Notee felt a little weird after I knocked it again while brushing today -.-. For a moment, I thought it is leaving me forever, but luckily it is still intact to remind me that I haven’t blogged about it. Notee (pronounced like ‘naughty’) is an adult tooth now attaching soul-lessly (but hopefully firmly) to my gum. Decided to name it after reading Lardee and ickle.

Have been wanting to blog about my teethache incident but now I couldn’t remember much of the details after the much information loaded attachment. In any case, my whole set of teeth was in this excruciating pain on a particular day after eating N bazhangs the day before, inhaling a gust of cold air on a lrt, which gave my sensitive teeth some torturous moments and yes, as usual, knocked my front teeth while brushing. The pain was unbearable, especially so when I was not biting, ironically. Thought it was the heat but TCM didn’t help. In the end, I went to the dentist, unwillingly, for fear that I might follow dad’s teethsteps. The dentist didn’t know what’s wrong with me either because I couldn’t pin point to her the source of pain. It was just...the whole set of teeth >.<. So she put some substance on each of most of my teeth to check. Was supposed to feel pain if the tooth is normal. In the end, I couldn’t feel anything for Notee, or rather the pain was very much delayed. X-ray then revealed that the tooth nerve for Notee is dying due to some not-so-well-done filling I had a few years back. The dentist explained that sometimes the sensation for one tooth can be felt for the entire set of teeth. I bet this has something to do with the brain sensory areas learnt in bio psych but I cannot remember the term >.<

Anyway, the solution is…root canal therapy. Basically, it is the digging out of the dying nerve, cleaning it and filling it up, all in two stages. Had 2 injections of anesthetics for each stage and it really didn’t hurt (very much to my surprise after the horrible experience I had when I was 7)! Tried without anesthetic initially for my second stage cuz my tooth nerve is already removed but the pressure exerted by my tooth clamp is way too high for me to bear so I surrendered. Made me realized how strong our teeth could be!

Well, so now I have a soulless Notee residing in my mouth. So sad that I am always having issues with my teeth but dad says it couldn’t be helped much because I inherited it, uh-oh. Mum realized after watching news that she shouldn’t have fed me abnormally lots of milo using milk bottle last time, double uh-oh. And myself? I shouldn’t have avoided brushing my gums during younger days for fear I might brush my gums away >.<, more uh-oh. But what’s done cannot be undone. I shall take even better care of my teeth now! Especially Notee (a saint now since he is deprived of any worldly sensations >.<), which is the weakest now and might just crack if I bite on something too hard. Please hang in there forever, Notee!