The Panoramic X-Ray for Finding My Lost Extra Teeth
Going to a new dentist means setting up new dental records. I confidently told Dr. Arleen Uy (Room 818 of the St. Luke’s Hospital North Tower) that I have extra teeth both in the upper and lower parts of my mouth, but, I don’t know where exactly. For her records and to clarify my assertion, she requested that I have an X-ray done at the St. Luke’s Hospital X-ray department.
Although the X-ray was perfectly fine with me, I did not expect the X-ray to be done with a machine that made me feel like I was in a science fiction movie. The prescription order called for a panoramic X-ray, which could only be done by a piece of special X-ray equipment that was meant for dentists’ needs alone.
I was asked by the technician to clamp my teeth on a piece of plastic, before my upper skull was lightly gripped by a mechanism to hold it steady and still. And then, a part of the X-ray machine moved to go around my head, mere centimeters away from my nose and shoulder as it passed, making me feel like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars or Ripley in Aliens for some strange reason.
That is why, when the technician regretfully informed me that the process had to be done again because the contrast in the image was not enough, I was not thinking of radiation and its effects, but, rather, relishing the thought of another sci-fi moment. LOL Oh, and, I was able to show Dr. Arleen Uy my extra teeth. 
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