few months ago i had this terrible tooth ache. it was so painful that i couldnt smile for a few days. i thought that it would go away.... you know, heal by itself. till one of the saturday nites, i couldn't take it anymore, i sweared to visit my dentist when dawn breaks. to my DISMAY, my dentist threw a tantram when i visited him without an appointment. i explained that this is SOS but he said he is not free. so much so for 8 years of bloody business, mine and my husband's blood were there for 8 years but it didnt count. so nevermind, i left feeling very hurt emotionally and still the pain searing my every vein. finally, i walked in to a kind of "hospital" style dentist. told them my pain. this huge sized male dentist is old with experience and full of vigor. he said i have a root decay and need to do root canal to remove all the nerves that are already rotting or rotten. rats... that is really painful i tell you. the procedure is that they literally smash the roots that are imbeded in that tooth. you think ok, this is painful, i can bear with it. but each and every trust he digged brought pain to a painless cold sweat level. so ya that is my encounter at the dentist. something i tell people not to fear and to go for it. till i got this root canal thing that is.
few weeks later i went back to do the "proper" complete treatment. the other visit was just to remove the root and nothing's been done yet really. oh ok.. so what now i thought. blah blah got to put a post in the tooth to hold the fillings blah blah got to do crowning as the old tooth is too weak now... at the end of the day, i was asked to sign a consent form saying that i have to pay 1K or more and have to complete the treatment in 2 weeks. i said i have no such money, can i do it in installment? he said yes but got to sign consent form and finish in 2 weeks. i said no, can i do it over 4 weeks? he said no and then said i could leave. I COULD LEAVE! shit of course i could leave but how can he let me walk out of the door after taking away my roots my nerves and leave me with a damn hole in the mouth and say i could leave. how fucking irresponsible as a dentist for a profession. heartless dentist and both are men. sorry the pun but so happens they are men. my old dentist of 8 years and this irresponsible one.
as i walked out wondering like a lost puppy i found one dental surgery clinic at the ground floor. i expained my situation in vigor and the recept listened patiently. then she went in and told my story to the dentist. she came out and explained that the cost of the proceudre will also be about 1K but i can do is over 3 months, a visit a fortnight like that. ok i said but i dont want to sign a consent form i dont believe in signing anything why should i be made to do something against my will if i come, i come if i dont, that is my responsibility and not hers. she said ok. so i started this new relationship with this kind dentist. not only did she expain so gently every little procedure and why she is using this, why she is giving a jab etc, she showed me how to brush my gums which i think a lot of us dont know how. we brush and brush but the plague is there. anyway, i am finishing my entire root canal treatment with her by the end of the month and she has never pressed me to take the more expensive gold fillings for the crowned tooth but i guess it makes more sense to get a better holding material rather than having it fall off sooner than possible. so ya i will have gold in my mouth soon but not visible so dont you go laughing yet.
the most memorable part of this treatment is the gag order. the part where she needed to take a mold of my upper and lower set of teeth. it is like having playdoh stuff into you mouth and you really scaffocate and could breathe if your heart beats too fast, i think you'll just DIE. i honestly think that they should let us sign a consent form for this. in case really some old folks die in the middle of this. because you see you got to breath from your nostrils and it is really difficult when one of your nostril is kind of perpataurely blocked and you are caught off guard. so ya, they should let us sign a form so that we cant sue them if we die there.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
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