Oct

9

My Dentist and me~

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Yesterday was Dentist-Day again which means my 12th visit to the dentist. I can’t believe that it marks 1 year of me wearing this ugly braces but it makes my teeth prettily straightened now!!! But I am not sure how long I have to wear them as I guess my dentist have no idea as well. Duh..

My dentist, a family man from Hatyai is a rather funny guy, full of nonsense and is in his thirties I guess. He looks younger without his mask but he wears it all the time. He likes to talk to me although it is very hard for me to answer him with my mouth open all the time!

His wife helps him in the clinic sometimes and she is a very fierce-looking-lady who frown all the time! But yesterday, amazingly, she smiled at me, probably she had finally recognise me or in a very good mood~

As usual, he talked to me non-stop while ‘servicing’ my teeth and me holding a mirror to look and examine what he was doing to my teeth. And yesterday our conversation went like this (combination of Hokkien and English) :

Dentist : So, where are you going for the upcoming Raya?
Me       : No where. Are you going back to your hometown, Hat-Yai?
Dentist : Yes, going back to Hap-Cai. You still pronounce it as Hat-Yai!
Me       : It spells H-A-T-Y-A-I.
Dentist : Yes, but the correct pronunciation is HapCai.
Me       : Ohh ok. I’ve been there once, a lot of things to buy.
Dentist : You did? How did you go there?
Me       : I took Air Asia flight.
Dentist : You always fly by Air Asia?
Me       : A few times. Cheap what?
Dentist : But aren’t you scared of flying?
Me       : What to be scared of? You know what, more people are scared of dentist than flying!
Dentist : …. *stop for a few seconds* …. How could it be!
Me       : It is true!
Dentist : There’s nothing to be scared of dentist. *start to drill my teeth to clean off the excess cement, the sound was like filling the teeth!!!*
Me       : This sound is scary..!
Dentist : But this sounds like melody to me~
Me       : ….. *speechless* 

Yesterday, the service took more than 45 minutes as there was extra stuff he gotta fix on my teeth. Before we went off, he found out that I’ll be going to Bangkok at the end of the month. 

 

Dentist : Why are you going to Bangkok?
Me       : Shopping!
Dentist : There are so many riots there. So unpeaceful.
Me       : My friends went and came back safely.
Dentist : Went in one piece and came back in one piece?
Me       : Yeah exactly. If you don’t see me next month, you’ll know what happen to me. *grin*
Dentist : ….  =|  *bewildered look*

Aug

24

Flossing..

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Yesterday night I taught my houssy, Yit, how to floss her teeth. Flossing is one of my many routines every night, on top of normal brushing, brushing using interdental brush and also gargling using mouth wash. Yeap, I took many minutes cleaning my teeth every night, not am certainly not a freak. Just that it is not easy to keep braced teeth cleaned. 

Ok, back to Yit. It was her first time using the floss and she was rather thrilled (or should I use amazed) to find out that there was a lot of hidden leftover in between her teeth after she brushed it. She told me she felt her teeth were so clean and smooth after flossing!

And she couldn’t stop repeating that she would get her own floss the next day and will start to floss daily! 

So, do you floss? 

Click on the picture to view why you have to floss and how to floss correctly.