wisdom teeth extractions

I had all 4 of mine taken out almost 4 years ago. They had all come in but I hadn't been to the dentist in over 5 years (pretty stupid on my part).

After getting my current job and finally getting some dental insurance, I finally went to a dentist (this guy is around my age and is one of the nicest people I have ever met and he has become my regular dentist now). It was no surprise that I had like 7 or 8 cavities but 4 of them were in my wisdom teeth, so he recommended me to have them taken out.

I am too much of a p***y to have him just numb me up, so I went the oral surgeon route who actually knocks you out. Of course, you can't drive, so I had to be taken to the oral surgeon and also I couldn't wear my contact lenses that day, either. I remember getting stuck with the needle in my arm and for about a minute, I saw these blurred images walking around.

Then the next thing I know, I hear these 2 people say, "Now, on 3, one, two, THREE!!". It was one of the surgeon's assistants along with my mother trying to lift me up into her vehicle.

They stuffed my mouth with gauze and I pretty much slept the entire day. They gave me painkillers (pills) and a couple of suppositories. If I recall correctly, I think I was eating solid foods after a week maybe 2 weeks. My biggest fear was the dreaded dry socket. A dry socket is when you get food in the crevice that has yet to heal from the tooth getting pulled. The nerve is exposed, and until it heals, it is a little cranky about food particles hanging around it. The pain was described to me as very intense, only surpassed by having a kidney stone. So, daNasty, I WOULD be extremely careful about what I eat after having this done. Rule of thumb: if you can feel around there with your tongue and it still feels tender, then don't even THINK about eating something solid around there. Thankfully, I never got a dry socket but I was very careful about it.

The pain wasn't too bad as there was only 1 time that I needed to take a suppository. Let me tell you something - after I took that thing, I was out like a light. It was incredible and scary at the same time! Good luck.

 

Go remove it now. My upper molar cut on my lower gums when i talk and the pain got so bad i went to have both upper and lower molars removed even though the christmas break was just around the corner.

The dentist put me on local anaesthetic and after the op I took painkillers so the whole process was pretty much painless.

 

I ought to have mine removed. I have dental insurance. They're coming in slowly. Some are at kind of weird angles. The ones on the left side will probably be OK, but on the right side one is at a strange angle and the other isn't in yet. Every dentist I see (when I get around to it... like so many people in their 20's, I procrastinate on these things) says I should get them removed. I have insurance. I'm just not looking forward to the pain since the teeth feel fine most of the time.

If they do, they had better partially knock me out. I had oral surgery once and they just gave me a lot of nitrous oxide, and that worked. Afterward... mmm, Vicodin. I got to play with that after having some sort of weird abscess/ staph infection a few months ago. Actually, the Vicodin wasn't as exciting as some people claim. Just, if you stop doing stuff and lie down for a second, you'll go to sleep.

 

I had a pair removed at age 45 and the other pair at age 49.

Removing them is a piece of cake. Regarding the last set that came out, the top one took about 30 seconds, the bottom one took about 30 minutes and my lower jaw was sore for about 6 months-- bruising I think.

However no pain is worse than dental pain so get those bad boys out of there!

 

Suppository? Really? What kind of dentist did YOU go to?

 

It took me two weeks to get over the aching.

Not a good thing if your stomach is weak either. Lots of bloody guaze the first few days.

 

had 4 removed in the chair, it took longer for me to wait for the numbing injections than it did from him to remove the tooth, all were not exposed yet and one shattered while he was doing it... he was a master... didn't feel anything and had the classic Paul Simon Graceland cd playing the background

didn't really swell up at all and had minimal pain, had mine done on a monday arvo and refereed basketball on thursday afternoon

everybody i know who had theirs removed in the hospital/getting completely knocked seem to have a much tougher time, especially with swelling, brusing and pain, not surprising seeing they have open your mouth for you to get the job done

 

Isabel,

Lets get this over with. Some pain for a few days and then go on with life.

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Actually, dry socket is when, for whatever reason, the blood clot that's supposed to form and take hold in your now vacant tooth socket doesn't form and/or take hold. Eating solid food, sucking through a straw, and smoking, along with various other no-no's, can cause dry socket if done too soon after the extraction. Apparently your tooth socket has lots of highly sensitive nerve endings, and if there's no blood clot to cover up and protect those nerve endings from even the slightest air disturbance, they are left to flap around freely in the wind, causing excrutiating pain.

In my case, it was me being a dumbass and eating greasy solid food the day after the surgery. A couple days later, sound asleep in my bed, all of a sudden my eyes just open, and I'm wide awake. I'm like, whoa, and I wonder what time it is, so I look at the clock and it says 4 a.m., and I wonder to myself "What the hell am I doing up? And why the hell am I wide awake?", then, half-a-second later, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH! HOLY SH*T THAT'S WHY THE F*CK I'M AWAKE! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Let me tell you brothaman, that sh*t is some of the worst pain I've ever experienced. After a few minutes the pain crackles its way up the sides of your head to your temples. It felt like my skull was cracking like an egg. It's like freaking torture, man. All I could do was get up and take two Advil, and suffer through the pain as I waited for them to kick in.

I repeated this for a couple more nights. Each night before bed I'd take two Advil. But since the effect of the Advil only lasts about four hours, by around 3-4 am the pain would literally wake me up again. and I'm talkin wide freakin awake.

During the day, I would take Advil about every 4 hours to kill the pain. So a full week after the surgery, I'm still feeling the pain = dry sockets. Apparently any pain should only last a day or two after the surgery.

So I go back to the oral surgeon, he takes a look, and says, yep, you got dry sockets. So he fills in the sockets with some sort of camphor soaked paper strips, which serve as artifical substitutes for the AWOL blood clots, and my pain is releived. About a week after that the papers were removed, no problems after that.

Anyway, the point is, if you have them extracted, don't be a dumbass like me. Follow the post-surgery instructions as much as humanly possible. You could save yourself a lot of pain. I'm talking a buttload of pain here, buddy.

Good luck!

 

Chipped one of my wisdom teeth when I was working about a year and a half ago, it began to rot and there were many nights in a row where I was in constant and unspeakable pain, causing me to lose a lot of sleep. I finally had it removed a few months ago, it went smoothly and after it stopped bleeding it was fine. I can now eat mostly anything I want again, it was really the worst pain in the world and I felt like killing myself a few times when it had me up all night.

 

I would suggest that the earlier you get them pulled out, the better. I avoided the dentist for too much of my adult life. A couple of months ago I got the courage to go to the dentist and my teeth were surprisingly fine. No cavaties....except for this: because I waited too long to have my wisdom teeth pulled out, the bottom wisdom teeth began growing into the teeth beside them. This means that I would have had to get two root canals to save the two teeth beside my wisdom teeth. I just had them all pulled out. It sucks, but if you love mashed potatoes, gravy and cole slaw like I do, it is all bearable.

 

I had a real bad time with mine. My brother's wisdom teeth had been fairly easy to extract, and we were kind of hoping that mine would be, too. So we went to our family dentist who also did the extractions for his patients. The top ones came out literally in less than two minutes...but when he was working on one of the bottom ones, he went a solid 45 minutes and the numbing was WAY worn off and he was still going. It got to the point where he threw down his utensil-thing and said "I'm taking a break for a minute" and had to leave the room, he was so visibly frustrated. He ended up having to drill the tooth all the way down in half, which took quite a while, and then prying out each side. I had blood all over my chest and quite a bit of pain. It required the same process on the other side of my mouth.
I understand that my experience was worse than most's, but the dentist actually prescribed some painkillers that were AMAZING--I remember watching Rockets games and arguing with these weird animals that weren't really there about Cuttino's shot selection. Amazing stuff.
But it did take me about two weeks before I could eat solid food again--it was almost tougher to lay off those painkillers.

 

Heh - it was actually an oral surgeon and I was surprised, too, but I am glad that he did prescribe them!

Leave it to Mango to find an old thread about this topic, lol! It seems like my first post in this thread is exactly the SAME as the one in the other one!

 

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Went to le dentiste today and they decided my teef need to be extrancted; it's not urgent or anything, but they do push it.

I don't want to be 8 teeth short.


So you know what I told them?

I said. verbatim:

"No thanks! I'll risk the infection and whatever else comes with it."


Yes, yes, I'll probably eventually get it done, but not any time soon. I refuse to do it during winter break; I refuse to do it next summer (as if I have plans).

So maybe two years down the line.


Oh, and they found a small cavity in my upper 'niner' or whatever their dental talk is. Not a big deal, but I guess brushing my teeth like only 10 times this summer doesn't help. I'm usually very good with it, but guess no this time.

Just observational, but when the dentist goes through your teeth after the hygenist cleans them, they always talk in a serious voice and use 'codewords' about the teeth; you don't know if it's good or bad.

Ahhhh, teeth are overrated anyway.

 

Sorry for the bump. Kind of on edge here.

On Wednesday, I had 4 wisdom teeth removed. The lower ones were partially impacted and partially erupted, so obviously I had to see the oral surgeon for this.

I haven't been in much pain, but have steadily been taking antibiotics and pain killers. Only thing I'm on edge about are dry sockets.

I don't smoke or haven't drank anything through a straw, but man oh man, I'm trying so hard to prevent dry sockets.

I hear it's an unbearable pain, and I'm trying to be delicate with the foods I'm eating. Are there any tips that y'all have regarding this and how to have a speedy recovery?

Honestly, I have felt no pain at all, only discomfort. This is the second day post procedure, but I read that dry sockets tend to occur 3-5 days after the surgery.

Would appreciate any advice/help!

 

I don't remember being told about dry sockets post surgery. Must have been because they expected me to follow their post procedure to the T. My post procedure experience consisted on constant gauze changes, antibiotics, and saltwater cleanses (with a pressure syringe). I think the saltwater really helped with the healing. However, they were pretty strong on the fact that I shouldn't keep up with it for more than 2-3 days.

Anyway, I healed up to normal in less than a week. I think listening to your doctor should take care of you. But if not, maybe call them about trying saltwater gargles!

 

I have a syringe given to me but the surgeons instructions are to only use it 1 week after the procedure. Also, the surgeon prescribed chlorhexidine mouthwash, which I use twice daily.

It's crazy how there is no real consistency between surgeons as to how to prevent dry sockets. My worry is that rinsing with the mouthwash can cause that blood clot to dislodge. Same with the use of the syringe.

 

I had all 4 pulled about 25 years ago.

Take the gas. Take the needle. Get a ride home, find a couch. Take whatever pills they give you.

I smoked a little bowl about 12 hours later and it just about sent me to Mars.

Dry socket shouldn't be a problem, it's rare, but if it happens you will know.