for want of a tooth..
my wisdom was lost. Or will be or may be. So kindly excuse me for my blabbering hence forth. The ordeal which started a couple of months back, i.e. the recurring headaches which led me to undergo various medical tests like the MRI and the EEG and which was finally traced back to the teeny weeny tooth at the far end of my mouth, would hopefully end now. I always used to feel a tingling pain in my left lower jaw when I used to get headaches. I attributed it to the headaches. Didn't think it could be the other way round. After procrastinating my visit to the dentist for about a month, I finally paid a visit a couple of weeks back. The examination quickly led to the conclusion "Your wisdom tooth is in a state of decay and has to be extracted". Sounded simple. So I took the appointment the next day notwithstanding the fact that I was extracting a tooth after close to 20 years. I thought I could get away with using medicines or any nonsurgical/extraction methods but the advice from the prosthodontist was to get rid of the redundant part of my body lest it leads to further complications later.
What do I do after coming back from the visit? Promptly google 'wisdom tooth extraction' and read the oh-it-so-simple stories to horror stories about the whole process. I braced myself for the 'surgery' the next day only to get it postponed. The surgeon was a bit hesitant on operating on someone who clocked a 160/90 on one fine bright sunny day a couple of months back. Taking me to be an hypertensive person, he advised me to get my BP checked one more time and also product a fitness certificate. I had a hard time explaining that the spike was a temporary one and my BP has been normal since. So after two weeks of monitoring my BP, I finally went to get the damn thing extracted today. I was not helped by the fact that a friend of mine , who happens to be a doctor, scared the crap out of me by giving me all the gory details about the anatomy of a tooth. Apparently it is connected to a nerve cell and complications can creep in if the nerve cell is affected during the extraction.
The procedure went well, but a a tad longer for the doctor's taste. Apparently he had trouble extracting the obstinate tooth because the roots were quite strong. I could see the expressions and sweat on the doctor's face as he used a plethora of surgical instruments including what looked a driller to me !!. Another late discovery during the course of the procedure was that the nerves were pretty close to my tooth which slowed down the doctor's progress. After some struggle, the tooth was finally plucked out. He wiped off the sweat and remarked 'Phew that was one stubborn thing'. He complimented me by saying that not many can endure the stuff that was done on me today and that I was one of the strongest male patients he had come across !!! Now I don't know if this 'praise' is reserved for all this patients:)
No pain yet, though it has been a good 7 hours since I was given the local anesthesia. I hope it isn't bad. Suddenly I have this craving for hot spicy food which the dentist advised against!!. Reminds me of the dialog from the movie 'The Hangover'. He is not a doctor, he is a dentist!!!
With all the medical checkups I have been undergoing in the past few months, a friend remarked 'Like a car which undergoes routine maintenance checks before its sold, I am also going through the same process before my marriage' :)
What do I do after coming back from the visit? Promptly google 'wisdom tooth extraction' and read the oh-it-so-simple stories to horror stories about the whole process. I braced myself for the 'surgery' the next day only to get it postponed. The surgeon was a bit hesitant on operating on someone who clocked a 160/90 on one fine bright sunny day a couple of months back. Taking me to be an hypertensive person, he advised me to get my BP checked one more time and also product a fitness certificate. I had a hard time explaining that the spike was a temporary one and my BP has been normal since. So after two weeks of monitoring my BP, I finally went to get the damn thing extracted today. I was not helped by the fact that a friend of mine , who happens to be a doctor, scared the crap out of me by giving me all the gory details about the anatomy of a tooth. Apparently it is connected to a nerve cell and complications can creep in if the nerve cell is affected during the extraction.
The procedure went well, but a a tad longer for the doctor's taste. Apparently he had trouble extracting the obstinate tooth because the roots were quite strong. I could see the expressions and sweat on the doctor's face as he used a plethora of surgical instruments including what looked a driller to me !!. Another late discovery during the course of the procedure was that the nerves were pretty close to my tooth which slowed down the doctor's progress. After some struggle, the tooth was finally plucked out. He wiped off the sweat and remarked 'Phew that was one stubborn thing'. He complimented me by saying that not many can endure the stuff that was done on me today and that I was one of the strongest male patients he had come across !!! Now I don't know if this 'praise' is reserved for all this patients:)
No pain yet, though it has been a good 7 hours since I was given the local anesthesia. I hope it isn't bad. Suddenly I have this craving for hot spicy food which the dentist advised against!!. Reminds me of the dialog from the movie 'The Hangover'. He is not a doctor, he is a dentist!!!
With all the medical checkups I have been undergoing in the past few months, a friend remarked 'Like a car which undergoes routine maintenance checks before its sold, I am also going through the same process before my marriage' :)
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