week later today, it still in its healing process. Ive done researches on the internet, that it took months for the surgery to actually heal completely. Although i can already eat solid food by now, but i am very careful not to eat on that side of my mouth, plus its still difficult for me to open my mouth. I eat very slowly that sometimes its kinda frustrating not being able to eat normally. My cheek, they're smaller now, but i can still see the bump, and it still hurt until now. I cant touch my left cheek, but if i have to, i will do it very carefully and gently. I still have that tingling feeling on that side of my mouth, where sometimes i can feel the sensation due to the surgery that i had.

Well, i maybe forget how it feels like having done the surgery say a year from now, so its better if i blog about it today, so i wont be that confident about removing another tooth if i have to one day. I vow to not visit the dentist ever again! Never! I will take good care of my teeth. Promise! 

Guess i was wise for a good few months coming into the big three O, and back to not being so wise now, or maybe i dont need wisdom tooth after all. I am a wise girl indeed...or am i? Oh what the hell! Now, which one of u is my stingy tooth fairy who took away my wisdom tooth, and yet leave nothing under my pillow? Hmm..

-lady-