Dental care in United States is considered a very costly affair plus we as students on a meager student insurance do not enjoy the dental and eye care benefits. Does that mean "our" smiles are flawed!! Well I never realized this until I had gone to India and knocked my dentist's doors for a routine checkup. Dr. Mitra being our family friend and doctor was going to give me a tough time ahead that never occurred in wildest of my dreams... It all started with a mere ulcer I developed as a result of small food particles housing for few days uncleaned. I was being administered anti-biotics for a month and it got over there and then! I was so wrong and this doctor freaked me out telling it was a serious problem of swollen gums and need a contouring to fix it. I was hardly listening to him while he was examining the aperture wide open. "Well we would need a very small surgery to fix it" he said in a plain monotone. This was enough to bring me out of my reverie and I w...