Swordie Bloggie

At last, I pulled my bad tooth on Wednesday at one of the dentists at Kampung Air, Kota Kinabalu. The day before, Tuesday, I had it x-rayed at one of the dental clinic at Damai, Luyang and bought some pain killer… all for RM70.

It was not a straight forward tooth removal… my bad tooth shattered while the dentist tried to pull it out… the dentist has to do some surgery to pull the three roots buried deep into my strong gum 😛 The tooth foundation was still very firm… only the top part is bad.

Because of that, I have to spend RM500 instead of RM150 for just pulling one tooth!!! The tooth was quite bad… the filling on it which was done about 20 years ago was occupying almost the whole surface of my tooth. I should have fixed it long time ago or get myself a Blue Cross Blue Shield NC health plan… but I really don’t like visiting dentist…

Lesson learned… if you hate visiting the dentist… you must take a good care of your teeth’s health… coz bad teeth will make you suffer… but healthy teeth will save your money!!!

Almost unable to take the pain, I decided to go to the dentist this morning around 9.30am. Lucky, I’m not the type who easily goes berserk when having pain in the body… I was able to withstand the excruciating pain for 12 hours or so… plus lack of sleep…

I went to one of the dental clinic in Damai with my colleague which is opposite the shop we were having our late breakfast. I notice there are 3 dental clinics around Damai… probably more which I did not see. I actually call the clinic from the coffee shop to find out if they are busy… saw their number on the signboard. The nurse said there is an appointment around 10.00am… but I said, I will walk in after my meal… coz I’m having food next to their clinic 😛

The dental clinic looks big… the waiting area is huge… but there is only one dentist and two nurses. Registered myself… then in less then 3 minutes, I was called into the ‘operation’ room… I was lucky to get the appointment coz their two patients have not turn up yet for the 10am appointment… probably they couldn’t find a parking space… getting parking in Damai is like hitting a jackpot especially during office hours.

While waiting to be called, I scan through the pictures pasted on the clinic’s wall. Some shows before and after results… like one of it shows how jagged and bad teeth looks before getting treatment… and once corrected it shows sparkling teeth… arrange nicely like marble tiles… and there is also picture showing teeth with metal stuff on it, instead of arranged like marble tiles, it looks like copper tile 😛

Told the dentist my problem… I wanted the tooth to be pulled… but when he tried to shake the tooth with his hand, he said it’s still strong… and since it is a molar tooth… I heard ‘molar’, so it must be the name of the tooth… it’s harder to pull coz it has 3 legs… 😛 if pulling not successful, I might have to do operation… WHAT???

OK… I ask for second option… and I ask for an X-Ray of  my tooth… he said, if the tooth can be saved, I can opt for root canal… emmm… sound lots of drilling, and I don’t like drilling… lying on the dentist chair and listening all the lecture makes me sweat…

At the end he ask me to think about it first… so I ask for painkiller… he offer me ‘panadol’… WHAT???… I can get that at any shop… I ask for a stronger one… he offered me a capsule which cost RM10 each… I bought 4 of them since he is only free on Friday if I plan to come back… 😛 Well, I might do the root canal… 😛