Crap Wisdom Teeth are gonna need to be extracted

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Who has had this? Is it gonna suck as bad as I think it will?
 
get a DDS/MD to do it. Mine was painless, they knocked me out....i had zero pain (didn't even take a vicodin) and I was out drinking later that night.

:cheers:

some people have horror stories, just get someone good to do it and you should be cool.
 
get a DDS/MD to do it. Mine was painless, they knocked me out....i had zero pain (didn't even take a vicodin) and I was out drinking later that night.

:cheers:

some people have horror stories, just get someone good to do it and you should be cool.

not even pain after the procedure? Thats where I can see when it would hurt.. I was watching youtube videos of extracions and you could see the guys God damm Jaw bone they tore him up lol.
 
It sucks...how many are you taking out? two or four? I had four taken out all at once. I think the surgeon screwed up because I had the worst pain of my life a full two weeks after the procedure. I literally would crumble to the ground in the bathroom and just lay on the floor wanting to kill myself.


...Other than that its great!
 
It sucks...how many are you taking out? two or four? I had four taken out all at once. I think the surgeon screwed up because I had the worst pain of my life a full two weeks after the procedure. I literally would crumble to the ground in the bathroom and just lay on the floor wanting to kill myself.


...Other than that its great!

oh great lol. its 2 for me fortunately. but remembering the pain after my couple surgeries from last year I'm bracing for pain.. but not as bad as back surgery I'm stoked for that lol
 
Meh, shouldnt be too bad...Both being extracted on the same side?
 
not even pain after the procedure? Thats where I can see when it would hurt.. I was watching youtube videos of extracions and you could see the guys God damm Jaw bone they tore him up lol.

I felt high as shit after the anesthesia....no pain or soreness whatsoever. I had 3 impacted wisdom teeth.
 
Had all four done. Three were a piece of cake. One got dry socket after the extraction and gave me real problems for a couple of weeks.
 
Had all four done. Three were a piece of cake. One got dry socket after the extraction and gave me real problems for a couple of weeks.

great more stuff to worry about? lol whats dry socket?
 
great more stuff to worry about? lol whats dry socket?

Doesn't happen that often, but sometimes the clot that forms after a tooth is extracted gets lost or doesn't seal the socket completely, letting air get to the nerves. Not fun.
 
I had 4 removed. It was painful with meds, but was only crappy for a few days.
 
Its weird, I even had a smoothie right after the operation and my clot was sucked through the straw (I was so high i don't remember them telling me not to use a straw)....no dry socket. i guess i was really fucking lucky.
 
Its weird, I even had a smoothie right after the operation and my clot was sucked through the straw (I was so high i don't remember them telling me not to use a straw)....no dry socket. i guess i was really fucking lucky.

lol that sounds kinda gross
 
Just reading this thread makes my teeth ache.

I know.. my gums feel significantly more swollen :( make me a get well soon thread tomorrow morning at 10:00 lol
 
Who has had this? Is it gonna suck as bad as I think it will?

That depends. Swelling and pain depends on what your jaw and teeth are like as much as the doctor. The older you the greater the chance for swelling and pain.

Dental procedures are often crap, and are the source of all kinds of effects and problems, some not showing up for many years. There is nothing worse than dental work - other than not doing the dental work.

To minimize the chance for problems:

Make sure that you have to have the teeth removed. That would be a good first step. Right? You probably do, so:

Get a good surgeon who does this procedure a lot and has a good reputation. You don't want a hack hacking you.

If you know you can tolerate being knocked out, go that route for least horrifying experience. As you saw on video, it often takes a lot of work to get those suckers out.

Demand that the surgeon let you stay in recovery for several hours. Do not get up, do not move around, do not rinse out a lot, etc. You want the clot to fully form and set before you get up and get in the car. A good clot minimizes the chances you develop anaerobic bacteria pockets, dry socket (hurts real bad!) and infections.

Don't smoke. Stop right now, if you do. Don't take asprin, fish oil or other blood thinning products leading up to the procedure.

Take your damn antibiotics as per instructions. Make sure you don't consume stuff that will cancel the antibiotics out. Read the instructions. And after taking the antibiotics take probiotics to replenish your friendly intenstinal bacteria.

At home, don't drink with a straw, don't spit, don't rinse very much and do it gently, don't smoke, eat only soft foods, brush very carefully, don't touch the wound area.

If you want to minimize the chance for swelling and pain, stay in bed, propped up with pillows (do not lie down), ice your jaw.

Good luck.
 
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My bottom two wisdom teeth were almost completely horizontal and partial eruptions...They had to cut my gums up and do a lot of tugging to get them out(I was awake, nitrous oxide). Pretty intense pain for 4 or 5 days. Make sure you get at least percocet if you have this done. My top two were pretty vertical and were pretty pain free compared to the bottom. I'm sure a lot of that was just the intensity of the bottom two redirecting the pain. Good luck keeping your tounge out of the new holes in your mouth btw!:)
 
I know.. my gums feel significantly more swollen :( make me a get well soon thread tomorrow morning at 10:00 lol
Don't worry too much about it. Be prepared for pain, don't be anxious about it. Wash 5 PKs down with some straight vodka... That should do the trick.

Good luck!
 
I had all 4 displaced while conscious with just a local. It didn't hurt at all but the pressure used to push my teeth out made my jaw hurt for 2 weeks. The holes in my mouth bled for several hours. I thought I was gonna need a blood transfusion after about 8 hours of spitting blood.

The best part was driving down the street after I got it done with a mouth full of gauze and drooling blood and spit all over the front of my shirt because I couldn't feel my face. I was talking like a walrus for a while but it was all good the next day.

The biggest worry is that the holes get infected. And no, that's not a perverted joke.
 
I had all 4 displaced while conscious with just a local. It didn't hurt at all but the pressure used to push my teeth out made my jaw hurt for 2 weeks. The holes in my mouth bled for several hours. I thought I was gonna need a blood transfusion after about 8 hours of spitting blood.

The best part was driving down the street after I got it done with a mouth full of gauze and drooling blood and spit all over the front of my shirt because I couldn't feel my face. I was talking like a walrus for a while but it was all good the next day.

The biggest worry is that the holes get infected. And no, that's not a perverted joke.
I lol'd reading that whole post. Bravo.
 
Two tips:

1) Milkshakes.
2) While I'm not a big fan of being knocked out (I've never been under total anesthesia before), this was one time may have opted to. When I got mine out - just 2 of 4 - they instead decided to shoot me up with no less than 10 Novocaine shots. I am not making this up. They then took out what can only be described as..well..pliers and proceed to open my mouth and wrench that sucker back and forth. Now, the tension on one's jaw, neck, etc. is bad enough, but to hear the tooth/jaw whatever the hell actually cracking and then see it come out. Not really my favorite memory. And the taste of metal pliers in the mouth just added to the fun.

If you have a choice, get all 4 out otherwise they will harass you until the end of time to remove the remaining ones. And I survived afterwards on just Tylenol 3 with very little pain. I think mostly because they cracked all the nerves in my jaw.
 
After reading all these horror stories, I'm a little embarrassed at how easy mine were to pull. I had all four done (two at a time with a month between) and it wasn't much different from getting other teeth pulled. Just a bit of novacaine, some gauze and a really numb mouth. The one thing I do remember vividly, however, was the sound. That snap, crackle and pop was a bit freaky.
 
I had all 4 of mine done. I wish they knocked me out, but they gave me some gas and gave me injections in my gum to numb everything so all i heard were my teeth breaking (not a pleasant sound). They gave me vicodin at home and for the first day it was hell and i took it at every possible time (you have to wait certain hours for the tylenol). By the 2nd day I was pretty good with a little soreness. No real problem.
 
Haven't had my wisdom teeth yet, but in high school I had a dental surgery because the permanent teeth right alongside my 2 front teeth weren't coming out and were growing horizontally over my front teeth.

They gave me the nitrous and never knocked me out, so I was awake during the whole thing. Definitely one of the top 5 worst experiences of my life because they started digging where the Novocaine wasn't working.
 

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