Just came back with my mom from the dentist. She has been complaining of teeth pain and gum woes intermintently for the past 6 months, but hasn't been doing anything about it. Finally, the pain got so bad last night (giving her headaches) that she decided to go see the dentist. I can understand her fewar of seeing the dentist - no fun sitting on the dentist's chair, being drilled with big scary equipment in your mouth.
But she had to go through the procedure, in order to get her teeth checked out. She asked one of us to accompny her, because she was scared. So I had to drag my tail out and go with her to the dentist. No fun leh, watching your mum being subjected to the dentist. Thank God the dentist is an experienced fella, and he was patient and kind. Halfway through the extraction, the tooth broke into two. Thankfully, he was still able to extract the remaining half of the broken-off tooth... well, it's all over now. My mom can now go about nagging wothout tooth pain. 
Last night was talking with my two friends on the LRT ride to church. One of them just went through a minor sugery operations, to remove his wisdom tooth. Had 3-4 days' MC, but still had to go back to work yesterday. He was saying at least the pain was not that bad already, compared to the initial day when the tooth was freshly extracted. But he he still experienced pain when he takes his ffod at meal times. The other friend also has the same problem with his wisdom tooth. Think this other friend also apporaching the edge liao; he's booking an appointment with his dentist to extract his wisdom tooth.
Me, I haven't been to the dentist in a while. Last time i checked my teeth out was about a year ago. The painful memories still linger. oh, it's nice to have them fresh lingering feeling, of getting all the built up tartar removed from your teeth, and to be able to feel the spaces in between your teeth again. But even a simple scaling will set me back by at ealst $60. Maybe after I find a job la.
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