Unfortunately I had a toothache for the last couple of days, either thanks to a vicious stone hidden in a yummy cinnamon roll or because my remaining wisdom tooth decided to start making trouble.

Luckily there is no scarity of dentists in Kathmandu. Especially in a lane near Durbar Square you will find many “dental clinics” like the one in the first photo. To survive the treatment in one of these highly sophisticated and modern clinics, you would have to make an offering to the toothache god in form of a coin nailed on the wooden log in the second picture.

As I am neither Hindu nor Buddhist, the toothache god would probably ignore my offering, so I decided I’d rather get an appointment with an america trained dentist…