Was eating Assam Laksa just now at Old Town, was chewing the white noodle..the noodle weren't that stringy/ chewy.. but I felt and heart this snap from my lower right jaw and a sudden but slight pain was felt. I suspect the bracket of the molar has snapped open. I can feel some discomfort on that area whenever I bit down. Didn't finish my assan laksa then.. but the french toast ordered was heaven... so i slowly chewed the bread using the right side of the jaw..
sigh..
my next visit to the ortho is on the 19th... i think i'll call them tomorrow to ask whether I can go earlier..before my gums suffer more.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
points to ponder
I ran into a former colleague a few weeks ago. I haven't met her for a quite some time..eversince she stopped working- to take care of her two children. So, suffice to say she wasn't around when I first started my braces treatment and certainly wasn't around to see the slow changes that were happening to me and my mug. Anyways...we chit-chatted for a while when the inevitable questions popped out. When I told her that I had had a jaw surgery, she looked surprised, saying that she never noticed that there was anything wrong with my teeth.. however, when I said that I went through the surgery to correct my bite, she mimed this look of over-extending her lower jaw and... i just ho-hmm-ed my confirmation. She DID remember how I looked but just didn't think the condition needed any correction.
There was another thing she said that sort of got me thinking about what aesthetics mean to some people. I had talked briefly about the surgery, some of the effects... and I had started saying something like..."I went through the surgery...All in the name of..." I was going to say..All in the name of beauty or something about a good smile/ bite...etc. She finished off my sentence with.."vanity". I was about to correct her when something held me back.
It was most certainly not vanity. I realised it was quite fruitless expaining to her why I did it. :)... so, I turned the conversation somewhere else and that was that.
Vanity... desire for admiration because of one's personal attainments or attractions. Nope. Definitely not that.
There was another thing she said that sort of got me thinking about what aesthetics mean to some people. I had talked briefly about the surgery, some of the effects... and I had started saying something like..."I went through the surgery...All in the name of..." I was going to say..All in the name of beauty or something about a good smile/ bite...etc. She finished off my sentence with.."vanity". I was about to correct her when something held me back.
It was most certainly not vanity. I realised it was quite fruitless expaining to her why I did it. :)... so, I turned the conversation somewhere else and that was that.
Vanity... desire for admiration because of one's personal attainments or attractions. Nope. Definitely not that.
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