My Trip to the Dentist's...

Wokay. I've decided to go the dentist's.

Because? The government asked us to visit the dentist every half a year, and so I went with a basketful of fruits, to see how the dentist was doing.

Actually, no. Because I had this biggest cavity EVER, and after filling it the first time a long long time ago, it started to wear off. And only half was left. I didn't see that as a problem, I got along with my everyday life fine, I didn't even feel any different towards it. Until the day my wisdom decided to grow not from the conventional from bottom to top [upwards], but from back to front [sideways] - which I didn't think of. It never occurred to me it was the wisdom [tooth] that gave me pain. I thought it was a rotten tooth, and so consulted the dentist with the expectation of just filling my tooth, or if it's that damn bad, have it extracted. But then she told me it was a wisdom tooth, and it needs to be extracted. But she didn't get to that right away, however. In fact, she found another way to earn more money out of poor ol' me, and told me that half worn tooth needs to be re-filled. OK, so I listened to her, but she charged too much for the extraction, I ran somewhere else to extract my wisdom. Tooth.

The drilling. The filling. THE HORROR!!!

But I digress. The main point is, she re-filled something that was OK to start with, albeit imperfect. And not long afterwards, the WHOLE mercury thinga-magic she put in my mouth fell off. I have been living since, with a hole in my tooth. And today, I plucked up the courage to visit the dentist's again to address this problem.

I had my qualms about visiting PK [Pusat Kesihatan] in UKM. Because if they can't even prescribe proper, effective cold relief meds, how are they to treat this sick little tooth? But never mind, I've had my teeth checked every year in school by government dentists, I'm gonna give them one chance at this.

PK's very own dental clinic.

I reached at about 10.05am, and waited no less than 2hours for my turn. When I first got there, they were treating patient #2002, and I was #2006. Sien ah, sitting there for 2 hours watching lame shows on TV3, there weren't any cartoons. Sien ah...

Got so bored waiting...

Even Ah Pek also got bored and walked around, reading boring stuff.

OK, stepped in, was a bit blur, they asked me to put my bag down but didn't tell me where. Then the dentist [who was very nice, unlike the assistant who was damn LCLY] told me to put on the table. How I know? You talking to another girl ma, she sitting at the table, you think I so buay pai seh and straightaway "fump" my bag on the table meh? Ish... But anyways...

I saw the cutest thing when I was in the dentist's chair. You know there's a small sink where you rinse and PUTOOI! into ma? And sure got one small little cup, rite? This cup they had, was damn cute!

See? I oso got teeth!

Even tooth got teeth one! Donch pray pray ah...

Xi shua shua, xi shua shua... I am so clean!!! Automated cleaning teeth is the way to go!!!

Wahrao, if all our teeth start cleaning and bathing themselves like this, then no need to buy even the most canggih Oral-B eclectic toothbrush liao la! Sure no need visit dentist one!

Must dry. If not then later grow kulat how?

Can wipe clean summore. Smart or not you say? Must train my teeth to be liddat liao... No need any hassle. Just provide a very small toothbrush and a very small tube of toothpaste, and they will brush liao then pass around one. When done, remember to give them a towel to dry themselves.

Me getting bored. In my bib. Hey, I'm not a kid liao, ok?

OK, anyways... I was brought to have an X-ray of my Hole-in-1 tooth, and she started with scaling. That's "washing your teeth" in layman terms... And it is the most painful thing ever!!! T~T If you get high from inflicting pain on yourself, no need tyo use knife and DIY. Go to a dentist, ask for scaling. Guaranteed the "highest" moment of your life, and you can also get clean teeth at the end. Benefit leh...

The pain was soo intense, I cringed and fidgeted like dono what, man. My whole body was tensed up, and she told me to relax. Hello? Relax? How? You sit in my place and see? At the end of it, I was so blur from pain, the tissue bib that around my neck, the assistant handed to me for wiping my mouth after rinse. But what did I do? I spat all the blood directly INTO the tissue. Smart, eh? Looked in the mirror and I saw bloody gums. And my gums felt funny. She scaled off half my gum and now I felt like gum was missing in places I never knew I had gum. Kanasai...

Before I left, she told me about my Hole-in-1 buddy. She said, I have 2 choices. One, totally extract it. 2, do root treatment. I don't mind doing extraction, problem is, the wisdom I extracted the last time round was from the same row, same side, and if I extract this one too, I'd have too much of empty space, and I'm afraid that the other side which is overpopulated with a wisdom tooth will push everything to this side... haiyoh... But the root treatment is not available in UKM, which means I have to pay for it, and it takes 3 visits to get it right. Price: RM600++. Sien ah.. Guess I'll have to go for the extraction, eh? Ish...

On the way back, saw a side of UKM not many people knew of... Here it is...

UKM's scenery...