Wisdom teeth

[BrAinPaiNt]

I had to have all four pulled. They each had to be cracked then pulled out. I was put under for that wonderful experience. I think I couldn't eat solid food for a month because the holes had to be stitched shut. I also couldn't open my mouth for a month because my jaw was swollen.

Other than the time I was left for dead in a ditch, getting my wisdom teeth pulled had to be the worst experience in my life.

That would suck.

I had my top two pulled at the same time and I did not even have to take Tylenol after it. I think the only thing that bothered me was eating some noodles later that day and one of them managed to get up around the socket and the salt from it burned a tad. But guess I was on the one end of lucky and you were on the extreme other end of it.

Actually just felt good to get them out as both were cutting into the sides of my jaws.

 

[kapolani]

But guess I was on the one end of lucky and you were on the extreme other end of it.

This is what pisses me off about my life.

I rarely got hurt growing up. I rarely got sick.

But, when I did, it was like the Superbowl of getting hurt or sick. I couldn't half *** it. I had to go all the way to fubar'd.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled 20 years ago. I still remember the experience like a swift kick in the nads.

 

[kapolani]

All four of mine had to be cracked too but they didn't put me under. I could hear my teeth breaking and feel the massive amount of pressure they had to use. While I didn't feel any pain, the whole process was terrifying. My speedy recovery was then derailed by a case of dry socket that lasted about a week.

Awful experience.

I woke up in the middle of it.

I still remember seeing the oral surgeon up on my seat to get leverage and yanking on my teeth.

It was a pretty gnarly *** moment.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I woke up in the middle of it.

I still remember seeing the oral surgeon up on my seat to get leverage and yanking on my teeth.

It was a pretty gnarly *** moment.

You hope it was to get leverage to pull your teeth. :laugh2:

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

You hope it was to get leverage to pull your teeth. :laugh2:

:laugh2: Reminds me of the Jerky Boys skit about the cab driver getting his teeth pulled by Mr Rocko.

 

[vta]

There are really strong topicals that can be used prior to the needle injection. They do make a big difference. There is an art to medicine (and dentistry, too) and some take extra care to make things more comfortable and some do not, unfortunately.

I barely felt the injection when I had mine done, for example, and it's not because I'm some tough SOB.

I certainly appreciate my dentist doing that too. I wasn't even aware of it until I switched dentists. I sat with a doused swab in my mouth a little while without knowing why until he gave me the needle and I didn't even feel it.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I certainly appreciate my dentist doing that too. I wasn't even aware of it until I switched dentists. I sat with a doused swab in my mouth a little while without knowing why until he gave me the needle and I didn't even feel it.

You guys are wimps.:laugh1:

I tell this one dentist I go to now, does not play around. Gets you in the chair, shoots you with the needles and he probably does not even wait 30 seconds before he starts working.

Now normally I would not go back to a place like that but I tell you in a day and age where you make an apt. and wind up waiting an hour after that time to be seen...I will make some concessions. With this guy you make an apt for 4 PM. You get there say at 3:30 and he always gets you in before you apt time. I like that...Get in, get it done and you are out. I remember one time going early and I was done and out the door before my original apt time.

Of course him being so fast with the needle and starting before it fully kicks in might be why he has the time to do it without being too crowded in the waiting room.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

You guys are wimps.:laugh1:

I tell this one dentist I go to now, does not play around. Gets you in the chair, shoots you with the needles and he probably does not even wait 30 seconds before he starts working.

Now normally I would not go back to a place like that but I tell you in a day and age where you make an apt. and wind up waiting an hour after that time to be seen...I will make some concessions. With this guy you make an apt for 4 PM. You get there say at 3:30 and he always gets you in before you apt time. I like that...Get in, get it done and you are out. I remember one time going early and I was done and out the door before my original apt time.

Of course him being so fast with the needle and starting before it fully kicks in might be why he has the time to do it without being too crowded in the waiting room.

He doesn't even ask you if the necessary side of your face is numb yet?

 

[big dog cowboy]

I woke up in the middle of it.

I still remember seeing the oral surgeon up on my seat to get leverage and yanking on my teeth.

It was a pretty gnarly *** moment.

Did it look like this?

:chop:

 

[Jon88]

I had to have all four pulled. They each had to be cracked then pulled out. I was put under for that wonderful experience. I think I couldn't eat solid food for a month because the holes had to be stitched shut. I also couldn't open my mouth for a month because my jaw was swollen.

Other than the time I was left for dead in a ditch, getting my wisdom teeth pulled had to be the worst experience in my life.

What happened there?

 

[Faerluna]

Did it look like this?

:chop:

 

[Eskimo]

You guys are wimps.:laugh1:

I tell this one dentist I go to now, does not play around. Gets you in the chair, shoots you with the needles and he probably does not even wait 30 seconds before he starts working.

Now normally I would not go back to a place like that but I tell you in a day and age where you make an apt. and wind up waiting an hour after that time to be seen...I will make some concessions. With this guy you make an apt for 4 PM. You get there say at 3:30 and he always gets you in before you apt time. I like that...Get in, get it done and you are out. I remember one time going early and I was done and out the door before my original apt time.

Of course him being so fast with the needle and starting before it fully kicks in might be why he has the time to do it without being too crowded in the waiting room.

It really doesn't take that much longer to do the topical and inject the anesthetic, especially for a decently long procedure.

Anyway, the nature of most of my procedures makes topicals less effective but I always try to do my procedures in the least painful (and most efficacious) way possible. Many of my patients who have had procedures done by others are shocked by how quick and painfree the actual injection is once everything is prepped properly.