With Stiches in My Mouth

...mine was rather in Level 4...

Finally, it's my dental appointment~ happy?...NO!

Had the appointment made about a week ago. I drove myself down to Miri Hospital for my 9am appointment with the dentist. There weren't much people in the specialist clinic. I waited for half an hour to have my xray (I love the xray machine...it's so COOL~). After the xray, I waited for another 15 minutes before I was brought to the medical examination room where I met my dentist and his assistant (a trainee). He was a funny dentist, though. He went and checked on my xray while I was left with one medical staff who was telling me how the procedure will be and how much it will cost.

The big question came: You need to do the surgery. When do you want to do it?

I was left silent on the chair for a moment. My thought was that if I NEED to do the surgery, then I'll do both at the same time. But, the doctor wasn't keen to do it. So I chose to first do the one on my left.

The medical staffs came in and prep the room...wah~ lots of equipments. My body was shaking uncontrollably (I was damn scared!). So I called mum to inform her and called my housemate after. 

The dentist injected the anesthetic (lots of times) and kept asking if it was painful. The funny thing was he didn't tell me what sign should I show if it's painful and if it's not. So i just nod and put my thumbs up. 'Your sign is confusing,' the dentist later said. -.-"

The surgery went for about half an hour. There were 3 trainees, 3 other medical staffs looking at me when the dentist did the surgery! There were cutting, grinding, scrapping, pushing, sewing to get the tooth out and put the gums back.

I walked out of the clinic and found out that I don't bring enough money to pay, so I decided to head for the pharmacy first and later to airport to get money and back to hospital to pay the RM240 for the whole procedure.

It is seriously painful and now it is starting to swell. Good thing is that I have the whole weekend until Monday to have the swell subsides before going to campus.

~Now I'm one more tooth less~