Plastic Ono Teeth

Woke up about 4AM wondering about teeth and all...how will they do this? what will happen with that? When I heard the roosters crow out my window-yes in the middle of a city- and hadn't had one of those dreams about missing flights or stolen bags I knew I'd been awake for a couple of hours at least. [By the way, stealing does not seem to be prevalent in ChiangMai, unless I am just lucky]

So after a breakfast at my favourite brekkie spot: The Peppermint Coffee House-[which is now a 10 minute walk from my new digs] and where the owner told me about some NGO projects going on around the Thai/Myanmar border and how they needed teachers-I hot footed it back to my hotel and armoured myself for the Dentist. Even though people have told me the Dentists here are gentle and it is an overall good experience, I was obviously anxious.

The Dentist was lovely- a very soft spoken guy- a graduate of UCLA Dental School, and very smart about what to do with the deteriorating teeth in my head. What he worked out is going to be less expensive than what I figured out. So we started right away. 

An hour and a bit was spent drilling my front teeth into little pointy teeth- because they are getting capped. Then he made up a plastic "plate" to fit on top of my real teeth-the now pointy ones, while someone is making the actual caps that will stay on forever. You will note in the snap below, that the plastic teeth are considerably whiter than my own! I have never before had such big white teeth, nor will I again. 

I thought a lot about asking him to leave them pointy, so I could flash them at people and scare the crap out of them and then have a right proper belly laugh about it, but the moment passed and besides he spent about 20 minutes or so getting them just right! 

Get a load of these choppers:

My Plastic Ono Teeth- eat your heart out Yoko