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Wisdom Teeth

tincat2 said:
i remember that experience well. the two bottom ones were the problem so i went in and sat in the chair and got the numbing shot. after a few minutes, the guy comes in , sees that things are numb, and says, 'are you ready?', and i say, 'yeah, go ahead". from below my limit of vision he raises a hammer and chisel(i think, omg), lines things up and gives three quick hits, then three more, then three more and more. stuff is splattering around and it's beginning to hurt for real and sweat is coming down my face(i'm thinking, this is the state of dental "science' in 1970-a hammer and chisel?). then it's over and the debris is being sucked up and i'm gathering myself up and out the door . figured i'd wait till i got home to take the codeine they grudgingly handed out-big mistake; get on top of the pain, don't try to catch up w/it. pulled bits of tooth out of my mouth for weeks, but was glad to be done w/the aggravation of impacted wisdom teeth and glad the guy didn't fool around-he used the right tool for the job and got it done. my brother had to get up out of the chair-mid procedure- and drive 5 miles to a dental surgeon's office to complete his deal. nowadays, things are better; i had a bone spur chiseled out of the roof of my mouth a few years ago and had the sleep thing they do and i didn't feel or know a thing. do the right thing w/the post op care and stuff should be ok.
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Good god almighty!

When I made the appointment with the oral surgeon through my regular dentist, I told him I wanted a local anesthetic. When I met with the oral surgeon for my consultation, he's looking at the paperwork and he asked me: "What's this crap about you wanting a local?". I told him I'd heard about how sick you can get after a general. He said: "You're hearing old tapes, the stuff we use now is much better. You won't have any problems. Besides, trust me, you don't want to be awake while I'm standing on your chest, slamming your head back and forth, and smoke coming out of your mouth from me sawing your teeth into slices so I can get them out.".

Ow. So, I opted for the general. Smart move on my part.:D

So we're getting all set up, he's got a hypo in my arm and he's resting his hand on it. The nurse is bustling around behind him with the cart with all the steel implements of death on it, and the doc asks me if I can feel anything yet. I said not really, but I could tell that I needed to pay attention to make my words come out ok.

Then the nurse leaned over and asked me if I was ready to sit up.

Two hours of my life, gone in a heartbeat!! I never felt a thing, never knew a thing. After an hour or so to recover, the doc gives me my instructions, complete with a finger pointed straight at my nose:

"Listen up!!! This is your prescription for the pain medication. You will go straight from here to a drugstore, you will get this prescription filled, you will go straight home, and you will take your first dose. Got it? If you don't take the first dose right away, but instead you wait until it starts to hurt and then take it, by the time it starts to work you're going to be in a world of ****. Got it?".

Yessir, yessir, got it. I love medical people who don't beat around the bush.:yes: He also told me to get some ice packs so I could put them on the outside of my jaws. So, I got the drugs, went home and took the first one, and took a nap with the ice bags on my jaws. Took them on the required schedule for the next day, and by the end of that day I felt so good I just switched to aspirin, and that was the end of it.

Never a hint of pain, no discomfort, no problems at all. Yes, the rinsing is a bit of a mess for the first day, but you really have to do it. He also told me to stick with soft foods for a full week. "And NO TORTILLA CHIPS!! GOT IT??".

Yessir, yessir, got it.:D
 
HAd three out when I was 22 30 years ago on Novacane and Nitrous. Had the 4th out last Saturday. Went quick it was a total mess. socket did OK never took anything nor any drinking kept my mouth shut pretty much the first two days after. Now a week later there is a Point on the rear outside corner of the last molar on that side trying to chew up my cheek like new braces would. Dealing with that. But my Jaw feels much better.

Jesse has the reading material shown up yet???
 
Had all four done in one sitting at 16 with local Novocaine.:no: Two were impacted and the dentist drilled a big hole in them then screwed this deal into the hole to break them up so he could dig out the pieces. After everything was done he asked if I was ok to stand up and I said sure. When I did I passed plum out.:D
 
Mark W. said:
HAd three out when I was 22 30 years ago on Novacane and Nitrous. Had the 4th out last Saturday. Went quick it was a total mess. socket did OK never took anything nor any drinking kept my mouth shut pretty much the first two days after. Now a week later there is a Point on the rear outside corner of the last molar on that side trying to chew up my cheek like new braces would. Dealing with that. But my Jaw feels much better.

Jesse has the reading material shown up yet???
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that "point" your feeling is likely the edge of the socket in your jaw,i had the same thing.it was a little disconcerting for really quite a while after i had my last one out,it felt very sharp,like it could and would cut right through my gums which seemed perilously thin over it...just give your gums some time to fill in the socket and it'll likely slowly dissappear without you really realizing..takes a while tho
 
Seems like I was squirting out the sockets in mine for half that summer..The top ones closed up quickly, but the bottom ones didn't. There was some SERIOUSLY Funkay Chit what come out of 'em, too...My guy told me he was pretty sure he got all the busted-up pieces of mine, but that sometimes they'd miss a sliver & it would "work its way" out...Later. Gulp. Didn't happen in my case, thank the Lord. Think that "Squirting" syringe w/the curved end is STILL in my parents' house, under the sink in the bathroom I used back in those days...Never had the heart to throw it out...Been 34 years now...
 
Both of my kids had all four taken out when they were teenagers.

It left a big gaping hole in my wallet ($4500 combined) and the pain still hasn't gone away.
 
A broken piece of tooth can cause REAL trouble guys. I had a tooth busted up in a car wreck once and the dentist missed a hunk when he pulled it. Somehow it got infected deep inside the jaw without me even knowing it. The infection ended up in the mitral valve of my heart and nearly kilt me. The first doc I had was telling me to choose between a stainless or pork valve for open heart surgery that he was scheduling.:yikes: I got a second opinion at KU med, from an old heart doctor with a gray beard.:yes: He said the infection had been killed by the antibiotics I had been injecting in myself for 6 weeks, and what the other doc was taking for infection was only scar tissue from where the infection had been. Endocarditis is what they call it, and it's easy to get from dental infections.
 
I've had mine taken out one at a time over the years. Went to work a half hour later each time. Still have one left.
 
Had left side upper and lower removed about 12 years ago because lower was infected. Family dentist had no trouble removing the upper but worked on lower for about 45 minutes before breaking it off at the root. Sent me on to an oral surgeon and after taking antiobiotics for a couple of weeks the remnants were finally taken out. Aside from the pain of having an exposed root, I couldn't eat anything solid for three weeks. When it finally healed I went out and had a huge t-bone steak, one of the best tasting steaks I ever had. Leave wisdon tooth extractions to the oral surgeons.
 
My wisdom teeth never appeared.Freaks my dentist everytime. Onfortunately,at age 53,I do not sshow any wisdom!

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My dentist told me that wisdom teeth & all their associated troubles are by-products of human evolution...Our jaws aren't really quite long enuff to accomodate them anymore, so some people don't grow them. Some, they only come in on the top or the bottom. Even if they do come in, w/o trouble, they tend to give more trouble than other teeth, & dentists will remove them. That may be BS, but that's what the guy told me.
 
Had all 4 of mine pulled out 30 years ago. They put me to sleep and woke me up once it was over. I had to irrigate the sockets with a curved tip syringe like Sandy had above and chew forward for a while, but that aside, it was no big deal.
 
Our dentist said we wore them faster before we had dentistry so we needed them to replace the other molars we wore down.
 
Mark W. said:
HAd three out when I was 22 30 years ago on Novacane and Nitrous. Had the 4th out last Saturday. Went quick it was a total mess. socket did OK never took anything nor any drinking kept my mouth shut pretty much the first two days after. Now a week later there is a Point on the rear outside corner of the last molar on that side trying to chew up my cheek like new braces would. Dealing with that. But my Jaw feels much better.

Jesse has the reading material shown up yet???
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Not yet Mark. I will be watching for it.

As for my jaw it is just a little bit sore but nothing really to complain about. I think it stems more from the dentist jerking my jaw around to get the first one out but after reading some of the experiences some of you have described then I really don't have anything to complain about. So far so good.
 
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