Posted: 12/11/2009 4:37:08 PM EDT
| So I might have to have my wisdom teeth removed. 2 at the least. What are your stories, how did it go for you? |
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I've had two out and a couple other extractions, all with local and no complications.
Treat it like a minor surgery, take it seriously. Follow the DO and don't suck, spit, smoke,etc. Bite on the gauze and do the salt water rinse religiously (remember to not spit  )
Whether you get a general or not, take the dope they give you afterwards, the extraction will hurt. Soft food is your friend. Make sure you have a couple of days worth of pudding, applesauce, mashed potatoes, etc. ready to go at home. Take it easy for about 48 hours after the procedure. Stay home and chill out, eat your applesauce and just relax. All of mine had healthy roots and were fully formed adult teeth. None of them came out easily. I had my pretty blonde dentist and her sexy Chinese friend from the next station over both grinding on one of my lowers. It was hot, I was trying really hard not to laugh when she started to pant and grunt. |
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I had all 4 taken out at once courtesy of the USMC... about 7 weeks ago.
Took about 2 days to get over the pain. Hydrocodine + Tylenol helped alot. Matter o fact - my gums back there have been irritated all week 
O yea, pray you don't get nerve damage.... google that one. |
I had one cut out a few years back, local numbing...... If the sound of the saw doesn't get you the crunching, grinding, pulling, blood, ect will Seriously, hope they knock you out, for your sake.
The recovery wasn't bad, took the gauze out, no bleeding, drooled all over myself for half the day, but was eating almost normal by days end. little swelling. Only thing it hurt really was my wallet 
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Had mine done at age 31. Opted to go completely under. They said it would take 30 minutes IIRC. Woke up an hour later. The oral surgeon told me I was banned from his office because of how hard they were to get out (and none were impacted). I had to have a couple more stitches than normal because of it. Thanked God I opted to go under and walked out. I was supervising a new roof going on my house the next day. I second the do as your told for post op. I had dry socket as a teenager. I remember them shoving medicated gauze into the space left by the tooth. The stuff had to stay in there all day and it tasted terrible and drinking any liquid made it worse. |
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Quoted: I've had two out and a couple other extractions, all with local and no complications. Treat it like a minor surgery, take it seriously. Follow the DO and don't suck, spit, smoke,etc. Bite on the gauze and do the salt water rinse religiously (remember to not spit )Whether you get a general or not, take the dope they give you afterwards, the extraction will hurt. Soft food is your friend. Make sure you have a couple of days worth of pudding, applesauce, mashed potatoes, etc. ready to go at home. Take it easy for about 48 hours after the procedure. Stay home and chill out, eat your applesauce and just relax. All of mine had healthy roots and were fully formed adult teeth. None of them came out easily. I had my pretty blonde dentist and her sexy Chinese friend from the next station over both grinding on one of my lowers. It was hot, I was trying really hard not to laugh when she started to pant and grunt. This is pretty good advice. But the bolded part sounds like she's doing it wrong. I extracted a few wisdom teeth earlier this week. Whether they're difficult or not depends on whether they're impacted, and if they are, how they are impacted. If they're fully erupted, it's not much different than having any other molar extracted. IM(limited)E upper wisdom teeth are usually a little easier than lowers because they tend to not have as much bone around them as the lowers, but it's still not usually a big deal. Damage to the nerves around the teeth is possible, but doesn't happen very often. |
| Got all 4 of mine out a week ago yesterday. I'm eating normally all ready, but gotta rinse out the sockets if I get food stuck in it. I was knocked out for the surgery, woke up with gauze in my mouth, and went home all drugged up. I stayed up for about an hour, then went to bed and slept for longer then I can remember. I ended up drooling blood on my pillow, because I was too drugged up to realise it. The gauze didn't help when I was sleeping. I had just got done with a 12 hour night shift before the surgery though, so you might not even be tired when you get done with yours. I basically didn't even need the percacet they gave me. I took it anyway to stay totally numb, but I mighta just had a "tooth ache" if anything. The only downside, is one of my nerves was nicked or something, the right side of my jaw line, and under the ride side of my lip is numb still. I'm slowly regaining feeling, so I do believe it's healing. All-in-all, it was a very smooth operation, next to no pain what-so-ever, especially with the strong perscriptions they should give you. |
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Getting wisdom teeth pulled SUCKS ass. I was awake during it and just had my gums numbed. I could hear the teeth snapping and breaking as the dentist was pulling them. They broke a couple of times and he had to drill in spots to get better grips. It was a freaking nightmare. The sound I'll never forget.. That was the easy part.. Its the recovery that sucks the worse. I bled for days. Do not suck out of a straw omfg, that was a bad idea. If you can just dont eat anything. Drink as little of anything as possible. Load up on painkillers and just try to sleep as much as you can. My experience sucked ass. |
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It depends on how/why they need to be pulled.
My first one no biggie.The next two had to be taken out by a oral surgeon, they were mostly under the gum pushing forward not up.He gave me enough dope, to not make it that bad. I ended up getting dry socket that was worse than having them pulled. |
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Had four bone impacted pulled at the same time with just local anesthetic. Everything went pretty well, but by the middle of the third I was beginning to get nauseous from the vibrations and noises from the powered equipment reverberating through the skull. A little O2, and a few minutes later he continued.
Not very much pain after the procedure, took a couple Vicodin and everything went fine. |
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an addendum to my previous post: your attitude has a huge effect on how extractions go for you. For example, I extracted the same tooth on two different patients today (lower left second molar). Both women, both healthy, both teeth were being extracted because of gross decay and were causing the patients significant pain. Patient #1 was very nervous from the beginning and started yelling when I gave her the injection to get her numb. I ended up giving her nitrous (probably should have done it to begin with, but didn't realize just how scared she was). Still, she kept moving and making noises as I extracted the tooth. It came out in one piece with no problems other than her anxiety. The whole thing took over an hour and she said how awful it was and that she was never getting another tooth extracted (fat chance given her oral hygiene and the state of her other teeth). Patient #2 had a couple teeth extracted (not by me) a couple weeks ago and was told to come back to get another one extracted today. She was calm and very cooperative; didn't like the injection, but nobody does, and she toughed it out. In her case, the tooth broke in two pieces (which actually makes it easier to get out in some cases), but when it happened she didn't panic. the extraction was simple and went very well. She was in the chair (from reviewing med history/taking blood pressure to giving post op instructions and walking her out) for a little under half an hour and the extraction itself took <10 minutes. The moral of the story is JUST RELAX. An extraction (or 4 of them) is not an every day thing, and it won't be a normal experience. You'll probably hear some cracking and feel a lot of pressure (you shouldn't feel pain) as the tooth is extracted, and you'll be sore for a day or two under normal circumstances. But I know everyone here is a HSLD operator, so you should all be able to tough it out . Take it easy for a day or two, follow the post op instructions, and most importantly (I can't stress this enough) WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T SMOKE or drink from a straw for at least 3 or 4 days (preferably a week). fwiw, if you hear people say how they had IV sedation for extractions and puked/felt like shit for the rest of the day; they felt like that because of the anesthesia, not the extractions. Just so people don't think I'm completely talking out of my ass, I'll be graduating from dental school this coming May and have extracted a few dozen teeth, including plenty of wisdom teeth. There are a few practicing dentists here who have a ton more experience than I do, but I'm not totally ignorant. |
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I was 27 and one of my wisdom teeth got some kind of infection. It hurt so badly, I could barely open my mouth. I was treated for the infection and got them all removed at once. I remember it being a fairly quick removal. The dentist said something like "Ah, we love the smell of drilled (or something to that effect) teeth in the morning." From what I've heard, it can either go real well, or be hell on earth. Since it went well for me, that means it has to go badly for someone else to even the average out. Good luck! |
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