I'm getting my wisdom teeth out friday.

[TufNeck]

What about you?

[SofaKingLiberal]

1. I got them out 10 years ago.

:silly:

[Borgnine]

2. I got them out three weeks ago.

It was actually fine. I was high out of my mind once awakening, and that made it enjoyable. For the first three hours or so there's the horrible bleeding, but once that stops it's just a matter of not being able to eat solid foods for the next day.

[Robeson]

3. Had them yanked out many moons ago...

...you'll be knocked out, so there want be any pain. Your mouth may be a bloody mess, though.

[reDEMption]

4. You'll be fine.

It's not bad at all--I was terrified--but it turned out to be a piece of cake. I don't remember it hurting--and I didn't have blood all over in my mouth.

The one thing I CAN caution you on is something you need to pay attention to: After a couple days, you'll feel normal...you don't even necessarily remember too much about your teeth as you resume the same diet you've always eaten... You go out and eat pot roast or steak, pork chops, chicken--and it really tastes good and was no problem to eat...

Then you go to bed after dinner and wake up a couple of hours later with both side of your face swollen and aching like crazy--maybe even bleeding. It seems those nice chunks of meat you ate required too much pressure to chew well enough to swallow them, and were lodged far enough back in your mouth that they bruised or broke open your surgery sites...

The moral of the story is: Pay attention to where things get chewed in your mouth, and DON'T rush eating solid foods like meat chunks; it may not hurt while you're eating, but the effects may be delayed. Several DAYS of pain and bleeding were what I got out of it--it ultimately bothered me more than the original surgery.

[Evoman]

5. HA...wanna here a story

Wisdom teeth..let me tell you about wisdom teeth. I had an x-ray done. Apparently I did not have enough room for wisdom teeth, so they had to come out. This is my dramatic story (it happened about two years ago)

No problem, said Mr. Dentist, by the looks of them, it shouldn't be too tough to take them out. You don't even need to see a surgeon, I'll do it under local anasthesia.

Okay, said Evoman. Dentists knows what he's doing.

Dentist takes hours to pull them out. Dentist has to drill the jaw bone, then drills tooth as well in half. Oops, says dentist, harder then I thought. Evoman sees specks of blood all over his glasses from all the spattering from the drills, because he is AWAKE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE FUCKING THING. The dentist is basically on top of Evoman, pulling on that freaking tooth with all his might while the assitant holds Evoman down. Evoman is almost crying at this point, but he thinks...hey, I'm a tough latino. I can take it. And thats when the anasthetic starts wearing off a little bit. Agonzing pain. Local anasthetic sucks. The burning smell of the drill on his jaw bone starts to get to him. A tear may or may not have come out. He gets that tooth pulled finally, after the dentist decides he cant pull it out in one piece, and instead drills it into chunks. The top tooth fares better. Lots of blood, and lots of painful pulling, but at least no drilling. After that, Evomans face swells up to about 5 times it size. If finally goes down about a week later. Two days after that, it starts swelling up again, mysteriously. Apparently, jackoff dentist left a jagged piece of tooth in there, and now Evoman has a terrible, pus-filled infrection. Dentist cuts him open again to pull it out. Finally its all done. Except now, Evoman has an appointment in another month to go back for the other two teeth. This time it fares MARGINALLY better....

My advice dude....if your not going under, then cancel your appointment. If you have a competent dentist, your going to be fine.

Evoman

[Robeson]

6. Jesus Christ, Evoman! Who did you go to? Hagar, the barbaric...

...teeth puller? Did he attach leeches to you, too? Or drain your blood while he was at it? Fuckin-A man, medicine has come a long way since then. If I had been you, I'd been seeking a lawyer..:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I still have two of mine, my dentist pulled two.

:hi: Good luck!

[Strong Atheist]

8. Both gone ~ 25 years ago. nt.

[colinmom71]

9. Wow... I didn't have nearly the bad experience Evo did...

I've had all four out. One top tooth was removed because it was becoming impacted, then a few years later the other three were removed to reduce crowding after almost four years of orthodontia. Surprisingly, the single removal was harder to recover from than the triple tooth removal - probaby because of the partial impaction. Both procedures were done under local anesthesia and by two different dentists.

The first one was a little painful even with having had nitrous oxide beforehand because it involved several shots of novacaine in the roof of my mouth (felt like really BAD burning/stinging) and a small surgical cut since the impacted tooth was mostly under the gum surface. IIRC, I was given Tylenol 3 and prescription Motrin for pain and it worked nicely, though it took me about 5-6 days to feel back to normal. And it took me longer to eat more normal foods - probably about a week to 10 days.

For the second set of teeth removed, my new dentist believed in giving nervous Nellies meds to take before you got to the office. So, I had a valium, a script Motrin, and a Demerol before I arrived. Then they gave me nitrous oxide and a Walkman to listen to music with for about 15 minutes before they even gave me the novacaine shots. Needless to say, I was flying high and feeling no pain by the time they cut out those teeth. I saw colors and swirls behind my closed eyes while I listened to the local college radio station's MindMeld techno-house program. They also sent me home with scripts for more Demerol and Motrin. My then fiance (now husband) thought I was just about the funniest thing he'd ever seen while he was getting me home. I was so high, I tried to count all the little specks on the "popcorn" ceiling of my mom's house. :D

But the pre-medication and strictly following the dentist's after-care orders helped enormously. I was able to stop using the Demerol within two days, and the prescription strength Motrin about two days later. I was eating normally by about that time too.

Please DO follow your after-care instructions exactly as your dentist recommends. Make sure you do the warm saline mouth washes several times a day, otherwise you may get what's called "dry sockets" (premature loss of the blood clots filling the area of the removed tooth/teeth) which is supposed to be *extremely* painful! I never had any problems with losing the blood clots before the area underneath was healed (though I tend to heal somewhat quickly after surgeries and such...). Also, don't drink from straws or have any citrus drinks/foods for about a week afterwards. The suction created from drinking by a straw can dislodge the blood clots, and the acidity from citrus can irritate the wounds.

Take your pain meds as prescribed. If your dentist doesn't include an anti-inflamatory drug (like Motrin) amongst your scripts, go ahead and buy a bottle of OTC ibuprofen with your scripts and take 1 or 2 capsules every 4 hours between narcotic pills to combat swelling. It really does help reduce the pain.

Good luck tomorrow, and I hope this helps you out! Enjoy being waited upon for the few days it lasts.. ;)

[purji]

10. I had mine removed 15 years ago but

come to find out,I have ANOTHER set coming in.
My sister had oral surgery a few years ago. She had two sets on top
and three sets on the bottom.Some times life just sucks.

[eyesroll]

11. Got four out (one impacted, three easy) under local anesthesia, at 17

If at all given the choice, I prefer to be conscious for surgery because I tolerate pain a whole lot better than I tolerate nausea.

It was easy -- some stinging from the Novocaine, some pressure from the extraction, and some achiness a few days later. I didn't even bother to take the prescription painkillers (I'm not a fan of opiates: see pain vs. nausea).

Good luck.