Trauma

Tucks!! It's so painful and the amount of blood! Be gentle, gentle PLEASE!!!

Thought that I should go for a dental visit before going overseas. It had been year since my last visit, which was done with great unwillingness due to persistent toothache.

I'd always have a phobia of visiting the dentist thanks to the regular dental checks by those ohhhh sssoooo GENTLE dental nurses back in school days. As such, I'd never visit any dentist unless it's absolutely necessary after I escape their clutches.

However, my previous visit a year ago somehow took away a little of the anxiety. Although it took me 3 visits to rectify my problem, the dentist had been rather gentle and careful, perhaps because I'd mentioned to him that I'm afraid of dental visits. Thus, this time round, I convinced myself that those horror visits of yester-years are all long gone.

Ha! Bad luck! Although it's by no fault of the dentist. He was just doing his job, trying to give my pearlies a thorough cleansing. I should have given him a "warning", then he might have been more prudent with his digging and patching etc.

Note: The 2 visits were done by different dentists.