Gay Boy Thailand

Vanity

- Why your teeth yellow? asked Chalerm one day, when I sat close to the window and he got a good look.
- I don’t know, I said.
- I not see before, said Chalerm. - Not beautiful.
- It is only a little yellow, I said.
- I think you can go dentist, said Chalerm. - Can make white.

Since Chalerm said this I can conveniently blame him for my vanity. I have thought about having my teeth bleached for a while. It costs about 10,000 baht in Bangkok and they do it in an hour, using so-called laser treatment.

But my distrust of Thai doctors extend to Thai dentists. I wanted to ask my dentist in Farangland first.

I have used the same farang dentist for 20 years. He is good. He has integrity too, never recommending anything expensive if it can wait, never trying to sell me something I don’t need.

- We don’t recommend the one hour procedure, said my dentist. - Some do it but the stuff they use is too strong. 35% oxide. It can dry out your teeth and damange them. Apply 10% or 15% oxide instead, at home, over several days.

The dentist took an imprint of my upper and lower jaw using what he said was an algae-based material. It tasted funny. He cleaned my teeth and said I should wait a couple of days.

I then came back when they had made rails for me. I will use them when I am back in Bangkok. I will put the oxide stuff in the rails, attach them to my teeth and go to sleep. Repeat five days upper teeth and then five days lower teeth.

I should flush with fluoride daily to avoid sensitive teeth while doing the whitening, said the dentist.

The cost is 15,000 baht. A farang friend said unkindly: - You can do this but you will still be a gay man over 40.

I will tell you how it goes.