Tere!

Did you know that it is almost impossible to have a corona cluster at a dental clinic? At the dental clinic, they treat patients’ mouths, so the hygiene is good, which is said to make it nearly impossible to have a cluster. 

I read this kind of story in some article, but can’t remember the source…

Anyway, I went to see a dentist in Estonia this time!

Actually this is the second time to see a dentist in Estonia, and I did once in 2018.

Because my front tooth got chipped while eating pancakes.

I know it’s unbelievable, but it’s freaking true.

I urgently looked for an English speaking dentist, and she did some treatment for the tipped tooth. In addition, I asked her how my wisdom teeth were, but she said there was no decay and no need to remove them. (It’s painful when it grows in the mouth, but when it stops growing, there is no pain.)

However, she told me not to use toothpaste for whitening which I used at that time.

This is because the whitening toothpaste scratches teeth.

Since then, I have used regular toothpaste. (But it’s actually not that easy to find since these days whitening toothpastes are more common.)

This time I didn’t have any pain due to decay, was annoyed by wisdom teeth, or got another tooth tipped, but I wanted my mouth cleaner. That’s why I went to see a dentist.

In Estonia there is a Facebook group called Expats in Tallinn. One day I found a post about a good English speaking dentist in Tallinn. Many of the answers mentioned Van Thai Nguyen at Roseni Hambakliniik. Just in case I saved the information.

And then, I booked an appointment. (This is irrelevant but his name sounds Vietnamese, doesn’t it?)

You can book an appointment at Roseni Hambakliniik online.

But!

You need your Estonian ID card, so be careful.

As of July 2021, you can’t book with Smart ID.

Due to this system which is relatively old compared to other systems in Estonia, I had to go to TTU/Taltech’s library in order to book an appointment.

(The reason why I chose TTU was because Tallinn University’s libraries were closed due to the summer vacation, and neither was the central library. Yes, I still don’t have a card reader though I have lived in Estonia for four years. That’s because I can basically do anything, usually with the Smart ID.)

You can select a date and time one month ahead on Roseni Hambakliniik’s website, but I did prefer some time in July. On the contrary the dentist seemed to have a vacation at the end of July, so I eventually chose the date and time in the following week.

Then I went to the dental clinic. It’s located in Rottermani district, but it was a bit difficult to find. If you follow the map, you can see a sign board that says:

Go up

with an arrow. Follow the instruction, turn left to the slope side, and you can see the clinic. (It’s also difficult to explain with words, but since there’s the dental clinic’s sign board, it shouldn’t be that hard to find in real life.)

A nurse gave me a questionnaire about COVID-19, after which, I went to the treatment room.

I was right; the dentist was Asian.

He roughly examined my mouth, and said:

You have stains. We can remove them, but it’s out of the insurance. What will you do?

Really?

I came there just to remove calculus, but I didn’t want stains, so I asked how much it would be. He said with removal of both stains and calculus, it would cost 100 euro.

No no no, I don’t have such a huge amount of money now.

So I asked him to just remove the calculus.

You have white spots too.

What’s that?

White spots are basically seen on my front teeth. However, I have had them since I got them, so I told him that I didn’t care that much.

After the treatment, he recommended me to use rubber dental floss because there are some spaces between a few teeth where a string floss cannot clean enough.

As for my wisdom teeth, there was no problem. (By the way, I have them all.) Other teeth’s conditions were fine too, so he told me that I could come there again next year.

So I’ll go there next summer or some time.

(But I still don’t like having stains… Maybe I’ll buy whitening toothpaste temporarily.)

Aitäh! 🙂