Let’s The Expert Do It Or You Will Pay For The Opportunity Cost
Posted by: pinkygreen on: August 21, 2009
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Yesterday (Aug 20 2009) I had to get my post operated gum checked again by my dentist. Yup, visiting dentist has become my new ‘habit’ lately (since June 2nd for the exact). I thought the yarn helped to stitch the wound while I was operated would be taken away from my mouth yesterday, but the fact, it’s not yet. It is because the gum (the post operated area) is still very red (the normal color is pink) as the dentist explained to me. I was asked to come again next two weeks; September 3rd.
I was not prescribed any antibiotics anymore. Thank God cause I was afraid that my body system was going to be resistant if I keep taking them in some period of time, not to mention the highest dosage I’ve ever received, it’s 625mg. (Knocked on wood) if someday I got sick and I have to take some antibiotics again, how much dosage should I take? It would be higher than 625mg! And it’s a huge amount!
But in order to make the recovery going smoothly or faster, I have to take some vitamins and supplements. I still have to continue consuming Calvit**n F*rte as a Calcium, Magnesium, and vitamin D intake. Besides, I have to add the intake from my dietary like from milk (don’t worry doctor, this is my favorite drink, I regularly drink it 2 glasses a day) eggs, and other food can supply calcium.
Furthermore, the dentist advised me not to exchange the temperature I live too dramatically. If I have to be in extreme temperature, let’s say entering my office area which is very cold cause full with AC from normal or from hot temperature, not to go directly into the cold room, but I have to ‘neutralize’ my body temperature first in an area which is not too cold and vice versa-from cold area to hot. Find a ‘neutral’ place with ‘neutral’ temperature before I enter the hot area.
She also told me that using a hair dyer with low button can helped the sinusitis recovery but it’s not too significant. Living and breathing air in a beach area is good place and suitable temperature to heal the sinusitis. If I have a chance to have a honeymoon with my future husband, I would ask him to take me to beaches area (but for the record, honestly to wherever it is in this whole world, as long as I am with the man I love, wherever the honeymoon highway is going to be won’t matter for me 
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I thought by having the surgery, my gum and the sinusitis problem is over. But it’s not that simple. I still have to let it checked by the dentist and her team in 2 or 3 months after the yarn taken away from my gum. It means it will be on the 3rd of November or 3rd of December. Oh my goodness, November, if God the Almighty let it to be happened (oh, God, please, I do hope it to be happened) my fiancé will come here and hopefully in December I would already have been with him in his country (inshaAllah, amien).
And I was a kind of shocked when the dentist told me that if the sinusitis still not recovered yet, it would be possible to do 2nd or 3rd surgery. Oh come on, more surgery? So far I’ve spent a lot of money for having this. Honestly, for me, it’s a lot as I have to pay it with my own cash; it’s not covered by my health insurance 
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For the record, the sinusitis I have only on my left sinus. I started to feel the symptom since last year (November 2008) but the peak was in last 3 months (early June). If common sinusitis is for both sinuses, mine is different. It’s only on my left sinus. And it is caused by a whole in my gum, penetrating and contaminating my sinus base (borrowing the dentist term; my sinus base is not virgin anymore).How did it happen? Here is the story.
I had to let my tooth (upper side, number 3 from behind, if in Dentistry; tooth number 15th or 1st molar) to be pulled out from it’s place-the gum as it was no longer useful. I did it in a general hospital (dentistry unit). The reason why I went to the general hospital (not directly took it to a dental clinic whereas my health insurance doesn’t apply on this place) was in order to use my health insurance which since I joined the institution 9 years ago, I never used the facility (read: I didn’t have to pay for it, well actually I did pay for it because I always pay for the insurance every month by cutting of my salary).
Finally I found out (by taking it to the dental clinic I avoid to visit at that time), ‘the operation’ did by the dentist 2 years ago at the general hospital has caused a whole in my gum as it wasn’t fully closed again like a normal and healthy gum and penetrate my sinus because the dentist didn’t cover the whole after the operation by not sewing it. It was supposed to be stitched because there’s a direct access from our mouth to sinuses. So, be careful if your upper tooth/teeth have to be pulled out from the gum as it/they no longer useful, make sure the dentist do the SOP-standard of operation.
The message I’m trying to share here, let’s the expert do it. If you avoid the expert for some reason (mine is because I wanted to use my health insurance or in other words, I didn’t want to pay an expensive cost as I have a limited budget), at the end of the day, you have to pay for the opportunity cost you missed by not taking the chance (on my case-I didn’t take the chance being handled by an expert, so I have to pay more at the end of the day) in the first place.
