When you reach middle age, there are older ones and younger ones. As you age, the parts of your body begin to move around and cause trouble with you.

Ordinarily, I pay more attention to health maintenance and have more experience, and I never dare to relax for a while.

In addition to running every morning and swimming every now and then, the dietary guidelines for Chinese residents are also comprehensively implemented and draw inferences from one example to other cases.

When I have disagreements with my husband and children, I always use what I chose and what I gave birth to to adjust my mood, and don’t compete with them.

I don’t know when I started to notice that my two front teeth were numb and painful from time to time. When it was severe, the gums inside slowly became red, swollen and ruptured, and they tended to get worse.

Look in the mirror. The roots of your teeth are not black. Make sure they are not rotten from the inside.

I have had toothache before. It always hurt like sizzling pain at first, and then the pain kept me awake all night. It felt different from this time.

This time I woke up with numb teeth and sore gums. It felt better during the day. I tried it all over the food and smear, but with little effect.

Consider that before the Chinese New Year, there are many people everywhere, and toothache is not a serious illness. Let’s survive the Chinese New Year.

This decision made me miserable during the Chinese New Year.

In the past few days, the "big brother"'s front teeth have completely gone on strike, and the work has been done by brothers on both sides working overtime.

Everything hurts when I bite into dumplings and steamed buns, and my front teeth, gums, and neighbors all hurt.

Go to the hospital! During the festival, there are only doctors on duty, and clinics of all sizes are still closed.

I look in the mirror countless times every day. I hold a small mirror in my hand and take a 360-degree picture without any blind spots. I can't see anything but red and swollen gums, it just hurts.

During this period, I asked several friends who had dental appointments, and none of them had toothaches that hurt like me.

One day I suddenly had a whim. It is said that when people reach middle age, their bodies are troubled. Could there be something growing on the gums?

I quickly checked online and found the three typical symptoms of gum cancer: ulcers, bleeding, and loose teeth.

It seems that I have two problems, ulcers and loose teeth.

It turns out that I didn’t feel that my teeth were loose. After reading this, I tried to break them with my hands when nothing happened, and I felt that they were getting looser and looser.

The baby’s father said, on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, I asked for leave to accompany you to see a doctor. You are under too much mental pressure.

I said: "You don't need to go, I will go to the doctor myself. I have to understand."

I think of the scenes in movies and TV shows where the doctor sends the patient away, leaving the patient’s family behind and informing the patient that he has a terminal illness.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the hospital officially started working for the first time. In order to save time, I first registered my number on my mobile phone to prevent various queues when paying. In case there is no parking space, take a taxi.

I registered at No. 8 in line, so I wasn’t too anxious. The hospital started work at 8 o’clock and I arrived at 7:40.

When I arrived in front of the outpatient clinic building, I was shocked. The flow of people who scanned the QR code to enter the outpatient clinic area had already been lined up for dozens of meters outside the gate.

I finally got outside the dental clinic where I was registered. Because I was registered as a specialist, there were more people. There were rows of chairs outside, and people were looking down at their phones. Sit down and wait!

In a place like the hospital, you really can't imagine beautiful things. People come and go, and no one has a happy expression on their face.

During this period, my father called me and asked me how I was doing. I said I didn’t notice the disease and was looking at my phone!

Looking at the display outside the waiting hall, I was on the 8th. When I got to the 7th, I stood up and was so excited.

Finally it was the director's turn to treat me. He first asked me to open my mouth and look at it, and then listened to me talking like Mrs. Xianglin without saying a word.

Then he typed on the keyboard for a long time and said: "You go get a CT scan, I will take a look at the basic situation, and finally give you a treatment plan."

What? Do you want a dental CT scan? I wanted to ask again, but the doctor sent me to take a picture first, and then said, "Next." I walked out of the treatment room in confusion.

At this moment, I received a call from my husband and asked me how my teeth were going. He said that he had indirectly found an acquaintance in another hospital and asked me to go directly to this person.

I looked at the CT sheet in my hand, then at the bustling crowd outside the CT room, and tore up the sheet directly.

Rush to the next hospital non-stop.

This time it was much simpler. The doctor looked at the condition of my teeth. Because I am not a professional, I can only describe the matter in words I can understand.

My lower four teeth are buckled inwards, and the upper four teeth are protruding outwards. This causes the lower teeth to buckle against the gums of my upper teeth. When I sleep, my teeth bite together. Over time, my gums become red, swollen and worn. .

There are three treatment methods given: one is to wear plastic braces, and put back the inwardly buckled lower teeth and the outwardly protruding upper braces.

But given my age, the effect will not be ideal.

The price of braces is around 3,000, which is cheap. Brands include Invisalign and Age Angel, ranging from 20,000 to 40,000.

The second method is to grind down the upper and lower 6 teeth, and then glue them on with porcelain braces. The cost is 900 yuan a piece, so I’d better think of a way and give them a friendly price.

The third method: and the most permanent method is to extract a few protruding and inwardly buckling teeth.

For direct dental implantation, 12 teeth are needed per day, and the price of one tooth is around 4,000--13,000

In his words, my teeth are getting longer with age. , the deformity will become more and more serious, this is to treat it from the root. There is no hidden danger of losing teeth when you get older.

He asked me to eliminate inflammation first and consider which treatment plan to use. I prescribed some medicine and left the hospital.

When I went out and called my husband, he couldn’t make up his mind which one I should choose. They all have pros and cons.

Standing on the road outside the hospital, watching the people coming and going, the traffic, I was at a loss what to do.

Later I decided to try my luck at one of the largest dental clinics in our local area.

When we arrived outside the clinic, as soon as we went up the steps, two nurses in blue coats came out of the glass door.

While saying welcome, he stretched out his hand to signal me to pay attention to the steps under my feet.

Going inside, a service staff took the number and led him directly to the clinic.

The doctor inside said welcome kindly. Seeing this attitude, I felt a little comforted.

After hearing what I said about the condition of my teeth, I was asked to pay the examination fee first. After paying it, I lay down on the treatment chair.

There is a small computer in front of me, hanging on the upper left side of my sight after I lie down at 45 degrees. I can clearly see the situation in my mouth.

While examining me, the doctor told me several treatment plans. He first denied wearing braces and said whoever proposed this plan to me was lying to me.

He suggested that I get dental implants, but it would take a little longer. Dental implants take about 4-8 months from tooth extraction, tooth root implantation to completion of restoration.

This mainly includes the time for the integration of artificial tooth roots and bones. It usually takes about 3 months for lower teeth and about 6 months for upper teeth.

Re-examination every 1-2 months, about 1 hour each time.

After completing the dental implant, you must properly care for your teeth and go here regularly for oral health care. Otherwise, no matter how good the dental implant is, it will not last long.

The disadvantage of installing a porcelain crown is that tooth sensitivity will increase, and tooth soreness may occur when eating.

We do not rule out the possibility of gum damage, such as gingival inflammatory lesions, or a foreign body sensation in the mouth.

He asked me to think about what treatment plan to adopt.

I said I would go home and discuss it with my family, and he said he would let me take a CT scan first, and the treatment team would work out the best plan. I can get immediate treatment when I come back.

After I left the clinic, I called my husband. He listened to my description of such a complicated process and asked me to go home first and discuss it later.

I don’t want to choose between porcelain crowns and dental implants, because I don’t have any problem with the roots of my teeth. It’s just my lower teeth that push against my upper teeth, and I have to grind and extract them. It’s scary just thinking about it.

The original parts given by parents cannot be destroyed easily even in the spirit of never abandoning or giving up.

I suddenly remembered a dental clinic I went to. The doctor was the dental director of the hospital and opened his own clinic after retirement.

But after calculation, he is now over 80 years old, and I don’t know if he is still working.

With the intention of giving it a try, I decided to try my luck again.

When I arrived, the old director was still sitting in the clinic. After saying hello, he asked me to open my mouth and take a look.

I told him first that I didn’t want to extract the tooth. He smiled and said, I’ll take a look first. After reading it, he asked me about other treatment plans.

When I was narrating, he kept listening with a smile and did not interrupt me.

In the end, he listened to me and told me that it didn’t need to be so complicated and he could solve it in three minutes.

It means to blunt the sharp parts of the lower teeth so that they cannot touch the gums when biting.

I ran away for a day and paid three yuan for treatment, and it was solved so quickly.

I asked worriedly, what if the upper teeth sink and touch each other again when we bite. He comforted me and said, "You won't have to come back until then, at least now. Your teeth are basically damaged." "Very good, don't move."

I sincerely thanked him for his high treatment skills and said that no one else had thought of using this method.

He smiled and said, "Silly boy, do you really think my skills are better than others? This doesn't make any money."