Subsiding Toothache and IPL

The last 15 days passed by struggling with the toothache and watching IPL. The fantasy cricket I was playing is over. I got 57250 points with 7396 rank. Not bad considering that I started playing late and missed about 20 matches. With the concluding ceremony of IPL, the daily dose of cricket, fakeiplplayer's blogs, cheerleaders' glimpses and fantasy cricket has ended. Now, I wonder what would I do next until the upcoming World Cup T20.

The toothache is subsiding with every passing day. I had developed a condition called "dry sockets" after the surgery. A very good link about it is
http://www.animated-teeth.com/dry-sockets/a1-dry-sockets.htm
I went to the dentist again and he induced some blood clots. The gums are still healing and I will not be able to eat paani puris and burgers for few more days. :(

Now my own IPL team

I have been busy in this IPL season. I have bought my own team and I regularly gauge the performance of the players and make necessary changes. Though, I started late, I have been catching up fast with other teams in the league. When I started, my rank was around 28000. As of today my rank is around 12000. Here is a link where you can create your own IPL team.

http://fantasygame.cricketnext.in.com/cricket_game/

The best part is that you can make unlimited number of changes. Make your team, create a league and you can play against each other.

My team's name is crazyking. You can track my team, invite me in your league and compete with me.

So much for a tooth, which is useless

After more than 2 years of sporadic toothache, I finally got rid of the wisdom tooth. It was a minor surgery lasting around 70 minutes. The dentist injected 6 syringes of anesthetic substance in my mouth followed by one each in arm and buttocks. Even after such a high dose of anesthetics, I could very well feel the drill going on in my mouth. At many occasions, my mouth was filled with my blood. After many ouches and uffs, the tooth was out. The dentist charged me 50% extra for the complicated case. Nevertheless, now when it is out, the pain has gone down - thanks to the painkillers and the antibiotics.

Wisdom tooth, as I have read is rarely used in chewing the food. It usually gives pains when there is no place in the gum for it's uproot. I spent so many days and nights with its pain, surviving on liquid diets sometimes and having painkillers for it.

After the surgery, I vowed to take a good care of my teeth and gum lest visit a dentist (besides regular checkup). To my surprise, the dentist advised me not to use mouthwash regularly. Twice in a week is fine, but not daily. She said that a regular use might tarnish the enamel and the whiteness on the teeth. An alternative for the mouthwash is to gargle with salted lukewarm water.