Posted: 7/8/2006 11:42:35 PM EDT
| Impacted wisdom tooth and a cracked moler. Cannot seem to find an oral surgeon to pull them out in the next month, everyone is booked. Percs are my new friends. |
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damn... sorry to hear that, I have a hard time thinking that there is no one avail.  I hate to see people suffer through pain needlesly. I dont know what your insurance plan is, but I do know that on the ambulance that if it were an emergency that Harborview Medical Center is where we send out emergent cases for dental problems... |
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Robert Dixey, DDS East Side Oral Surgery Assoc 15 S Grady Way # 312 Renton, Washington 98055 Phone: (425) 226-4000 I had my wisdom teeth extracted by him when he practiced in Bellevue three years ago. I told him I wanted to be knocked out when I saw him at the consult. He said, "Don't worry, we've got the good stuff." One week later, I went in, got seated, the nurse injected some shit in my left hand that burned up to my wrist and I woke up an hour and a half later in another room. The following week, I got checked out and was told that my "...stitches were doing nicely..." What stitches? I was prescribed Roxycodone liquid. I took one dose when I got home and that was it. This Dr. has the touch. When you look at him and talk to him, he doesn't seem like a doctor in the traditional sense. In fact, he seems like he'd fit in nicely at an LCR event. I got an appointment with him on fairly short notice. |
Tough it out dude. Pain is weakness leaving the body! I stay the fuck away from dentists and oral surgeons. When I had my wisdom teeth removed it didn't turn out very well. I think the dude was drunk. I had impacted wisdom teeth. When I woke up from the anestesia my jaw was wired shut because the MF broke it when he pulled my teeth. To make matters worse the SOB sutured my tongue when he sewed up the crater where my tooth used to be. So I wake up with a broken jaw, my mouth wired shut, and my tongue sewed to the inside of my mouth. I told the Mother Fucker that I couldn't move my tongue. He said "it's just the anestesia, I'll be ok in the morning." The next day I still couldn't move my tongue. My wife called the fucktard and I got in to see him that morning. He used diagonal cutters to snip the wires between my teeth and used needle nose pliers to pull the wires out. It hurt like hell! Then the dumb fucker looks in my mouth and says "by golly I guess I did suture your tongue!" Then he went on to say that it was no big deal because he had done thousands of these operations. He then un snipped my tongue and wired my jaw back together (without aneastesia) It hurt like hell. He should have at least given me some valium or nitrous oxide. I should have sued the SOB but it was such a depressing experience that I just wanted to get it over and forget about it. I know this sounds bad but it's a true story! 
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To coin a phrase used by someone else. Actually....... The breaking of a persons jaw is quite common when removing impacted wisdom teeth. The tounge sewing is not. That sounds like it was very painful. If you don't mind making a trip down to Lakewood I have a dentist I go to that I highly recommend. He's a former Special Forces guy who really does good work. I can give you the number if you want it. |
Holly Shit, did you go to a Military Dentist for that? I had my Face busted open by the but end of an M-60 during training and had a similar experience with the whole busted jaw/wire cutters deal. Not alot of fun. |
Former SF, that's another reason to stay away from him!  An Army dentist would scare the living shit out of me! There's the Right way, the Wrong way and the Army way. Here's your anestesia troop, take 2 asprins and drive on. Charlie Mike!
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No... No.. This guy is a top notch dentist. He was an 18 Delta in the service and then got out and went to Dental School. Everything I have ever had done by him has been pain free. |
At least Gibby didn't use the liberal clich'e "I feel your pain!"
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I'm not interested in taking you to the ER because you broke your jaw in a botched at-home surgery session. Besides, the percocet does wonderful things for you.... 
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Percocet is good shit I was in a similiar position in May.. was memorial day weekend, friday night and an impacted wisdom tooth was killing me. No dentist would see me Friday, and the pain got so bad I had to go into Kaiser, 'cause a sleepless weekend would've been hell, especially waiting till Tuesday... Turns out I'm allergic to Vicodin so I got percocet... I swear the doctor must've prescribed enuogh to last a month, two pills every 6 or 8 hours, I was only taking one and it was making it feel just peachy.. After I got the teeth pulled, doc said take 800mg of Motrin if the pain got too bad  Needless to say I was thankful for the rather generous prescription, motrin does nothing for me 
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This is very similar to my wisdom teeth extraction experience. The way to go, especially since my wife told me that for one of the teeth, the doctor had to break it into little pieces in my jaw and go fishing for every little bit, take an xray, check it, go get more, rinse, repeat, etc.
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| Well, I just had my first bad experience with an Army dentist. He was a new resident, I think, and had a hard time numbing me up. Starting drilling before I was numb, it hurt like the dickens. Then he numbed me up more, hit the nerve, and now I'm still numb, 4 hours later. Plus a slightly sore jaw, and a headache. Rather annoying. |
Fresh from dental school. |
