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Of ‘wisdom’ and ‘tooth’

‘I can’t believe it’ – staring at x-ray, I blurted out. 

Now I consider myself quite a sane person, as far as I remember I never got F grade in academia life, never worked on any rocket-science thing in professional life but I guess didn’t do bad in whatever programming/managing jobs I was required to do and I do just okay in IQ tests. This much sanity, wisdom and intellect is enough for common person like me, isn’t it! But still…. You need to have wisdom tooth! 

It all started when I started feeling bit of ache in right most end of mouth, this was kinda strange as I can’t recall having any problems with tooth all my life. Told mom about it and she instantly gave her verdict it was because of my obsessive love for chocolates and ice creams. I said silently, oh well would this tiny-miny tooth pain going to stop me from having my dear chocolates and darling ice creams. Indeed No! so I carried on for few more days until one night, somewhere around 11 PM, I felt such acute pain that within minutes I could see stars in sky (no, not real stars, we can’t see them in Karachi), and then I quickly had whatever medicines, pain killers, gharelo-tootkey (homemade medicines) I could think of and dashed to nearby dentist next day.

 Scene: Dentist Room. Characters: Mr. Dentist, Me, two helper boys of dentists.

Me lying on dentist patient chair, spot light on my face (hence eyes closed), x-ray lying on table and dentist with all his horrendous instruments peeking into my mouth and verdict.. oh my verdict was.. lo and behold… its my wisdom teeth! …he showed me that mischievous teeth on x-ray and you can’t imagine what a scene that was. It was like all my tooth were in line (mashaAllah :) ) including the last one and then just near right most wall of mouth, there is tiny teeth with absolute 45 degree facing to other tooth. It was totally out of place and inclined almost in funny manner :| . Well, tale then goes like, as expected, dentist said position of this teeth is such that there is no other option but to extract it out :(

 How I prepared myself to bear this major surgery (well, to me it WAS!), the happenings on surgery day, whole process of extracting out teeth and what happened after etc. is another story – will post about it later, but what I am just wondering now is what kinda twisted intellect that 45-degrees-inclined-teeth was conspiring to instill in me!

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  1. March 20, 2009 at 9:21 am | #1

    whaooo that was so intense, i kinda felt sweat on my forehead :D

  2. March 20, 2009 at 10:44 am | #2

    whaooo that was so intense, i kinda felt sweat on my forehead :D
    P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

  3. March 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm | #3

    Did you put that 45-degrees-inclined-tooth under your pillow? I’ve heard the fairies pay more for it. ;)

  4. Ali
    March 20, 2009 at 6:23 pm | #4

    @americanising desi: yea it was quite an ordeal, but alhamduLillah i am fine now :)
    @Saadat: haha, lolz :D

  5. March 20, 2009 at 6:31 pm | #5

    Nothing is worst than a toothache and earache .Hope you are better now.

  6. Ali
    March 20, 2009 at 6:38 pm | #6

    @Beenish: Yep I am fine now, thanks :)

  7. March 20, 2009 at 7:19 pm | #7

    Tooth extractions are always a shaking experience. Afterwards, did you get the feeling that you had lost a part of yourself :-| ?

    Anyways, maybe you can donate your wisdom tooth to the WSFPP (Wisdom and Sanity Fund for Pakistani-Politicians). They need every bit they can get :)

  8. Ali
    March 21, 2009 at 6:13 am | #8

    @Cube Warrior: Well that teeth was never welcomed, so I didnt feel like losing part of myself :)

    WSFPP > Lolz :D .. sure I would like to donate but not sure, only a single teeth would make difference, they would need lots of them :D

  9. March 21, 2009 at 9:16 am | #9

    Woah. Toothaches and dentists are an absolutely horrible experience. They seem evil to me. :P

  10. March 21, 2009 at 9:52 am | #10

    ooo its sad
    its also happen with my but i didn’t go through surgery me my wisdom teeth is also comming

  11. Ahmed
    March 23, 2009 at 7:19 pm | #11

    I can very well visualize the pain that you must have gone since i also had my wisdom tooth removed. Infact it was in such awkward position that the dentist had to break it into 2 parts to remove it.

  12. March 28, 2009 at 10:15 am | #12

    Good thing you didn’t have a root canal. Those are the worst =(

  13. April 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm | #13

    I kept getting this wierd ache in the right most end too for sometime, like twice it happened as such, but it randomly disappeared. I guess I was glad at the prospect of the ‘wisdom’ finally showing up :P but guess it decided otherwise :D

    Now, after reading bout your “un-pretty” ordeal, I’d rather it takes its time to come, no hurries :D

  1. March 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm | #1