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had a 10 am dentist appointment today.

i dislike going to see the dentist and that’s just putting it nicely.  don’t get me wrong, my dentist is one of the nicest ladies i know, and i’ve been going there for well as long as i can remember.  its the tools of the trade that puts my hair on ends.  seriously all those drill like thingies that go into ur mouth.  to hear that horrible screeching sound coming from inside my mouth is much much worse.  ugh. and that flouride stuff that goes on after a cleaning and because of which i can’t eat for half an hour after that.  despite the fact that it has some sort of fruity flavouring to make it more “pleasant”, it’s so artificial that half the time i just feel like gagging.  and its not like i can rinse it out of my mouth, because then it would defeat the purpose of putting it in in the first place.  :p

its been awhile, i should have gone when i got back from the uk last july but i just put it off due to laziness and my fear.  seeing how i start work in about a weeks time, i thought it’d be best to go now and get it out of the way.  plus i was convinced that my teeth was in bad shape (paranoia at its best).

the good news is that my teeth really weren’t in as bad a condition as i thought they were.  all i needed was a good cleaning.  but even that kinda hurt when she got to the part where teeth meets gums.  >.<

the bad news however is that i’m going to have to have surgery to get out my wisdom tooth.  i’m going to need at least a week to recover after that.  it’s not growing straight, rather it’s impacting my other teeth, which is why i need to get it out.  i kind of knew about this the last time i was there, as she did mention it, probably another reason why i didn’t want to go back any time soon.  i was hoping that she would say it was ok to leave it there.  but she sure put it straight for me -  it has to be taken out.  :(  it can wait though, so i think it’ll be at least a year before i do it (i’ll get it done after pupilage and the plc).  the only thing i can take comfort in is that probably during recovery i might lose some weight as i will most likely be on a soft diet.

just hope i won’t feel like this kid after that

oh wells.. till october.  :p