Teeth, 32 of them, well dont be upset if your count comes to a lesser number, nowadays, its a regular phenomenon with most of us.. Yes, cement, ceramic, and all those expensive metal filled cavities count too. Visit to a dentist now a days is as expensive as visitng a jewellery store. I put it as a 'Dentist Crown affair'(based on pierce brosnon' Thomas crown affair)...Well as i see, not much is different, a jewellery store sells gold and silver and likes, a dentist too sells gold and silver and likes, the stuff from jewellery store goes somewhere on our bodies to be flaunted, and so does the stuff from the dentist, flaunted with every smile, in a way it's good, u end up smiling more, afterall you paid for that 'golden tooth' why not smile and flaunt it!!
I remember when i had to make a career choice after my 12th grade(HSC examz) , I was in a dilemma whether to go for Pharmacy or Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), it was one of those hot summer noons when the intense heat had seeped in our Baroda residence and we ( dad and me) had an arguement over what profession is a better choice! It was then that we heard a knock n our door, I went up and opened it, usually salesman are expected around that part of the day, that day being exceptionally hot ( i still recall it was 45'c, that close to our 113' farenheit) and baroda's summer is intensely dry and dusty, this guy clothed in a white lab coat, a small bag in hand with the most deserving look in his eyes ( ever seen a puppy on a roadside, hungry since ages with droopy eyes and hopes of all the worlds calling out for help and a hug, with a shiny tear in the corner of the eyes), that is how he looked, and asked only 1 question,"Aapka daant tuta hai kya?'', do u have a broken teeth?, is what he meant! Now, I belong to the league of those people ( Yes we have a league of such people), who think that their teeth are made of pearls! You know, pearls in oyster, strong, beautiful, shiny, who never visited a dentist, not for the fear of one, but for believing that our teeth are the best, so for a person like me, it was a moment best described as a combination of shock, awe, plight, condolence...all these feelings in my heart and mind came out with a smirk on my face! In voluntarily, (I dont regret it though)His face litereally twitched as a strained elastic, and he gave me the angriest look ever as if i just challenged him his qualifications and snatched his degree from him and am tearing it down in tatters all while jumping and smiling in joy. I tried to reply, "No", wanted to accompany the word "Sorry" but .....hey, it's not my fault that I don't have a broken tooth! Tooth fairy has been nice to me! Its she who you got to sort your issues out with...Not me!
I walked back in and loved to stare at my dad's face, he was rooting for the profession of the guy at the door! And i was glad I did not take up BDS ( By no means I aim to hurt my fellow Dentist friends, but this is 1 incident that actually happened.)
A time does come, even for the people in the extraordinary league like me, the pearl teethed people, that our pearls become perils, gray shades start building up, afterall even the TAJ gets tarnished one day! Anyways, a visit to a dentist, once in a lifetime is an acheivement that everyone of us acheives!! Just another civil engineeer turned doctor is my defination of a dentist. Both use cement, both drill hard surfaces, both fill up dug pits and cavities. Its just a micronized set of tools that diffrentiates a dentist from a civil engineer working at a construction site. Its our mouth, the construction site for a dentist! Teeth of all, are one of the strongest part of our body, believed to surveive even when a person is totally torched!! Yes, even if u torch a person with ATF ( Aviation turbine fuel) teeth would survive, and a dentist kills these survivors in no time.
The standard protocols are annoying as such, they ask you to open your mouth and keep it open until a spider stops by and build a cob-web of a 'smiley' in your teeth! Seriously, they keep your mouth open for ages!! God gave us lips and the muscles around lips so that we keep our 'mouth pieces' closed, and violating the very creation, is a torture in itself. Next time i have an arguement with my girl friend, shes getting a ' free dentist visit' gift card from me!
The last time i visited the dentist, for a regualr check up that is, yes the day my pearly dreams were shattered, he has a look at my teeth, " everything looks pretty gud, except, 8 of the teeth here...and there...need to be re-filled." Excuse me, RE-filled! Is my teeth getting eaten up by other rival teeth?? What is a re-fill supposed to mean! He then drill 8 holes in my teeth, i would arfue any day on that, that those were really gud teeth, but thats how these civil engineered doctors are, drill first then fill that drilled hole! He would then charge you both for drilling and filling! Outrageously ridiculous!
Every visit is an adventure in itself, especially when its the wisdom tooth removal! What a nice name, but equally painful! Mouth is made to fit 32 teeth, why would you want to put in one more. Arent 32 enuf already! But No, this wisdom teeth has to come out, and it will make sure it comes out in a place that is most difficult to reach! The place that can be the most painful and the place where there is No way that you would expect such a thing to spring up! One fine morning you wake up and see the population growth increase by 1 in your mouth! The neighboring tooth is not going to make way for the new kid on the block, both cram in the same place, the mouth is not getting bigger, are we actually evovling by grwoing more teeth? No, they are just meant to create deep and sudden and throbbing sensations of pain Only! Their removal is a necessity and a story in itself! You should see a dentist' facial expressions when he/she spots a wisdom tooth, the smile runs from one ear to the other, "The tricky the place, the Bigger the moolah".....!
Teethy adventures are a memorable event in one's life! Living with it is the only option! Thers no escaping!
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