27th October 2013

Good evening!
Went to the clinic in the afternoon on the 25th to get 4 of my teeth extracted. The procedure took less than 10 mins. He gave me 4 jabs of anesthesia and within a half a minute I felt my whole lip and gum numbed. It felt like my lips were swollen 'cause I could feel it at all. After a few twisting and turning, he extracted them without me feeling a thing. It kind of bled like crazy after that and he suggested that I wear a mask out of his clinic. It took around 2 hours for the anesthesia to wear off and I didn't take any of the prescribed paracetamols. The heavy bleeding continued for almost the entire day probably because I went to rinse my mouth when I was told not to do so. I went to google for solutions to stop the bleeding and attempted on the moisten tea bag. Apparently I was suppose to moisten a tea bag and bite on it gently for 45mins and this chemical named Tannin was suppose to help to stop the bleeding. At the end of 45 mins I wasn't sure if it helped to stop the bleeding because the entire tea bag was soaked with my blood. The bleeding persisted till the very next day, right up till today. It finally stopped completely. Thank God! I thought I was gonna bleed to death or something. So, moral of the story is NEVER RINSE YOUR MOUTH AND FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS CLOSELY. Please be informed that the neighboring teeth will feel sore after the anesthesia wears off especially when you attempt to bite/chew your food.

I am looking forward to tomorrow 'cause I am finally going to have the brackets on! I went to the supermarket earlier and got hell loads of dental stuffs to prepare myself for the braces.
Shall let the visuals do the talking now.

 1. Picture taken before the extraction.

2. Picture taken after extraction, posing with my teeth.

 3. Picture taken while Dr Hoh jabs the anesthesia.

 4. Picture taken in an attempt to stop the bleeding using Tea Bag. (Apparently it didn't work for me)

5. Here's what I got based on recommendation by a friend of mine who had his braces removed a year back.

And here's a Video taken during the extraction!

Till next time!

8th October 2013

Today marks my first consultation with the  Dr Ho Voon Choong, the Dental Surgeon at Sembawang Dental Surgery located at Blk 406 #01-824 Sembawang Drive Singapore 750406. In today's visit, Dr Ho takes a look at my oral cavity and inspects my teeth before telling me that we will be going ahead with the braces. To my surprise, he actually told me that straightening my teeth is pretty easy given the fact that my teeth looks extremely crooked in my opinion. He moved on to tell me that I will need 2 fillings done because they are "catching" onto his instrument and they can be done any time. He also told me that I will need 4 extractions done, 2 on the upper set and 2 on the lower set but before he proceeds on to do the extractions, I will need to get an x-ray done. I was very excited about getting everything settled in the shortest possible time before I resume school next week but Dr Ho is a very busy man. Apparently getting your extractions and braces done on the same day is not possible in view of the bloody situation happening inside your oral cavity so I will need to make 2 appointments to get both things done. Getting the brackets on will take about an hour but like I mentioned earlier, Dr Ho is a very busy man and it is not easy to get him to free up one hour of his time just to put my brackets on. I wouldn't advise getting extractions done way beforehand unless you are totally cool with the fact that you will be going around with 4 missing teeth. So I picked 25th October for the extraction and 28th October for the braces because 28th is the earliest date Dr Ho is able to free up 1 hour of his time for the brackets and oh yes, I forgot to mention that cleaning will be done as well!
Below are two photos of how my teeth looks like when I smile.

/edit. 12.10.2013


I went to get my x-ray done a few days back and here is how my x-ray looks like!

Till next time!