This time, they looked in the phone book and found another hospital with dentists who could
handle English-speaking foreigners. I'm back home in Seattle now, but still haven't seen a dentist-mainly
because I don't have dental insurance. The dentist told me something...I thought she said 30,000
Dong, the Vietnamese currency. I got in a taxi and hightailed it over there, only
to be told that the earliest they could fit me in for a dental appointment
was 3 days later. She then took out her cell phone and called someone....managing to
tell me her friend could speak better English and would explain things to me. I
saw a pair of shoes outside the sliding glass entrance door, so took mine off
before entering. As I sat there alone, I looked around at the equipment-perhaps 1950s vintage
and a bit grimy and worse for wear-hoping that I wasn't making a mistake. Fortunately,
I hadn't seemed to break it close to any nerves and there was not much
pain. She quickly saw the problem and proceeded to clean out the gaping hole in
my tooth. Visit his blog at http://www.ambrosebittner.com. Despite coming out periodically, it worked!After 20 Zapatillas Puma hours
of flights and layovers, I arrived in Hanoi in the late evening and checked into
my hotel. When I took that out of my wallet to give to her, she
shook her head no. But within a few minutes she returned with another woman, who
was the dentist.Fortunately, the dentist could speak some English, although not much. The hotel staff
seemed to be a bit more helpful this time and suggested I go to a
clinic with foreign doctors and dentists they new of. The night staff didn't seem to
know...perhaps there was dentist nearby. But now it was time to pay the bill. She
leaned me back in the antique dental chair and shined the light into my mouth.
My tongue was starting to get quite raw from the sharp edges of the tooth.Back
at the hotel, I consulted with the front desk staff again. I hope the temporary
fix lasts until then!Ambrose Bittner is the founder of Red Lantern Journeys, a Seattle-based tour
operator focused on arranging tours and treks to Asia. The next morning I was free,
so devoted it to finding a dentist. The evening before a trip to tn requin Vietnam, I
broke the corner off a molar while eating my mom's leftover peanut brittle from the
Christmas holidays...that left no time to find a dentist. As I walked out the door
and down the street back to my hotel, I figured out what it had just
cost me in US dollars-at 17,000 Dong to the dollar, I had just paid her
a paltry $3.The point of this story is that you don't need to be afraid
of visiting doctors or hospitals formedical help in developing countries. She wanted 50,000 Dong! Being
a bit flustered and not being able to calculate the exchange rate well on short
noticed, I decided to just give it to her, thanking her profusely. I got on
the cell phone and her friend informed me that this was just a temporary fix
to my tooth and that I would need to have a permanent repair done when
I returned to my home country.That was it. I'm also planning my next trip to
Asia...India and Nepal in April. I couldn't find anything, so I decided to use a
tea candle to melt some wax to put on the tooth. Once cleaned, she whipped
up a little cement paste and filled in the hole and told me to rinse.
A little dental adventure in Rajasthan could be just what the doctor ordered. The temporary
fix is doing well still. I had brought a couple of extra tea candles so
had plenty of wax-despite a tendency to swallow it at every meal.I still had a
couple of hours to kill before my first meetings so decided to explore the neighborhood
around my hotel. The whole procedure took ten minutes. Not good enough. No more than
20 minutes total including wait time. We called, but the earliest they could make an
appointment was Monday morning...I accepted, hoping I could use the candle wax until then. I
asked if they knew of a dentist I could go to. A young woman inside
motioned me to take a seat in the dental chair and then promptly disappeared. I
went to to a grocery store pharmacyto find anything to protect the hole in my
tooth and my tongue from the sharp edges. Just a block away, I found a
tiny, 1-chair dental office. Visit the Red Lantern Journeys web site at http://www.redlanternjourneys.com..
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