It all started somewhat an year ago. It was my left canine. It was morning time. I was brushing my teeth. Rigorously. The old fashioned brush-brush-brush. I spit. Its white. But wait a minute. There’s something red BLOOD! Oh my god. I look it up in the mirror. My gum is bleeding. It’s all red. Then I notice something. There’s something white there. Boy it’s another teeth. Turns out my left canine is a milk tooth and the permanent one is trying to push it away saying “dude get off ! your job is done here. It’s my turn now.” But the milk tooth is like a stubborn little kid refusing to leave its place, kinda teasing the permanent tooth saying “I am not gonna leave.”
It’s been a year since that incident. Gum bleeding is almost a regular thing now. I decide that its time. I need to see a dentist before the situation gets worse. I ask Anwar, my brother-cum-friend, well lemme tell you something here. Boys are either strangers or brothers. There’s nothing in between. He said he knows a good dentist nearby. So one fine evening I leave my hostel accompanied with three of my ‘Brothers’ namely Anwar, Aman and Pandey. The dentist’s place looks good. It has glass walls. Fancy dentist chair. The assistant of dentist asks us to wait downstairs in the waiting area. Aman and Pandey decides to sip tea at a nearby stall. I and Anwar are waiting. Clicking selfies. I am unaware of the fact that these would be my last selfies with my pearly whites. The assistant calls us upstairs. I am in ‘the chair’ now. To be honest I was a little scared. The dentist looks familiar. Okay he is polite. But I think I have seen him somewhere before. God why does he look so familiar. Oh in goes the dentist equipments. Periodontal scaler, mouth mirror, periodontal probe. Now now I didn’t know these names and if you see my google search you’ll see dentist equipments. but do I know this guy? Well his name is Aarjav. I would have remembered such unique name. That’s when it hit me when he was taking the x-ray of my mouth. He looks like this famous youtuber. What’s his name…yeah … ashish chanchalani. That chubby cheeked guy. Though my dentist doesn’t have chubby cheeks. But still somehow he looks like him. Well the result is here. Mr. Ashish…I mean Aarjav says that my case is pretty complicated. But hey simple is no fun you know. I have canine imperfection….or something of that sort. So the bottom line is he will remove my milk tooth, fill the cavity and put braces on my teeth and with the help of braces will pull down my permanent tooth in its right place. Now after hearing all of this do you think I’m scared…no,no,no….not at all. I’m fucking terrified. And no, not because of the procedure but by the estimated expense which is around 30 thousand. Yeah you read it right. I called my parents and told them all about this. They are worried too now. Maybe more than I am.
So after a couple of days they travel 275 km to see me and get my treatment done. Now I know what you’re thinking. Can’t I get this done all by myself? Yes I can. But my parents think otherwise. Now I slept through the night alright but in the morning… Um I don’t know how to describe this.. I felt uneasy. The D-day is here. I’m again in the chair. Boy there’s a lot of stuff here. 2 pipes are in my mouth out of which one’s name I remember that is suction pipe. The process to numb my mouth has begun. The medicines taste really bad. I ask the dentist with the hand gestures. He stops. I sit-up. I spit. Gargle. Lay down again. The procedure continues. Half of my face is numb now. From my gums to my eyes. Left nostril is super numb and right nostril has no idea what’s happening. My dentist fills up the syringe. Okay let me make something clear here. I don’t have a phobia of injections but when someone’s gonna poke you in your mouth with a needle you kinda get scared. The syringe goes in….ah…aa…hey I just felt a tinge. I mean i felt almost nothing. Long Live Anesthesia ! Now there’s blood you know. My papa can’t see this so he decides to leave. Dentist asks my ma “Sir can’t bear the sight of blood?’’ Ma nods without moving her eyes from my mouth. In my mind I’m saying I’ll be fine ma. But hey I will be fine, right?
Now the dentist is holding the piler kind of thingy. I know he’s gonna pull my tooth out now. Au revoir toothy. You helped me to tear a lot of ketchup sachets. There he goes…1st try…ooh…I felt something. 2nd try…okay it is aching a little bit. 3rd try…aaaaah. Its out. My tooth is out. He puts it in the tray. And he puts a gauge in the empty space left by my left canine. My papa’s back now. The dentist is now advising me on what to eat and what not to eat. He said I can’t eat apple directly. I have to cut it in small pieces and then I can consume it. Haha… as if I ever eat apple. But dude the worst part is that I can’t eat pizza. I mean are you kidding me? But the best part of all of this advisory is that he asks me to eat ice-cream. Come on sing with me now…I-scream, u-scream, we all scream for Ice-cream. He tells me to come back in the evening to get my braces done.
It’s 4:45 pm. I leave for the dentist’s place. Again the same glass walls. They don’t seem that cool now. I see Mr. Aarjav again. I greet him with good evening sir. Though I originally said “gad inning sar”. Now don’t get me wrong my accent ain’t like that. This is because my mouth is aching a lot and I can’t speak properly. There’s another person here. He’s an orthodontist. He’s gonna put braces in my mouth. His name is Mr. Rajeev. I greet him the same way I greeted my dentist.
I’m again in the chair. Now same instruments are being used to check my mouth by a different person. He now starts putting braces on my teeth. One by one. Carefully. He sticks it on my tooth with the help of a white paste thing. Now he puts the wire in. He’s tightening the wire now which makes me remember how I used to tighten the wire of cooler in the summer. Man it feels weird. Then with the help of the scissor he cuts the wire and ties it on both side. I can’t stop myself from feeling these braces in my mouth with the help of my tongue. Everything is set now. Mr. Aarjav cracks a joke that now I have a metallic smile. I wanna give him a pity laugh but my mouth ain’t allowing it so I smile a little bit. But you know what I’m thinking right now, no not about my teeth, but about how in the past when they didn’t had anesthesia and other facilities how did they pull out people’s tooth? That must be very painful! Well this was my experience of getting braces. The dentist said it’ll take 15-18 months before they can be removed. Till then I’ll have metal in my mouth! Overall it was a fun experience
Aryan Gupta
It’s been a year since that incident. Gum bleeding is almost a regular thing now. I decide that its time. I need to see a dentist before the situation gets worse. I ask Anwar, my brother-cum-friend, well lemme tell you something here. Boys are either strangers or brothers. There’s nothing in between. He said he knows a good dentist nearby. So one fine evening I leave my hostel accompanied with three of my ‘Brothers’ namely Anwar, Aman and Pandey. The dentist’s place looks good. It has glass walls. Fancy dentist chair. The assistant of dentist asks us to wait downstairs in the waiting area. Aman and Pandey decides to sip tea at a nearby stall. I and Anwar are waiting. Clicking selfies. I am unaware of the fact that these would be my last selfies with my pearly whites. The assistant calls us upstairs. I am in ‘the chair’ now. To be honest I was a little scared. The dentist looks familiar. Okay he is polite. But I think I have seen him somewhere before. God why does he look so familiar. Oh in goes the dentist equipments. Periodontal scaler, mouth mirror, periodontal probe. Now now I didn’t know these names and if you see my google search you’ll see dentist equipments. but do I know this guy? Well his name is Aarjav. I would have remembered such unique name. That’s when it hit me when he was taking the x-ray of my mouth. He looks like this famous youtuber. What’s his name…yeah … ashish chanchalani. That chubby cheeked guy. Though my dentist doesn’t have chubby cheeks. But still somehow he looks like him. Well the result is here. Mr. Ashish…I mean Aarjav says that my case is pretty complicated. But hey simple is no fun you know. I have canine imperfection….or something of that sort. So the bottom line is he will remove my milk tooth, fill the cavity and put braces on my teeth and with the help of braces will pull down my permanent tooth in its right place. Now after hearing all of this do you think I’m scared…no,no,no….not at all. I’m fucking terrified. And no, not because of the procedure but by the estimated expense which is around 30 thousand. Yeah you read it right. I called my parents and told them all about this. They are worried too now. Maybe more than I am.
So after a couple of days they travel 275 km to see me and get my treatment done. Now I know what you’re thinking. Can’t I get this done all by myself? Yes I can. But my parents think otherwise. Now I slept through the night alright but in the morning… Um I don’t know how to describe this.. I felt uneasy. The D-day is here. I’m again in the chair. Boy there’s a lot of stuff here. 2 pipes are in my mouth out of which one’s name I remember that is suction pipe. The process to numb my mouth has begun. The medicines taste really bad. I ask the dentist with the hand gestures. He stops. I sit-up. I spit. Gargle. Lay down again. The procedure continues. Half of my face is numb now. From my gums to my eyes. Left nostril is super numb and right nostril has no idea what’s happening. My dentist fills up the syringe. Okay let me make something clear here. I don’t have a phobia of injections but when someone’s gonna poke you in your mouth with a needle you kinda get scared. The syringe goes in….ah…aa…hey I just felt a tinge. I mean i felt almost nothing. Long Live Anesthesia ! Now there’s blood you know. My papa can’t see this so he decides to leave. Dentist asks my ma “Sir can’t bear the sight of blood?’’ Ma nods without moving her eyes from my mouth. In my mind I’m saying I’ll be fine ma. But hey I will be fine, right?
Now the dentist is holding the piler kind of thingy. I know he’s gonna pull my tooth out now. Au revoir toothy. You helped me to tear a lot of ketchup sachets. There he goes…1st try…ooh…I felt something. 2nd try…okay it is aching a little bit. 3rd try…aaaaah. Its out. My tooth is out. He puts it in the tray. And he puts a gauge in the empty space left by my left canine. My papa’s back now. The dentist is now advising me on what to eat and what not to eat. He said I can’t eat apple directly. I have to cut it in small pieces and then I can consume it. Haha… as if I ever eat apple. But dude the worst part is that I can’t eat pizza. I mean are you kidding me? But the best part of all of this advisory is that he asks me to eat ice-cream. Come on sing with me now…I-scream, u-scream, we all scream for Ice-cream. He tells me to come back in the evening to get my braces done.
It’s 4:45 pm. I leave for the dentist’s place. Again the same glass walls. They don’t seem that cool now. I see Mr. Aarjav again. I greet him with good evening sir. Though I originally said “gad inning sar”. Now don’t get me wrong my accent ain’t like that. This is because my mouth is aching a lot and I can’t speak properly. There’s another person here. He’s an orthodontist. He’s gonna put braces in my mouth. His name is Mr. Rajeev. I greet him the same way I greeted my dentist.
I’m again in the chair. Now same instruments are being used to check my mouth by a different person. He now starts putting braces on my teeth. One by one. Carefully. He sticks it on my tooth with the help of a white paste thing. Now he puts the wire in. He’s tightening the wire now which makes me remember how I used to tighten the wire of cooler in the summer. Man it feels weird. Then with the help of the scissor he cuts the wire and ties it on both side. I can’t stop myself from feeling these braces in my mouth with the help of my tongue. Everything is set now. Mr. Aarjav cracks a joke that now I have a metallic smile. I wanna give him a pity laugh but my mouth ain’t allowing it so I smile a little bit. But you know what I’m thinking right now, no not about my teeth, but about how in the past when they didn’t had anesthesia and other facilities how did they pull out people’s tooth? That must be very painful! Well this was my experience of getting braces. The dentist said it’ll take 15-18 months before they can be removed. Till then I’ll have metal in my mouth! Overall it was a fun experience
Aryan Gupta
Nice experience
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