Mouth problems many many..

Today is not the day yet. went to NDC for consultation and X-ray. It cost me $52 and had more problems discovered.

Phew, luckily it was not a trainee dental officer who attended to me. It was a Registrar who is quite nice, serious and professional. The trainee officer is poor-thing..she runs errand for the registrar eg: Can you switch off the radio in the next-door? Can you show her the way to the Xray room? Can you get ready the form or sth. Ha, i thought they are supposed to be trained as dentists, not errand runners and messengers? But, good for me still.

Dr Wong said i have crooked jaw. He suggested Orthognathic Surgery which is to cut open my face/cheeks to rearrange the lower part of jaw! Gosh, my jaw nearly dropped then! But to do that surgery, an orthodontist will allign the patients' teeth first..by putting braces, which would take about 2 years..but b4 putting braces, the maxilofacial dentist muz extract all the wisdom teeth first. wow, addin up, the whole process would take years. So i said, i think i dont want that. But i think i would like to have straight sets of teeth and a symmetrical face. I had noticed that my face is unsymmetrical long ago and suspected that i've dislocated jaw few weeks ago when i read up on oral problems. Think i might change my mind and do the surgery few years later. It should cost alot since it requires 5 days of hospitalisation.

Back to wisdom teeth probs, Xray shows that there are 4 of them. 1 is embedded. i am right! My intuition is right! That polyclinic Dr Co said 3!@#$%^&* The top one which is embedded is jialat cos its v high up, which is v near the nose pathway. If not careful, a whole will be created and link to the passage way. what would happen next would be v sorry..then the patient muz always go there to clean that passage way permanantly. A tragedy. I dont wanna end up likedat! I am scheduled to remove 2 teeth at one go..top right and bottom right. Eww, so sick at that thought. the surgery costs about $340, after subsidy.

Thus in conclusion, my mouth sucks. and i think i am ugly..thanks to the swollen cheek due to the jaw.






Orthognathic surgery.scary sia.