Saturday, November 20, 2010

Unsuccessful root canal

It has been exactly 2 weeks from now and my right lower molar is still having a sense of irritation if I chew food with it. What damn hell was that I was made a guinea pig to one of the Iranian Doctor who is doing his Practising for his Master Degree in one of the Uni here in Malaysia being attached to the Poly Dental Clinic. The reason why I went to see him initially was that 2 months back I had an attack of acute pain both lower and upper molar and until it was not distinguishable where the pain came from that lasted for about 10 days. (could be only viral attack ) When I called the Dental Doctor who attended to my boy's braces, the receptionist did not allow me to consult him and I was very furious, thus ended up seeing the said doctor in the Poly Clinic. He did an x-ray for me and told me to get an appointed time to do the root canal and prescribed me some painkillers and the antibiotics before the next appointment done 2 weeks back.

Getting seated on the dental chair was always some kind of nervous feeling for me. And when seeing all those needles, root canal files ...... etc.... I had to say a quick prayer to God to keep me calm and strong...... But instead I should had told the Doctor that I needed to call off the appointment and now I need not have to endure to such unbearable pain and irritant which been done to the molar. Being too honest, I told the doctor that my crowned molar was done in 1983, and that doctor even retaliated : 1983 until now! It was platinum crowned and with a very fair tooth which cost me at that time of RM400 done in Sibu. ( How the RM has appreciated ?.. and now I only realised it) I even asked him whether he got the confidence to drill into my crowned molar for the root canal. And I heard the nurse also asked the same question.....

Looked like I could not fight destiny being his Guinea Pig (very sure he is Muslim )and was I the first to be one..... might be .. n I did not dig into his past records.......At the very beginning of the drilling, I felt a tiny little bit of pain, but it quickly went away. The drilling sound was noisy as if he was drilling a cement wall.... Already looked like when he injected the needle of local anesthesia to numb the area near the tooth, I felt a surge of pain on my tongue.... did he carelessly injected on the tongue?..... My left side of the mouth was so numbed and could not talk but only with my hand gestures of defiance.......Yet indeed after so many attempts using the canal files and changing the different sizes and lengths.... with so many drillings performed on my molar..... one could imagine how tired I had to open my mouth wide for such operation done. In addition to one hand needed to hold the nozzle to suck the saliva from the mouth......witnessing such extremes unkind and irresponsible working attitude of the nurses there talking on the handphones ,the sms and talking among other staffs where they would go that evening already annoyed me which made me throwing away the nozzle when the plastic head disengaged from it. Good motive done to get her attention!

Then came the doctor, asking me for another x-ray .... with all those clumsy stuff in the mouth still need to go out to another room vis the public area for the x-ray. That lazy nurse used such a big film inserting into my little mouth for the x-ray....ooooouch.... I vomited... another time... vomited... so I requested for a smaller film and was told no such in stock..... See how a Government clinic is lacking all such stocks when we are contributors to the income tax annually....Where have all those medical funds allocated for the citizens ?..... Does our Health Minister or anybody in his Ministry come to Sarawak to check?.... Is our PM aware of the hospital here? Or is the 100-storey building more significance an image for Malaysia or the citizens benefits count? Answer it for yourself, readers!... Do not tell me it is free... it is not free... I did pay and being a guniea pig only......An Iranian endodontist is doing his practising for his Master Degree Program and I was just the Opportunist to be his best client........or a parcel to his practising tools.........Real bad omen for me....... and another uphold in image for the education in Malaysia Uni "Boleh"......in esp in dentistry......

Unbearable to sustain such big piece of film inserting into my mouth, I just told the nurse that I did not want to get another x-ray and asked the doctor to clean and fill up my molar with my blur... blur.... speech...
I knew the doctor face turned black like Justice Bao in the Mandarin 6 pm series. I did not care after all I lost half of my crowned tooth and some platinum intact to it, and would rather succumb to the pain of the damnn unnessary drilling.... learned of a great lesson to go to the Government Poly Clinic.......The said nurse even dare to tell me that she was sure I will not go to the clinic again but come for any medication incase I needed it. I told her I would not go there again after such experience....... After requesting for a mirror to look into my molar I felt so painful with a big patch of different color in the middle of the molar..... hence I just walked off hastily without anything said.

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