33 teeth now!

I love my dentist in Japan. Today I had one of wisdom teeth taken out and I didn’t feel a thing! I am such a baby at the dentist after the butcher I had in Chasetown but she knows me now and as long as I have travel cat with me I’m fine (don’t ask).

After she’d finished we asked to keep the tooth and she was a little confused so Dawn and I explained about the tooth fairy. She was intrigued and I found out that in Japan they throw the baby’s bottom teeth on the roof and bury the upper teeth in the hope that the new set will grow straight. She gave me painkillers and special mouthwash to use for the rest of the week. All of that cost me a grand total of 13 pounds! I am really going to miss Japanese health insurance when I leave.

20 minutes later I was eating curry for lunch as if nothing had happened!