Have you ever received any complaints from your granny or your loved one who wear denture, saying that the food you buy or cook is too hard for them to chew? Well, if you do and you think they are just trying to mess up with you and make your life difficult, you have to change your mind. I strongly suggest that you go for a complicated extracted that require suturing (eventhough you don't need one, LOL). It is only after this that you will realise how many foods that you think they are impossible to be considered "hard" are actually hard for the denture wearing people. Even grilled chicken can irritate the gum , not to mention about nuts and vegetables. At best, they will swallow what you give them in order not to dissapoint you and waste your effort. So, please be sensitive.
Prepare food that is chewable, make them into small chunk and ask them to chew on both sides. Also, ask them to take their denture out everytime when they do not need to use it. It helps in my granny's case. Presumably, it will work in most case.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Wisdom tooth
I haven't being injected with IAN Block after 2nd year in dental school when we learn how to jap each other. And, i have really forgotten about the feeling of being the one sitting down in the dental chair, waiting to be injected with the long needle.
Today, i got my first IAN block plus multiple infiltration all around my impacted third molar. To be honest, the injections weren't very pleasant. Hence, i would like to say thank you to all of the patients or colleagues that i have given injections in the past three years. You were really brave.
I am glad that i had the opportunity to experince what the patient felt during extration of impacted third molar (wisdom tooth). In the mean time, i feel really awful to have to gone through extraction eventhough i didn't eat tonnes of sweets and i was brushing and flossing my teeth. Well, this is life, life is unfair. Now that i understand so deeply that "agenesis of wisdom tooth can be a blessing", it really mean something to me now. And, i doubt the presence of an impacted wisdom tooth will make you any superior in term intelligence as compared to people without one.
Having my wisdom tooth extracted, part of my anterior border of my ramus drilled away with bone drill, my retromolar pad cut open and stitched back, I now have to swallow eat soft diet with small size spoon and not to mention about pain killerssss. It is hurting even when i swallow, I WANT THIS TO GO AWAY ASAP. :(
Today, i got my first IAN block plus multiple infiltration all around my impacted third molar. To be honest, the injections weren't very pleasant. Hence, i would like to say thank you to all of the patients or colleagues that i have given injections in the past three years. You were really brave.
I am glad that i had the opportunity to experince what the patient felt during extration of impacted third molar (wisdom tooth). In the mean time, i feel really awful to have to gone through extraction eventhough i didn't eat tonnes of sweets and i was brushing and flossing my teeth. Well, this is life, life is unfair. Now that i understand so deeply that "agenesis of wisdom tooth can be a blessing", it really mean something to me now. And, i doubt the presence of an impacted wisdom tooth will make you any superior in term intelligence as compared to people without one.
Having my wisdom tooth extracted, part of my anterior border of my ramus drilled away with bone drill, my retromolar pad cut open and stitched back, I now have to swallow eat soft diet with small size spoon and not to mention about pain killerssss. It is hurting even when i swallow, I WANT THIS TO GO AWAY ASAP. :(
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