Braces with Dr Alfred Cheng

So after the longest time, I have finally decided to get braces. The reason why I haven’t been doing it was because I’m so afraid of the pain. :/

It took me some time to decide on who and where to go for braces. I went asking around friends who have done it and also googling online to find good and reasonable price ones.  And I finally decided to get it done with Dr Alfred Cheng who is quite well known around by most people.

After I have decided, I rang up the clinic to fix an appointment with him for consultation. I was quite glad as I do not have to wait for too long to get my consultation date. On the consultation day, I was so worried and everything else but I was glad that boyfriend stayed throughout with me. Not by my side but accompanying me over the phone and that was really good enough for me. J

So Dr Alfred Cheng did a quick check on my teeth and told me about my problems which are overcrowding and open bite. And I have to get 4 teeth extracted. I was more or less prepared to extract 4 teeth after reading so many reviews on the internet.

My treatment started on the day itself with X-ray and moulding of teeth done and extraction was done the following week and braces could be put on the week after extraction. I like it cause it was a fast process. J

But what worries me most was the extraction. I have never really been to the dentist to have my tooth extracted. Thanks to xifang who accompanied me along for the extraction. I could never be any more thankful to have nice friends around! J The extraction took roughly about 30 mins and Dr Wee, who extracted my teeth, was very patient and nice. He managed to calm me down a little by assuring me that it’s not going to be very painful, which turns out to be true to a certain extent haha! Before the extraction, he injected anesthetics into my gum to numb it and the pricking of the needles was so painful! It feels alright during the extraction just that the constant shaking was making my jaw very “suan”. But it was quite bad for me because the next few days, the pain started kicking in and I could barely eat anything because I was too scared. L

And so last Friday, I had finally gotten the braces. It is a little comfortable but I am quite glad that it wasn’t really painful except when the wire is now starting to poke me a little. I cant wait to for the day when I can start eating proper food. 

This is how I look like now. Maybe my jaw line will become more define! hahah!