Trip to the Dentist

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It was time to visit the dentist, again. Daeng called and the dentist said she was not busy so if we came right now she could see both of us. We just hopped on the old motorbike and popped into the dentist's office.

Let me talk about dental treatment in this little border town of about 22,000 people on the Myanmar (Burma) border in Thailand. This dental office is a husband and wife operation where the husband runs the office, answers the telephone and helps out. His wife, the dentist, speaks understandable English and uses all the western methods of doing dental work.

Daeng got into the chair first and had one very large cavity filled and one small, surface cavity filled along with her teeth cleaned and polished up.

We talked about the bridge work color on the bridge she had done last year. She said she would redo the bridge if we wanted. Daeng said it was okay as it was in the very back on the lower left side and it was close enough to the color of her other teeth.

I got into the chair and had my teeth checked and had two teeth smoothed out and polished.

We thanked her and promised to return in six months. Our total bill, for both of us, was 1000 Thai Baht, around $33.00 US dollars. Yes, that was for both of us.

Life is good.