JAW-DROPPING

Laying on the patient’s chair, I opened my mouth wide.

‘Lovely teeth as always Gill,’ my dentist smiled, examining my gums.

It was my six-monthly checkup at the dentist.

I had always been a regular dentist-goer, and took pride in my near perfect teeth that had never had so much as a filling or a crown.

‘See you in another six months!’ my dentist said.

‘Brush until they’re shining!’

I nagged them day and night.

A couple of months after my appointment, in May 2019, I began to feel some pain and tingling in my jaw that wouldn’t budge.

‘It’s best you got it checked out,’ my husband Rob, 47, said.