slosh down the pepper!

IMPACTED!

Wisdom tooth... horizontal eruption... BIG hole... nerve treatment... crown... left and right side...

Those few words will be strung together to form an impactful statement describing my impacted tooth (maybe teeth) which is (are) due to create an impact on my not-that-big pocket!

My wisdom tooth juts out in a horizontal position, knocking into its neighbouring molar (call it A). Molar A & adjacent Molar B have not been the good kids they used to be for almost a month - can't bite/chew since they pained at the slightest contact with cold/too hot/too hard stuffs. The culprit is Wisdom, as expected by the dentist and his dear helper. It houses a cavity ("big hole" Mr Dentist termed it) that is somewhat visible to the naked eye as a black little spot. Molar A was duely affected and now has a even bigger hole where the nerves are even exposed! Molar B, luckily is still safe from harm.

Mr Dentist wanted to refer me to a Mount E specialist dealing with endodontics (root canal treatment) as he accorded the complexity of such procedures to be better performed by another of the same profession who deals with it on a much higher frequency than he does. Yet sadly, the Specialist will only remove the nerves which meant I gotta do up the crown on a separate occassion if I were to incur a smaller loss.

Of course, he advised that Molar A can always be extracted should I not be willing to go for nerve treatment. What an alternative! I am by far only a quarter century old!

So far, I have been focusing on the right side of my mouth. I am more or less convinced now that my left side is experiencing the same problem as its counterpart right. Why? I have been poking at the gap between the Wisdom and the molar next to it, trying to remove foods stuck in between and it hurt badly when i move into one particular spot near the molar! Shucks! Must be another big cavity.

Wisdom Tooth Surgery - $400
Nerve Treatment (root canal) - close to a $1000
Crown - $300
TOTAL = $1700 x 2 = $3400 for both the left and right sides

I foresee another BIG CAVITY coming...

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Few most consoling things I have heard today:

"You looked young!" - compliment from Mrs Chan.
"Still acceptable" - remark from Dr Chan, re my receding gums.

posted by slingwoof @ 4/20/2006 09:59:00 PM