Say cheeze!

It was a pretty great day yesterday. Considering that I finally did my temporary crown for my tooth in the afternoon. So now, i can smile confidently without being self-conscious.

My fren had insisted that my broken tooth wasnt obvious. But no matter what, I always suspect that others would stare and laugh at my chipped tooth. In fact , there is always a part of me who wanted to tell and explain to everyone how I fell and broke my teeth- just to earn some symphathy. But ultimately, I didnt do it. Apparently, most who know about it found my mishap to be quite ridiculous. In fact, one of my friends laughed at it. (Yeah, u, vanessa, even though u may not be reading this post. But I will certainly send u this blog link and make sure u read this post next time).

Having went through all the injections and drilling of teeth, I have really learnt my lesson painfully. I now pay 101% attention to caring for my teeth and I am sure my dentists will be glad to hear this. Perhaps one good thing that comes out of this matter is that I am going to have a whiter and nicer permanent tooth soon.

Plus, I need to thank my Endodontist, Dr Andy Lim and Prosthodontist, Dr Quek, both from National Dental Centre. They are really the nicest dentists, very professional, yet friendly and gentle during treatment. To add on, Dr Toh fr Crown dental has been pretty good too. I sought treatment fr him the day that I broke my teeth. He was friendly and was pretty honest with my condition. The only bad thing was that the clinic only accept cash and the dental fees are sky high. (which prompts me to jokingly tell my frens that I shd perhaps find a dentist as boyfriend. But I am still receptive to this idea. So, anyone who has potential one in this category, pls update me. haaaaa)

P.S. Another happy stuff that is worth mentioning is that I finally collected my internship cert yesterday and I got a Gold Award. Think I need to really thank David for his generousity in the evaluation. Thanks David!!

A bad beginning

I really need to apologise to myself- for not taking good care of myself. So I hope my body will recover soon- or rather, my mouth.

This whole ridiculous episode happened on Sunday morning. I was awaken by the alarm on my phone- of which I set it the night before. I wanted to get up earlier than usual to accompany my mom to the mkt. It is well- the 7th day of lunar new year, being the birthday of everyone. I didnt know why and how it happened, but it did. All in the split of maybe one second. I was down on the floor without me realising it. I tripped and fell on the hard tiles in my room. I guessed I wasnt fully awake enough to reach to my computer table to silent the alarm.

It was then I realised that I didnt just trip and fall. My mouth hit the floor hard and I broke my teeth. Yeah, there was blood too. Scared the hell out of me. I cut my lower lips. And they are bruised and looked as though I was given a punch on the lips. Only 1 front (read FRONT) tooth was smashed and broke into half. I thought it was lucky that I didnt smash my two front teeth. Until later.

My mom was totally freaked out by me. She wasnt able to completely get the picture as I stormed out of my room, into the kitchen to tell her that I fell down and broke my teeth and cut my lips. She didnt understand how it happened. In fact, my whole family didnt understand how this thing could happen. Well, it is ok, cos I didnt understand how I can get into this mess as well. Stupid me.

Becos of the not-so-little blood that I lost, I got a little bit of dizzy and faint. This usually happens when I didnt have enough sugar in my body. By this time, my mom is totally worried. After some rest, I got better. Afterwhich, my mom accompanied me to the doctor- I wasnt sure which doctor to see. A dentist or GP. But I eventually figured out that a dentist would be more apt in this case.

When the dentist looked at me, his reaction was something like.."Wah... quite serious"... Damned. I didnt want to hear this. At first I was worried abt my broken tooth but he advised that it wasnt the main issue. The more problematic part is that I hurt my two front teeth. The fact that they didnt fall off didnt mean that they werent hurt the most. the dentist performed an X-ray and he says that there is 90% chance that the root broke. So, what he can do now is to just splint up the two front teeth and go for review 2 weeks later. In other words, there isnt much he can do now. He also advised that root canal for the 3 teeth are inevitable. Now, the physical pain of the accident and injections werent the worst- the "heart" pain from the bill is more tormenting. The bill came at $250 for less than an hr of consultation and treatment.

And how am i gg to go for interview on wed? #%$#%
I hope my lips will get better and less obvious on wed. Cross my finger.

By the way, friends, I cant bite properly for now. So most likely have to put off any dinner outings for later time. Not until I get a new set of front teeth. I can still mit up for soft food though, if u dun mind.

Now I need to find out how much the root canal are going to cost me.