last saturday, my grandma, my mom and dad and i went to seksyen 7 to accompany my grandma to the dentist..
for her final stage of dental implant...
as my grandma was called in, my mom n dad followed suite...huh?...nk ikot jugak la! (i followed in as well):p
after my grandma lie comfortably on the dental chair, Dr Firdaus took out her x ray and praised how excellent the implant is!
(but i can only see two rod sticking in the incisor part of the mandible)...hmm?
then, Dr Firdaus said he'd put in some anesthetics, we'd need to wait for another half an hour or so, and he will call us back in to put in my grandma's teeth...i looked at the set of lower dentures sat on his surgical tray...
urm, why would he need anesthesia to put in that dentures? i questioned...
so, slowly...i went to my dad's side and asked him..."ntah!, kklg tanye la dr!" (i dunno, why don't u ask the dr!)...urmm...shy as usual (haha), i kept quiet...so, as dr firdaus finished anesthetizing my grandma and we were about to go out of his examination room, my dad asked him
"ni...my daughter tanye why do u need to anesthetize her grandma"
"owh, to make like a clip for her denture to her implants...tak pe, nnt i show u how i do it!" dr firdaus replied with a smile...i returned his smile...and we've broken the ice!
so, for the second time in dr firdaus's room...i asked here and there as he worked on my grandma...felt like in an operating theater with a very helpful teaching dr...
"okay, we use a 12-blade to expose the implant"...he started..."and cut out the mucosa covering the implant i've drilled in 3 months ago"...
"we use titanium for the implant as it integrates excellently with the bone! see, no signs of inflammation at all" he said pointing at the xray and my grandma's lower jaw..."u see, Subhanallah!!!...among all the stuff our body rejects and make and inflammation around, on titanium, it doesn't...not only our body does not reject it...the bone even integrates with titanium..any other metal...even calcium...if we put calcium rod in our body our body defense will reject it or even another human bone!...but not titanium!"
"why?"...
"not sure, it was found accidentally!"
"who found it?"
"an orthopedic surgeon actually...Dr Branemark, he was doing his master research about blood flow in bone, so, he used a rabbit's femur and borrowed his professor's microscope...he put the microscope in the bone and observed...his master research was a success...and his professor asked for his microscope back...and that is when he realized, not only the microscope was stuck...the rabbit's bone even integrates with it...and that microscope was made of... Titanium!"
"accidental discovery!" my mum said
"yup, most discoveries were realized accidentally...they happen everyday in front of us, it really depends on us, whether we are a good observer or not...see, Branemark there could ignore the fact that his professor's microscope was stuck and just chip off the rabbit's bone...but instead, he saw this as a new finding...and investigated it!
"wow!"...loading these infos...hehe
i learned a lot from Dr Firdaus dat day...and seriously i felt like am back in Cairo for a moment there...hehe
there were many other topics we discussed about in that hour and a half procedure...and dun worry, Dr Firdaus has the best interest in his patient, my grandma was comfortable as ever during our whole discussion...
after discussing titanium's structure and how to wait for it to blend in with the jaw first before clipping on the dentures...we talked about acrylic resin... it caught my eye, cause acrylic exert exothermic heat...Dr. Firdaus even let me test it...hee..:D
well, this is too long already i guess,
thinkin of taking dentistry?...hehe, they say we can get rich easily being a dentist...
but medicine has always been my passion...hmm...
well, from his talk...what i get is, be observant!...the truth might just be starring in our face this whole while...and we might be the next huge discoverer!!!
slamat mengejar malam lailatul qadar!!!...:)
owh, pray for me and my family too k!
for her final stage of dental implant...
as my grandma was called in, my mom n dad followed suite...huh?...nk ikot jugak la! (i followed in as well):p
after my grandma lie comfortably on the dental chair, Dr Firdaus took out her x ray and praised how excellent the implant is!
(but i can only see two rod sticking in the incisor part of the mandible)...hmm?
then, Dr Firdaus said he'd put in some anesthetics, we'd need to wait for another half an hour or so, and he will call us back in to put in my grandma's teeth...i looked at the set of lower dentures sat on his surgical tray...
urm, why would he need anesthesia to put in that dentures? i questioned...
it was like this image except there were only two implants on the lower central incisor's part
so, slowly...i went to my dad's side and asked him..."ntah!, kklg tanye la dr!" (i dunno, why don't u ask the dr!)...urmm...shy as usual (haha), i kept quiet...so, as dr firdaus finished anesthetizing my grandma and we were about to go out of his examination room, my dad asked him
"ni...my daughter tanye why do u need to anesthetize her grandma"
"owh, to make like a clip for her denture to her implants...tak pe, nnt i show u how i do it!" dr firdaus replied with a smile...i returned his smile...and we've broken the ice!
so, for the second time in dr firdaus's room...i asked here and there as he worked on my grandma...felt like in an operating theater with a very helpful teaching dr...
"okay, we use a 12-blade to expose the implant"...he started..."and cut out the mucosa covering the implant i've drilled in 3 months ago"...
"we use titanium for the implant as it integrates excellently with the bone! see, no signs of inflammation at all" he said pointing at the xray and my grandma's lower jaw..."u see, Subhanallah!!!...among all the stuff our body rejects and make and inflammation around, on titanium, it doesn't...not only our body does not reject it...the bone even integrates with titanium..any other metal...even calcium...if we put calcium rod in our body our body defense will reject it or even another human bone!...but not titanium!"
"why?"...
"not sure, it was found accidentally!"
"who found it?"
"an orthopedic surgeon actually...Dr Branemark, he was doing his master research about blood flow in bone, so, he used a rabbit's femur and borrowed his professor's microscope...he put the microscope in the bone and observed...his master research was a success...and his professor asked for his microscope back...and that is when he realized, not only the microscope was stuck...the rabbit's bone even integrates with it...and that microscope was made of... Titanium!"
"accidental discovery!" my mum said
"yup, most discoveries were realized accidentally...they happen everyday in front of us, it really depends on us, whether we are a good observer or not...see, Branemark there could ignore the fact that his professor's microscope was stuck and just chip off the rabbit's bone...but instead, he saw this as a new finding...and investigated it!
"wow!"...loading these infos...hehe
i learned a lot from Dr Firdaus dat day...and seriously i felt like am back in Cairo for a moment there...hehe
there were many other topics we discussed about in that hour and a half procedure...and dun worry, Dr Firdaus has the best interest in his patient, my grandma was comfortable as ever during our whole discussion...
after discussing titanium's structure and how to wait for it to blend in with the jaw first before clipping on the dentures...we talked about acrylic resin... it caught my eye, cause acrylic exert exothermic heat...Dr. Firdaus even let me test it...hee..:D
well, this is too long already i guess,
thinkin of taking dentistry?...hehe, they say we can get rich easily being a dentist...
but medicine has always been my passion...hmm...
well, from his talk...what i get is, be observant!...the truth might just be starring in our face this whole while...and we might be the next huge discoverer!!!
slamat mengejar malam lailatul qadar!!!...:)
owh, pray for me and my family too k!
