Over the last fortnight I have found myself a couple of times lying on my back with my jaws open feeling a little prick in my mouth!! The reason for this is of course that I visited a dental surgeon in Tokyo for the first time having suffered a week of intense pain in my teeth a few weeks ago. This was a little scary but not for the usual obvious reasons.

I actually don’t mind going to the dentists but maybe thats because I have had very little work done over the years. My main worry was the language barrier and as I expected I didn’t understand a word he said……….and that was with him speaking in fluent English!!

No real problems was thankfully his verdict for the moment but it seems that I will have to have one of my top wisdom teeth pulled out sometime in the future as its easier to pull this one out rather the bottom one which are growing at discomforting angles and grinding against each other in a way which can cause me pain when I’m eating. That description sounds a lot worse than it really is so don’t worry! The pain has more-or-less gone now and I have changed to a soft toothbrush as ten years of brushing with a cheap hard one caused horrible tooth decay!!