It took me alot of guts, courage and procrastination to come to this day where i have to come face to face with my fears. I have procrastinated for extract my wisdom tooth for up to 5 years or more now. It started off with minor pains is as if a normal tooth growth, sometimes left and sometimes on the right side. The pain normally comes when i’m heaty and my gums swells up (ya blame it on the heat), once the pain come, and i will say i’m gonna extract it out this time. Went for a dental visit, and the dentist advised me to extract the wisdom tooth to avoid any further complications in the future and consequences of not extracting overtime.
So 2-3 years ago, i took one step nearer to extracting it since there is the annual pain involved which comes haunt me yearly. I went for an x-ray which the dentist pointed me to, caused like RM65 for a tooth x-ray, weird way of x-ray. Standing, bite on something and the machines turns one round. That time when i asked the dentist, how much is it to extract the wisdom tooth, it was only RM500 and it increases every year by approximately a hundred.
But this time around, beginning of July the pain was almost unbearable. It was so pain that i could barely eat, was also causing minor headache. Without wasting time, i made a dental appointment on a Saturday morning to find that i had an inflammatory on my bottom right wisdom tooth with pass as well. Being swollen, dentist can’t do any extraction, but give you some antibiotics and ponstan to soothen the pain and inflammatory. BUT an appointment is made for the EXTRACTION SURGERY!!! “ten ten ten ten”
There i was still a little undecided about a week before, should i cancel my surgical appointment? but 80% of me was quite determine to do it, once and for all. But frankly, it was the 3 days or more MC that i could get that motivated me to go for it. There i was after a good breakfast (famous pork ball noodle) , arrived at 10am sharp, the nurse called me while i was downstairs, asking me if i will be coming? (cos i cancel the previous appointment before) Go in, Doctor wasn’t in yet, i am the first patient for the day, nurses preparing and i’m given 6 pills to swallow immediately!! (those who know me well enough, knows how hard it will be for me to swallow pills)
Pills, pills, pills
The Hot Seat
Another surgical room
The nurses preparing...
Scary, fearful me...
So after about 8-10mins doctor came to greeted me while i was on the hot seat and he take a look at my x-rays and then proceed with injecting the local anaesthetic into my gums for a bout 10 seconds with a few pokes, there was hardly any pain of the needle but in less than 30 seconds i am beginning to feel numb. The doctor say is normal, you will feel numb on your gums, tongue, and lips. Indeed! Got no control with half side of my mouth and drooled while having my mouth rinse. Doctor needed a clearer view of my tooth, so wanted to do another X-ray, he took something round and yellow plastic frame, with round red cardboard, tried to put into the right side of my mouth and it touch somewhere near my tonsils i immediately fought back as i wanted to vomit!!! Gosh, it was bad enough, cos when you vomit, tears come. So doctor say “Don’t worry, don’t cry, i was just sensitive, cos he thought with the local anaesthetic i won’t be able to feel it.
Alright, since we can’t do the x-ray, we Proceed with the surgery without wasting too much time! Dentist came with his drilling tools, straight into my mouth, my mouth open wide and Nadia place the sucker in it. Once the drilling gets into my teeth, a strange smell came. (something like a burning smells, as if is burning the grill!) and doctor changes his tool to something else, i was too nervous, he keep asking me to relax and open my mouth. Don’t open and try to close. (guess i was so stiff!) I was imagining what’s going on inside, but that does not help, as you don’t know whether you should swallow, But I Know I CAN’T freaking swallow!! So i divert my thoughts to something else and close my eyes, i thought of relaxation, yoga, and I prayed, calling upon the name of Jesus. Because my life now is in the dentist’s hands! Anything goes wrong, i might need to go for further surgeries, like plastic surgery?? damn…this is scary enough, so i need to co-operate with the dentist.
As the surgery move along, 2 pieces of my tooth came out, guess this time around is for the root, and the root of my tooth grew sideways, the tip against the jaw bone but thank God not joint! So again, the drilling laser came about, with the strange smell. By then my legs were crossed, pulling each other’s toes and went up in the air a little! The dentist last tried to pull the root out, but was having difficulty. He needed to drill further and tried pulling another time, i can feel the pressure as if using a spoon and scraping it out! “pak! pak!” those were the exact sound, and again “pak” then he pulls using a tweezer, i felt as if he’s pulling out a screw/nail from my gums. Damn it was hard stuck inside! Phew, it was finally out! Then there is still something, but this time around i felt some pain, i voice out and show some sign twice so that doctor knows and right where he touches it i say yes, it was my tissue, he injected further local anaesthetic 
and finally took the last piece out. The whole extracting procedure took about 45 mins as the dentist told me to let me know how fast it is done but to me it felt like is a one-day surgery! He took a few photo to show me, now let me show you.
Big, big hole
A clearer one, my whole teeth is gone!
After all that, now the stitching, thought it was still quite bloody….it is now time to close it all up so that my gums could be heal and have all that bleeding stop. Gosh…and the stitching had some hiccup, due to the “spanner” can’t whole the stitch very well and doctor was upset, because i believe it was a new one after his renovation done. I imagine, doctor also need to know how to do some sewing, hehe, it was not painful but there were strangely some phlegm now developed between my throat and my nose, and so, how? i was thinking it gona be done soon and i can rinse my mouth, but no leh!! So divert your mind and attention somewhere again!! haha and it disappeared, i believe the whole surgery took about an hour to an hour and a half. After completion of stitching, doctor took a few photos to show me and i rinse my mouth after that, but surprisingly there were not much blood in the water i spitted out, guess it was all sucked up! Here is the stitched up wound And i’m all set to go! haha!! YAY! Finally, its over!! Though i still feel numb, and my lips were freaking dry.
Neat & Beautifully stitched! 
No more hole!
Doctor’s advise: Drink cold ice water, preferably an ice inside the mouth, then towel wrap with ice on the outside of the right cheek, no hot food, eat only soft food. See him again tomorrow.
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