I am 99.999999% sure that I have an impacted wisdom tooth at the lower left side of my mouth. It has been hurting like a bitch for close to a week now and my gums have gone swollen (feels like it). During this period, I've learned a fair few bits about wisdom teeth and the different types of surgery for it - you can either be put to sleep or the normal way, extract it out while having anesthetic injected into your gums. Either way, it grossed the fuck out of me. Lots of different thoughts flew in my mind in all direction. Lets just say my pain threshold isn't that great. To top it off, I currently have a throat that is as sore as it could have been for the past 20 years of my life. Pretty suspicious that it is infected by my wisdom tooth bacteria.
1. How do I even brush my teeth with stitches in my mouth?
2. How am I going to eat?
3. Am I going to be swollen for days?
4. I have plans!!! How am I going to go out and see people?
5. Very less likely but, will I die?
6. Again very less likely, will I get some crazy infection from the surgery? (because I've read that there's a possibility that the blood won't stop oozing out, causing infection. Or even, caused by infection.)
7. Will it be painful after the anesthetic has worn off?
8. KILL ME ALREADY.
Sorry, I definitely sound like a pussy right now but seriously, I am beyond terrified. I just hope my mouth can stay numb until the wound has healed but no, not gonna happen. It would have probably helped if I didn't went ahead and research about wisdom tooth surgeries. But in my defense, I had to in order to find the right dental to go to. (guess what, I end up going to none of the dental clinics that I've researched on. LOL)
There are people who haven't felt any pain after the surgery and could even go out and party the next day. I think they are just lucky that their pain threshold is too damn high, or they do not have an impacted wisdom tooth. Either way, I always expect the worst for myself. (I have even been taking selfies of my wisdom tooth with flash because it's not clear in the mirror) GUESS WHAT, I PUT MY PHONE INTO MY MOUTH JUST TO TAKE THE PICTURE. LOL I'm so gross but I couldn't help it.
Anyway, I decided to stop being a pussy and booked an appointment at a Q & M dental clinic. Let's hope all goes well. I have expected the costs to be very high because upon researching, I've found the price to be really normal (>$500). Obviously I'm not gonna pay for that amount myself because hello, I'm not even working. So, thick skinned me went to ask for $$ from my dad. Very very annoyingly, I got told off. He said because I don't eat proper meals, all I eat is biscuits and other thing other than proper meals (aka rice + vege). I wanted so much to scream at him that wisdom tooth is not something that can be avoided. Different people have different teeth fate. Well, unlucky me, mine decided to be an impacted wisdom tooth rather than a tooth that grows out perfectly fine. Truth to be told, every single human (I presume) has 4 wisdom teeth. Some have 8 but the norm is 4. Some may need all 4 extracted, some may not, depending on how they have grown out.
Anyway, dad went on and gave me $100 for the tooth extraction which I then told him it wasn't enough. He continued to flare up and said how expensive can it get when it's just tooth extraction. Clearly he doesn't know what wisdom teeth needed. Enough that my dad is not understanding enough, even my mum (who has far more dental problems than my dad) didn't understood the high cost expected for wisdom tooth extraction. They keep saying that I found the wrong dentist and some rubbish about me being spendthrift came out. Really, all I wanted to do was stitch up their mouths. I'm sorry that I am completely brutal but seriously they need to stop doubting me.
Obviously I would want to save cost as much as possible while at the same time feeling secured. It's my mouth I'm talking about here, I am a fucking pussy don't mind me. It feels like they should be grateful that I haven't went on and find a specialist at Orchard or something.
My point here, I actually teared up hearing their words. It feels like to them, I'm this irresponsible kid and all I know is waste money on unnecessary stuff. It hurts. But thinking that I actually teared up hearing those words make me question myself - why did I even cry? Am I allowed to feel upset to this point just hearing those words? Feels like a total cry baby.
It would have helped if my parents were more understanding. Well, guess I would be going through this alone.
