I would like to begin today's sharing with my latest development of my current teeth condition. I know I have used extremely inappropriate dentistry gif as a cover photo for this piece, trust me it has absolutely nothing to do with my dentist as both of those girls are extremely professional and all of this happened in government owned medical facility, nothing ever like Horrible Bosses can happen there.
Since 2020 I had an accident when I accidentally bit on a piece of bone fragment whilst eating pork noodle, the front teeth has always been troubling me whenever I use my mouth. Things that we always underestimate is the bite force we use to chew food can be very hard. Normally we chew food with 5 - 15kg of bite force, sometimes uptown 80kg when required. Now imagine this again when you have a 2 pair of teeth misaligned, oftenly grinding each other's with 5-15kg impact multiple times.
One of the front teeth didn't last due to the severe misalignment. It all feels like when you trying to hammer a slanting nail with a strict lateral force on every bite. I have finally came to a decision to remove it instead of let the slanting nail dangling in my mouth. The extraction pain is absolutely unbearable, not to mention after the numbing drug passes its effectiveness. After that, the doctor show me my teeth, the damn thing is still in an absolutely good shape. The problem lies in my alveolar bone. I am suffering bone loss and the seats of my tooth are loosened over the years and I was not aware of it. I have osteoporosis!
Little did I know, the tooth extraction was only the beginning of a lifetime nightmare. My gums are not functioning well to hold my tooth anymore since they're receding. I am required to deep clean my teeth by removing gunk with the dental drill.
I am not exactly sure if it was due to my blood pressure high, or the agony of going to the consultation room that causes my blood pressure soar. I usually checked at home before proceeding to the medical facility and pass my blood pressure with flying colors, but soon as I reached the medical facility, my measurements gone haywire. There was several times the doctor refused to treat me as the numbing agent could drive blood pressure even higher and the risk of stroke could build up together.
Finally, after more than 1 year, more than 5 times suffering with the dental drill, yesterday was the "supposed" final drill. We won't know the answers yet, if I still required another drill or more, but this was the deepest drill. They use surgical knife to push the gums further so the dentist can further remove gunk that built up in my early age. A few of the larger tooth required to cut up to 7mm of the gums in order to clean the tooth. During that time, I got a total 6 injections of numbing agent. I don't get full anesthesia for my head due to my blood pressure. We've seen people get heart attack and or stroke during anesthetic procedure, my doc is trying to avoid that for me.
Despite the numbing agent, the pain is unbearable for certain part of the grind. The soar is another level when the vibration shaking my eyesight, the smell of the tooth fragment, the old gunk funky smell, and also the blood that splashes to the tongue. Despite the doctor is pretty, I guess I was too busy braising for the pain and blocking my throat from ingesting debris and blood.
Half way during the procedure, the doc stopped for awhile seeing my pain level. She said to me, pain is a sensation that our brain received signal from our sensors. It is exactly the same with happiness when you received a massage, because you did not "block" the feeling going to the brain. So, from now on, she want me to relax and "take in" the pain instead of holding my breathe and trying to "man" it up. The brain is a signal processor, I can choose to raise my blood pressure and suffer a stroke, or I can just sit back, try to relax and take in the pain.
That was entirely new for me, but after I took the advise, I did manage the ride it out. Now that I remember why doctor ask kids to relax whilst taking injection
