My dental check up

OK SO I LIED. I've been helping my friend do Japanese to English translations this whole week so I haven't had the time to type up my week in Hong Kong.

So here's my dentist blog - my visit to Onehealth Dental in Remuera.

If you read the post I made a few weeks back, you’d know that my friend, Freak recently bought a deal for a dental check up + clean + 2 xrays and she went used the voucher. Her last check up was about 2 years ago which was fine so she was expecting pretty good results this time. Unfortunately for her, she had to get 6 fillings and one of her wisdom tooth (she knew about this one) removed. She was quoted over NZ$800!!! 

Ouch!

I haven’t been to a dentist since intermediate school – like a decade ago. The intermediate school I went to had a dental clinic on site so students got called up and had regular checkups and cleans. After intermediate, you had to sign up with your own dentist. Being the lazy person that I am, I never did... so throughout my five years of high school and until I turned 18, I never took advantage of the free dental care (dental care is covered by the government until you turn 18).

So when another deal came up on Grabone, I decided to buy it. I paid $89 for the voucher which included a check up, clean, 2 xrays and 10% discount on any further work needed. I went in two weeks ago on Thursday to book an appointment and lucky for me, someone had cancelled theirs so I made my appointment for the very next day!

Boy oh boy... it felt rushed, but then again, I don't know what visits to the dentist should feel like. The dentist was really good though! He was so nice and chatty. His assistant was giggly but I feel like it was all a show. LOL.

I was clean and cleared - the only thing really that the dentist recommended was that I return for another clean (ten years build up is quite a lot) and I was quoted NZD$164!!! My god. It is a whole lot cheaper than my friend's, but I can't just conjure money out of thin air.

Now, every time I eat, I get the urge to brush my teeth. I JUST HAVE TO KEEP IT CLEAN. UGH! What's worse is that two front teeth on my bottom row are not in line. After the dentist cleaned it, there's now a gap that I can't stop playing with!! My tongue is now really sore (from playing with the gap and getting scratched by it) and I can't take it anymore. I really want to have my teeth straightened. The crookedness of my teeth never bothered me - it's on the bottom row and no one really notices it. It's not even that big of a deal since it's only just slight. But now... UGH. Need. TO. STRAIGHTEN. TEETH!!!

For the past week, when I wasn't obsessing over my gap, or my friend's translation documents, I was obsessing over this. I've been texting my uncle in HK about dental care there. SOUNDS SO MUCH CHEAPER. I'm truly keen to go for a check up and clean and get a quote for teeth straightening the next time I go back.

Gotta weigh it up... new laptop vs straight teeth. Straight teeth is winning unfortunately even though technically new laptop is probably more important since my teeth isn't a health issue - assuming I have cleans every year.

So it's decided. Straight teeth it is. Of course, it'd be best if I got everything...