Braces removed

Yesterday, ah ne ne removed the braces already. Upper and lower. Just cut cut cut and the whole thing been removed.

After 1.5 years, the pain, the sore have given me a set of very nice looking and well-aligned teeth.

So tired now, let continue after having a rest. ;) stay tune...

Last few dental appointments

I went to my dental appointment again today, in fact it was yesterday as it is now passed 12 already. I've been visiting him more frequent for the past two months. Initially was once a month but it became fortnightly 3 months ago and now is every week since 2 months ago. Ah ne ne (a nick I called my dentist cause he is the only Indian dentist in the clinic that time when I first met him, my first appointment with him. no discrimination here. apologize if anyone felt offended.) said he is trying to close some of the gap and need me to visit him more often. And thus, I became the regular patient as what his supervisor said.

In these two months visit, he did quite a lot on my teeth.

Every week different style of elastic band, have to put on 24/7. (zombie style, vampire style, half frankenstein style etc, from can still eat with wearing the band till can't even move my teeth at all now.)
Re-shaping and grinding my teeth almost every 2 weeks.
Do another mold. Did one in my very first visit. posted the photo in my FB
Took 5 x-ray. 2 in new building and 3 in old building which x-ray on film.
and etc...

From very complicated case as what he used to put beside his mouth to a really good case which he was asked by his supervisor to present my case in his exam. I think he is considered quite a good dentist. And so do his supervisor, she is very professional. I should thank both him (Dr Kaval) and his supervisor (Dr Tan if I am not wrong, hehe) as well.

And yesterday, he told me that the braces might be able to remove either next week or the week after. Mix feeling, of course I felt excited and looking forward. 但是，就是有种莫名的不知所措。(sorry have to use chinese for this as I really can't think of how to write it in english.)

Anyway, let's see the result in two weeks time. ;)

My teeth

It has been quite some time since my last update on my braces diary.

I went to see my ah ne ne dentist yesterday. He did some check up and explain to his supervisor about what he observed. They then discussed how to proceed. In fact, his supervisor is the one giving out 90% of the instruction.

Every time after my appointment with ah ne ne dentist, I can feel the pain and "sour sour" kind of feeling at the gum area. Most of the people who put braces before told me that they didn't feel any pain at all. I wonder is my problem or what. However, although I can feel the pain, it's just not tat kind of very very painful type.

Yesterday, after the tightenning, I still felt ok. As usual, the pain and sour feeling don't appear that soon. Few hours later, the pain started to let me know he is coming. I can barely eat french fries during the dinner. The feeling is like ah ne ne has tighten the braces a few level more than usual. Maybe he wanna close my case asap and no need to see me again. ;p I dunno. I just felt very very very pain till I have to take two panadol to "kill" the pain. FYI, I don't usually take panadol unless that is very very very serious case.

Hai... now then I think, what is the main reason of putting the braces. To torture myself? for slimming purpose? or I dunno... I remember I said before, I just hope to have two rows of aligned teeth.

Pre-Braces day 7

I got my 2 wisdom teeth out yesterday morning. The appointment was set at 830am.

I was quite worry about the extraction. I fear of the pain after extraction. I fear of the feeling when I open my mouth for very long time and seeing the dentist put one after another tools in my mouth. I fear of the possibility that my tooth will be fractured inside during the normal extraction and need to walk to the next level for surgical extraction.

The whole process from the moment I see the dentist till I went out from the clinic is less than 20 minutes. The first 10 minutes, I asked her something. (ya, my Dr is a she. ask her before extraction just in case my mouth too swelling to talk.) The last 5 minutes is to do the payment. The 5 minutes in between include the time she injected the 麻醉药 to the area around the teeth to be extracted, the time she did her own stuff and preparation while waiting for the 麻醉药 to get effect, some time for... Anyway, what I trying to say is the time she extracted both of my teeth is like maybe less than 1 minute only. In short, she was very fast.

Emm.. a bit late now, 11sth pm now... Let me continue this post tomorrow. By the way, I will be meeting the Indian Dr tomorrow. He will help me put the metal on my lower teeth tomorrow. That will start my first day of brace day. Let's see how it go tomorrow. ;)

Pre-braces day 4

It is day 4 since the Indian Dr put the 2 elastic band in my mouth. It was very uncomfortable but I started to get used to it. (high adaptability ;p)

It is just don't feel good when I eat something which need to chew a lot. eg, meat, bread (some bread need to chew a lot) and etc. Anyway, I try my best to avoid those food. ;p

I received a SMS this morning. It was a appointment reminder from NDC (National Dental Centre). The reminder is to remind me on my appointment this Wednesday for the wisdom teeth extraction.

In fact, I wanted to reply them and tell them that I have not forgotten about this appointment ever since the moment I made this appointment.

Due to the way my wisdom teeth grow, the dentists (again there are many dentist viewing my case wherever I go) were telling me that it is still possible that they can perform normal extraction to extract my wisdom teeth. Only if the tooth got fracture inside during the extraction, they will send me to the surgical extraction.

My teeth looks scary, but the treatment to correct it sound more scary. Sigh...

May god bless me. Let them extract both the teeth smoothly and without leaving so much pain.

Pre-Braces day.

For your info, you will see my teeth in dental braces very soon. (iron teeth ;p) Thus, I think it would be good to start taking down how I feel during this braces days.

Since November last year, I started to go to NUH dental clinic (Clinic 2) for some dental check up. He is an undergrad dentist who going to grad very soon and have me as a patient for his FYP (final year project). I believe he has grad to become a dentist by now already.

During his check up (about 3 times), he took a few x-ray of my teeth. Front view, side view, inside view and etc. Can't imagine how much cell of my head/brain died during that period. ;p No wonder I found myself so forgetful since then. ;p (Still not forget to blame on other for my forgetfulness).

I saw my x-ray and have it with me now (need to loan it for wisdom teeth extraction). It looks damn scary. Dunno how to describe it. But you might be able to imagine it if you see my teeth. Just super very not align. Anyway, this is one of the reason I go for the Orthodontics treatment.

He also did a mold of both my upper and lower teeth. What I can remember from this is the moment he put the "mold mixture" into my mouth. The feeling is just so irritating and uncomfortable. It's like putting some mud inside the mouth (never try putting mud inside my mouth but this is what I think it would be the same feeling).

After the 3 appointments with this undergrad dentist, he started putting my name in the queue. Since then, I was just waiting for calls from someone who I do not know till few weeks ago.

He is an Indian postgrad dentist. During my first appointment with him, he asked me to have another 2 x-ray and did the mold of my teeth again. I don't like that mud in mouth feeling. Yet, due to my abnormal teeth + his skill, I need to have that mixture into my mouth 3 times to make upper and lower teeth mold with 1 time failure. Sigh...

From my first appointment with him, I realised that I have improper bite. Because of some measurement needed, he asked me to bite as per normal. I followed what he said but he asked me to bite again. He asked me, "Is this how you bite?". I said, "ya". He then holded my lower jaw and push them backward. He then said, "This is how you bite rite? When I ask you to bite next time, bite like this. Bite at the back."

Yesterday was the 2nd appointment with him. His professor and him were discussing about how to proceed for my case. As an outsider, I can see that his professor is a very experience and expert orthodontic dentist. When she came to my Indian Dr, a few of the other dentists came near us and stood there listen to what she said. They were whispering to each others and agreeing what she said. I had a feeling like I wasthe guineapig inside an aquarium under some kind of experiment and observation. One of them even asked me to show her how I bite. She said, "Bite. Bite at the back." Same bite requested.

After his prof has gone, he told me softly that his prof is an expert in this field. That's the reason he chose her to take care of my case as my case is a bit complicated and like what he said not that straight forward.

Ya, I myself agree that my case is a bit complicated. He explained to me what are some of the options I can consider like what I heard from the discussion between his prof and him. I started to do some research on the option he gave. Anyway, that would be a decision to be made not now but in few months time.

He put elastic band between my lower wisdom tooth and the tooth next to it. He put another elastic band at the other side also. That started my pre-braces treatment.

How I feel? I started to fear of the whole treatment. It's really uncomfortable to have something inside my mouth even though the band is just much much much smaller than 5 cents coin. Do not know how to describe the feeling.

This is just the 2nd day of the pre-braces day. He told me that he will start with putting the metal on my lower teeth next week. The upper side will only start few months later. The whole treatment should be around 2 years like that. Let's see how this diary will become in these 2 years time.