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The Dinosaur Who Eats Like a Rabbit

12 Apr

This week I have been very disciplined to stick to the 16/8 diet with salad lunches for four days in a row. So much so, I felt like a dinosaur that eats like a rabbit though. Perhaps I should have had a herbivores Brontosaurus tattoo instead of the carnivorous T-Rex to depict the current situation. Heheh…

But it’s been a good and focused week. This morning’s weigh-in showed excellent results and I am pleased. A loss of 1.6lbs and I am now a mere 0.7lbs to reach my target goal! Woo hoo!!!

However, three nights ago, I had a chunk of my molar tooth chipped off whilst chewing on a mouthful of vegetables for dinner! Goodness gracious… And it made me wonder do real dinosaurs actually chip their tooth too over a meal? What more vegetables?! Hmm…

No salad for lunch today to take a break and I will see the dentist next week to fix up the molar.

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Toothless

7 Dec

It wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated. Sometimes the anticipation of the unknown is more fearful than the actual act itself. The dentist injected the gum area and within a short moment, numbness set in; he then extracted my pre-molar and that’s it. I am now toothless.

It wasn’t even painful.

It feels funny to have a gap and especially so when I gargle my mouth. Water keeps gushing through the side. And I simply cannot recall how it feels like when I had gaps in between my teeth during my younger days. It was dinosaur years ago.

So I will let the gum heal before the next step of action. Initially I am leaning towards getting an implant but now, having second thoughts about it. A girlfriend told me that having an implant done is far more painful than giving birth! Coming from someone who had gone through three childbirths, I think I ought to weigh her advise seriously.

Gulp.

She said the pain stays with you and if your tolerance level is not up there, the suffering is simply horrible. In fact, indescribable as horrible cannot even describe the pain.

In comparison, after enduring childbirth, you can see your child grow and the pain is worth it. But an implant? It’s just a tooth in the mouth.

Hmm. I may end up not doing anything and just let it be. Live with the gap and be toothless.

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D-Day

4 Dec

Today is the day! I will have my pre-molar tooth removed. Brr…

The appointment is scheduled for late afternoon. Brr…

Yes, I am having the shivers thinking about it. Brr…

Brr..

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A Goner

1 Dec

I couldn’t stand it anymore. My strickened pre-molar hurt when I played golf on Saturday and it throbbed on Sunday when the masseur patted me down on the back after the massage.

So I decided to see the dentist yesterday. Sure enough; just as I suspected something was not right after the persimmon episode, he confirmed that the tooth had really split down the middle; the bite on the persimmon seed did it in.

He even scrapped out the loose old filling to prove his point and I could see one half of the tooth wobbly when he probed it. It’s gone and I cannot salvage it anymore.

What choice do I have left but to have it extracted?

The big day will be this Friday and I will have a gap for a month before I decide the next step: a bridge or implant. 

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Ouch!

17 Nov

It was after dinner last night and I fancied some persimmon. Hubby was nice enough to cut the fruit for me and I was just innocently munching on it.

And the unexpected happened…

I must have mis-chewed and bit on the seed of the fruit for I felt a horrible crack. My pre-molar! Ouch.

Probing the tooth with my tongue, indeed I have traumatised the tooth again with the impact. Something feels misaligned. Sigh… I foresee the impending visit to the dentist may be much, much sooner.

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Oh No! Not Again

10 Nov

Just when I thought I was managing my strickened pre-molar well, the filling of my bottom left back molar fell off! The victim of the bread incident, remember? And I think I may have swallowed the filling. Super sigh…

I wasn’t even eating something hard, I had vermicelli noodles! Unbelievable. How to preserve the teeth so that nothing falls off, cracks and buckle under pressure? 

Maybe I shouldn’t eat… Hmm.

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To the Dentist, Part 4

30 Oct

So I managed to get an appointment with the dentist yesterday. The outcome was not good. The little gaping hole was actually not that big a hole but it’s the tooth that I should be worried.

The dentist did a quick patch up job and explained that the hairline crack splitting my tooth down its middle has grown! Oh dear. The next big impact may result in it to be pulled out. Gulp. Not good at all.

What have I been eating? I thought I have been very careful but he said it is no point to chew on one side because the hairline crack has been in existence for a while now. No matter how I eat, there will always be grinding and force even if I used only one side.

The day will come when the tooth finally gives in and splits. Hopefully not that soon. And when that day comes, I have two choices, either a bridge or an implant. Crowning is not an option with the weaken base. So with either one, it’s bye bye pre-molar, you’ve been good while you lasted. Sigh…

Last night I flossed my teeth and felt something sharp. A little chip… uh oh. Methinks at this point, that day will come sooner than later.

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To the Dentist, Part 3

27 Oct

My tooth’s filling fell out again over the weekend! The top right premolar. This time I am not sure how or what. There was no crunch sound nor any remnants of a tooth filling in the mouth.

I don’t think my Sunday morning breakfast of scrambled eggs on toast, followed by some crackers caused it. Something definitely came off because I can feel the irritating small gap with the tip of my tongue.

Sigh. Another visit to the dentist soon.

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To the Dentist, Part 2

4 Aug

So I went to the dentist. It was bad, the outcome of the visit. There is a hairline crack on my first premolar on the top right! And this is far worst than an outright chip or a dislodged filling. The little piece of cement that I initially thought was the filling that came out was actually my tooth.

The impact of the bite caused the gum to swell and there is a hairline crack right down the middle. Oh dear. How deep, he could not tell. So for now, he removed the old filling and patched it up. We see how I feel the next few days.

If the swelling subsides and no further pain, then the tooth is safe, meaning the crack is not that deep. But if the pain persists, we have no choice but to extract because with the crack right down the middle, the tooth is weakened and any patch job ain’t gonna help. It has been determined also that it is not a nerve problem that can be resolved to save the tooth.

The other tooth, the molar on the bottom left is okay. A simple patch job without any issues. I’d better be good and take my meds as prescribed and pray hard I don’t lose a tooth.

  

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To the Dentist

4 Aug

I need to see a dentist to fix a filling that fell out when I was munching on a club sandwich last week. This is the second incident of me chewing on bread that caused my tooth filling to come loose and this time, it hurts.

Thinking of visiting the dentist brought back memories of when I first went off to college and then developed a tooth problem. My wisdom tooth was acting up and it came to the point of no rescue. I had no choice but to visit the dentist to confirm this.

It had to be extracted. But at an exorbitant cost. Seven hundred dollars, I remember. Sounds very expensive then. I called home and discussed with Mom and Dad.

In the end, I flew home that summer, my flight ticket costing a hundred more than the tooth extraction cost and had my wisdom tooth pulled out at a fraction of it.

As for my current problem, I see the dentist later today.

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