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[Glass Rebel]

Nah, got one pulled out in July, took only 20 mins (15mins waiting for the anaesthesia to kick in) and could eat like normal the day after. Feels good man.

Edit: 20€ too!

 

[Salsa]

What ? Where did you come from now ? O_O

ban is done, but i was clearly a martyr for an example that hasnt catched on, so yeah. Many, many titles with "fuck" in the title that can easily be edited out, but im the only one who got banned for it, oh well.

Im not mad at all, it was a 4 day ban, and i know the mod community doesnt consist on just ONE GUY making all the decisions, but i just think its silly for that one mod to do something like that when its just as easy to simply edit the "fuck" out of the title, the point gets across in the same way. I get it.

 

[Synless]

I have six that need to be removed, that's right, SIX of them!!! I have been dreading getting them removed.

 

[Drazgul]

I have six that need to be removed, that's right, SIX of them!!! I have been dreading getting them removed.

Isn't the world record like 10 wisdom teeth on one person? So take comfort in the thought that some poor sod had to suffer even more.

 

[Synless]

Isn't the world record like 10 wisdom teeth on one person? So take comfort in the thought that some poor sod had to suffer even more.

Poor bastard.

 

[Lerozz]

ban is done, but i was clearly a martyr for an example that hasnt catched on, so yeah. Many, many titles with "fuck" in the title that can easily be edited out, but im the only one who got banned for it, oh well.

Im not mad at all, it was a 4 day ban, and i know the mod community doesnt consist on just ONE GUY making all the decisions, but i just think its silly for that one mod to do something like that when its just as easy to simply edit the "fuck" out of the title, the point gets across in the same way. I get it.

Ugh. Crap indeed that could have been handled differently. Ah well, at least only 4 days.

@topic: Had 4. All removed in one sitting. Pain was unbearable as I did not have pain killers immediately at hand as soon as the anaesthetics stopped working. Had soup and baby food the first few days. Still survived. KA-SHAAAAAA !

 

[L00P]

I still have all four of em and it's not causing me any problem whatsoever

 

[JackEtc]

Ugh, I gotta get mine out this September. All 4 are impacted.

 

[Tornado Condor]

Well, it's not my wisdom teeth, but on the subject of horrific mouth pain: I got a gum graft a few days ago, where they cut out some of the roof of your mouth and graft it onto your receeding gum line, and holy shit my mouth hurts. I got some sort of viral thing around the stitches on the roof of my mouth and I can't eat anything, or drink anything hot or cold without extreme pain. I've been living on nothing but room temperture Ensure and jello for two days now.

I have that too. I got my lower left side done but I still need two more, which I will get done in a couple of months. The surgery was practically painless for me.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Top right one came in several months ago, top left one came in 4 days ago and gave me a nice mouth ulcer and everytime I chew it bites the gum.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Ow.

Yes I saw a dentist.

No I don't have money to get the teeth removed atm.

Bottom ones also haven't showed up yet, any moment now...

Currently using icecream to soothe the pain.

ITT: Share wisdom teeth trials and tribulations.

Look around for dental schools in the area, you might be able to get accepted for care at decent prices.

Also look into:
http://www.carecredit.com/

 

[1stStrike]

I only have 3 wisdom teeth. I'm missing one on the bottom right and my mother is missing one the bottom left. Not exactly sure how that came about...

Mine are still in, though. They haven't had any issues because I actually brush back there. A lot of people brush their teeth, but they don't go far enough back to clean the wisdom teeth too and so they end up needing to be pulled.

I did, however, have 4 teeth pulled when I was younger in order to get braces. My teeth were too large for my jaw, so in order to fix the mess they had to reduce the amount of teeth taking up space.

 

[Trent Strong]

This horrifies me because my dentist told me a few weeks ago that I need a gum graft.

The area of my gum that's worn away is only as big as one of my smallest teeth on the bottom row, so I'm hoping I won't have to get much tissue cut away. Still, with my luck, I'll end up with an infection like yours.

It will probably be fine. I had to get five teeth covered, and it was just bad luck that I got that infection. I'm sure yours will be OK.

I have that too. I got my lower left side done but I still need two more, which I will get done in a couple of months. The surgery was practically painless for me.

Yeah. I think they aren't too bad most of the time, although eating is no picnic. Just bad luck on my part I guess.

 

[Tornado Condor]

It will probably be fine. I had to get five teeth covered, and it was just bad luck that I got that infection. I'm sure yours will be OK.




Yeah. I think they aren't too bad most of the time, although eating is no picnic. Just bad luck on my part I guess.

The thing about gum recession and its surgery is that you don't really ever hear about that kind of stuff so you get scared. When you start telling people, though, you will know that it's a common surgery and plenty of people get it.

 

[ajf009]

I've got my top right in right now, it's crooked haha but no pain. other three are on their way. i'm going in for a consultation to see if they need to be removed.. I sure hope not

 

[Koodo]

All four of mine were impacted so I had to get them out before they started being a problem, because oh gerl, were they going to be a problem.

Post-op sucked (got them all out at once). Well, actually, I guess there literally was no sucking. Terrible weeks, but they pass~

 

[Plywood]

Look around for dental schools in the area, you might be able to get accepted for care at decent prices.

Also look into:
http://www.carecredit.com/

Thank you, I'll be checking into this.

I'll also try and contact a mod to change the title hopefully before my head gets chopped off.

 

[Korey]

lol @ the title change

DAMN YOU

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

All 4 of mine came in nice and straight. No problems whatsoever. Still have them.

Same. My dentist was like "your mouth is so big you could have 4th molars." I didn't know if I should be offended or not

 

[Plywood]

lol @ the title change

DAMN YOU

As I requested. Thank you mod that I will have remain a mystery.

 

[Wilsongt]

After not having gone to the dentist for eight years, I finally went last week due to fucking AWFUL tooth pain on the top and bottom of the right side. Turns out, the tooth that was giving me all of the problem was fine. No decay, no cracks, and the fillings were fine. The wisdom tooth was being the bitch. So... Needless to say, I go for a consultation soon to see if all four need to come out.

Not only that, I am going for a root canal next week, as well as three additions fillings.

Also, my dental insurance SUCKS.

._.

 

[ToxicAdam]

A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn't afford his medication, offering a sobering reminder of the importance of oral health and the number of people without access to dental or health care.

According to NBC affiliate WLWT, Kyle Willis' wisdom tooth started hurting two weeks ago. When dentists told him it needed to be pulled, he decided to forgo the procedure, because he was unemployed and had no health insurance.

When his face started swelling and his head began to ache, Willis went to the emergency room, where he received prescriptions for antibiotics and pain medications. Willis couldn't afford both, so he chose the pain medications.

The tooth infection spread, causing his brain to swell. He died Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insurance-24-year-dies-toothache/story?id=14438171


RIP Plywood

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Codeine, helped alot with my wisdom teeth.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Top right one came in several months ago, top left one came in 4 days ago and gave me a nice mouth ulcer and everytime I chew it bites the gum.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Ow.

Yes I saw a dentist.

No I don't have money to get the teeth removed atm.

Bottom ones also haven't showed up yet, any moment now...

Currently using icecream to soothe the pain.

ITT: Share wisdom teeth trials and tribulations.

all i can say is either find old people with "REAL" pain relief medicine or take a swig of whiskey that will def stop the pain. Other than that , gotta deal with the flare ups or get those suckers cut the fuck out the pain will wake you from a deep sleep, and i think there are some real health risks.

 

[Tobe]

had to remove the 4 of them earlier this year. right side gave me no problems it didnt even swell that much also i didnt even need to use painkillers.

the left side gave just one pain but easily one of the worst i remember, during surgery they had to cut the gum to pull the teeth out. i had tons of anesthesia but somehow i felt the scalpel all the way through the cut, boy did it hurt, but after that it wasnt really complicated had a few days of being in bed playing marvel most of the time and having my favorite soups delivered to my room.

Spoiler

just so ppl know in peru dental care is really cheap like the four of them cost 500 bucks included the meds and the other check ups after the surgery, maids charge 250 dollars a month working from monday to saturday. basically you can have a really really good life here earning 45k a year

 

[Plywood]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insuran...ry?id=14438171


RIP Plywood

I am already dead.

 

[Menelaus]

Had wisdom teeth, they fucking sucked, thought I could just grow a pair and be a man about it, couldn't. Pain is pain, and pain won. Got all of them out for around $300 out of pocket thanks to insurance.

 

[LordCanti]

I usually let pain go until the last minute. Case in point, I may have had a hernia for the past year. Having a CT scan Tuesday-ish to confirm. Surgery to fix probably to shortly follow.

I'll probably let my wisdom teeth go until the pain is absolutely excruciating. I dislike hospitals that much.

 

[Menelaus]

To be fair, wisdom teeth don't require a hospital trip, and going under is fun as hell.







Until you ask your wife "did they rape me?" in front of the dentist whilst still drugged.

 

[LordCanti]

To be fair, wisdom teeth don't require a hospital trip, and going under is fun as hell.

Until you ask your wife "did they rape me?" in front of the dentist whilst still drugged.

My father had his out, and he was in agony for a good week or so. I'm of the sad hope that my wisdom teeth just won't be a problem. What did people do with their wisdom teeth before there were dentists to pull them out?

I know what you mean about the drugs though. I once woke up from having been sedated with...mm...Fentanyl? Phentynl? Something like that. I came to mid sentence, and went from answering a nurse's question, to asking where the hell I was.

 

[Dr.Acula]

Cryptonomicon
Chapter 86
WISDOM
by Neal Stephenson

A few years ago, when Randy became tired of the ceaseless pressure in his lower jaw, he went out onto the north central Californian oral surgery market looking for someone to extract his wisdom teeth. His health plan covered this, so price was not an obstacle. His dentist took one of those big cinemascopic wraparound X-rays of his entire lower head, the kind where they pack your mouth with half a roll of high speed film and then clamp your head in a jig and the X-ray machine revolves around you spraying radiation through a slit, as the entire staff of the dentist's office hits the deck behind a lead wall, resulting in a printed image that is a none too appetizing distortion of his jaw into a single flat plane. Looking at it, Randy eschewed cruder analogies like "head of a man run over several times by steamroller while lying flat on his back" and tried to think of it as a mapping transformation, just one more in mankind's long history of ill advisedly trying to represent 3D stuff on a flat plane. The corners of this coordinate plane were anchored by the wisdom teeth themselves, which even to the dentally unsophisticated Randy looked just a little disturbing in that each one was about the size of his thumb (though maybe this was just a distortion in the coordinate transform like the famously swollen Greenland of Mercator) and they were pretty far away from any other teeth, which (logically) would seem to put them in parts of his body not normally considered to be within a dentist's purview, and they were at the wrong angle - not just a little crooked, but verging on upside down and backwards. At first he just chalked all of this up to the Greenland phenomenon.

With his Jaw map in hand, he hit the streets of Three Siblings land looking for an oral surgeon. It was already beginning to work on him psychologically.Those were some big ass teeth! Brought into being by the workings of relict DNA strands from the hunter-gatherer epoch. Designed for reducing tree bark and mammoth gristle to easily digestible paste. Now these boulders of living enamel were horrifyingly adrift in a gracile cro-magnon head that simply did not have room for them. Think of the sheer extra weight he had been carrying around. Think of the use that priceless head real estate could have been put to. When they were gone, what would fill up the four giant molar shaped voids in his melon? It was moot until he could find someone to get rid of them. But one oral surgeon after another turned him down. They would put the X-ray up on their light boxes, stare into it and blanch. Maybe it was just the pale light coming out of the light boxes but Randy could have sworn they were blanching. Disingenuously, as if wisdom teeth normally grew someplace completely different, they all pointed out that the wisdom teeth were buried deep, deep, deep in Randy's head. The lowers were so far back in his jaw that removing them would practically break the jawbone in twain structurally; from there, one false move would send a surgical steel demolition pick into his middle ear. The uppers were so deep in his skull that the roots were twined around the parts of his brain responsible for perceiving the color blue (on one side) and being able to suspend one's disbelief in bad movies (on the other) and between these teeth and actual air, light and saliva lay many strata of skin, meat, cartilage, major nerve cables, brain feeding arteries, bulging caches of lymph nodes, girders and trusses of bone, rich marrow that was working just fine thank you, a few glands whose functions were unsettlingly poorly understood, and many of the other things that made Randy Randy, all of them definitely falling into the category of sleeping dogs.

Oral surgeons, it seemed, were not comfortable delving more than elbow-deep into a patient's head. They had been living in big houses and driving to work in Mercedes Benz sedans long before Randy had dragged his sorry ass into their offices with his horrifying X-ray and they had absolutely nothing to gain by even attempting to remove these not so much wisdom teeth in the normal sense as apocalyptic portents from the Book of Revelations. The best way to remove these teeth was with a guillotine. None of these oral surgeons would even consider undertaking the extraction until Randy had signed a legal disclaimer too thick to staple, something that almost had to come in a three ring binder, the general import of which was that one of the normal consequences of the procedure was for the patient's head to end up floating in a jug of formaldehyde in a tourist trap just over the Mexican border. In this manner Randy wandered from one oral surgeon's office to another for a few weeks, like a teratomic outcast roving across a post nuclear wasteland, being driven out of one village after another by the brickbats of wretched, terrified peasants. Until one day when he walked into an office and the nurse at the front desk almost seemed to expect him, and led him back into an exam room for a private consult with the oral surgeon, who was busy doing something in one of his little rooms that involved putting a lot of bone dust into the air. The nurse bade him sit down, proffered coffee, then turned on the light box and took Randy's X rays and stuck them up there. She took a step back, crossed her arms, and gazed at the pictures in wonder. "So," she murmured, "these are the famous wisdom teeth!"

That was the last oral surgeon Randy visited for a couple of years. He still had that relentless 24 Jam pressure in his head, but now his attitude had changed; instead of thinking of it as an anomalous condition easily remedied, it became his personal cross to bear, and really not all that bad compared to what some people had to suffer with. There, as in many other unexpected situations, his extensive fantasy role playing game experience came in handy, as while spinning out various epic scenarios he had inhabited the minds, if not the bodies, of many characters who were missing limbs or had been burned over some algorithmically-determined percentages of their bodies by dragon's breath or a wizard's fireball, and it was part of the ethics of the game that you had to think pretty hard about what it would actually be like to live with such injuries and to play your character accordingly. By those standards, feeling all the time like you had an automotive jack embedded in your skull, ratcheting up the pressure one click every few months, was not even worth mentioning. It was lost in the somatic noise.

So Randy lived that way for several years, as he and Charlene insensibly crept upwards on the socioeconomic scale and began finding themselves at parties with people who had arrived in Mercedes Benzes. It was at one of these parties where Randy overheard a dentist extolling some brilliant young oral surgeon who had just moved to the area. Randy had to bite his tongue not to start asking all kinds of questions about just what "brilliant" meant in an oral surgery context; questions that were motivated solely by curiosity but that the dentist would be likely to take the wrong way. Among coders it was pretty obvious who was brilliant and who wasn't, but how could you tell a brilliant oral surgeon apart from a merely excellent one? It gets you into deep epistemological shit. Each set of wisdom teeth could only be extracted once. You couldn't have a hundred oral surgeons extract the same set of wisdom teeth and then compare the results scientifically. And yet it was obvious from watching the look on this dentist's face that this one particular oral surgeon, this new guy, was brilliant. So later Randy sidled up to this dentist and allowed as how he might have a challenge - he might personally embody a challenge - that would put this ineffable quality of oral surgery brilliance to some good use, and could he have the guy's name please.

A few days later he was talking to this oral surgeon, who was indeed young and conspicuously bright and had more in common with other brilliant people Randy had known, mostly hackers, than he did with other oral surgeons. He drove a pickup truck and kept fresh copies of TURING MAGAZINE in his waiting room. He had a beard, and a staff of nurses and other female acolytes who were all permanently aflutter over his brilliantness and followed him around steering him away from large obstacles and reminding him to eat lunch. This guy did not blanch when he saw Randy's Mercato roentgenogram on his light box. He actually lifted his chin up off his hand and stood a little straighter and spake not for several minutes. His head moved minutely every so often as he animadverted on a different corner of the coordinate plane, and admired the exquisitely grotesque situation of each tooth its - paleolithic heft and its long gnarled roots trailing off into parts of his head never charted by anatomists.

When he finally turned to face Randy, he had this priest-like aura about him, a kind of holy ecstasy, a feeling of cosmic symmetry revealed, as if Randy's jaw, and his brilliant oral surgery brain, had been carved out by the architect of the Universe fifteen billion years ago specifically so that they could run into each other, here and now, in front of this light box. He did not say anything like, "Randy let me just show you how close the roots of this one tooth are to the bundle of nerves that distinguishes you from a marmoset," or "My schedule is incredibly full and I was thinking of going into the real estate business anyway," or "Just a second while I call my lawyer." He didn't even say anything like, "Wow, those suckers are really in deep." The young brilliant oral surgeon just said, "Okay," stood there awkwardly for a few moments, and then walked out of the room in a display of social ineptness that totally cemented Randy's faith in him. One of his minions eventually had Randy sign a legal disclaimer stipulating that it was perfectly all right if the oral surgeon decided to feed Randy's entire body into a log chipper, but this, for once, seemed like just a formality and not the opening round in an inevitable Bleak House like litigational saga.

And so finally the big day came, and Randy took care to enjoy his breakfast because he knew that, considering the nerve damage he was about to incur, this might be the last time in his life that he would be able to taste food, or even chew it. The oral surgeon's minions all looked at Randy in awe when he actually walked in the door of their office, like My god he actually showed up! then flew reassuringly into action. Randy sat down in the chair and they gave him an injection and then the oral surgeon came in and asked him what, if anything, was the difference between Windows 95 and Windows NT. "This is one of these conversations the sole purpose of which is to make it obvious when I have lost consciousness, isn't it?" Randy said. "Actually, there is a secondary purpose, which is that I am considering making the jump and wanted to get some of your thoughts about that," the oral surgeon said.

"Well," said Randy, "I have a lot more experience with UNIX than with NT, but from what I've seen, it appears that NT is really a decent enough operating system, and certainly more of a serious effort than Windows." He paused to draw breath and then noticed that suddenly everything was different. The oral surgeon and his minions were still there and occupying roughly the same positions in his field of vision as they had been when he started to utter this sentence, but now the oral surgeon's glasses were askew and the lenses misted with blood, and his face was all sweaty, and his mask flecked with tiny bits of stuff that very much looked like it had come from pretty far down in Randy's body, and the air in the room was murky with aerosolized bone, and his nurses were limp and haggard and looked like they could use makeovers, face lifts, and weeks at the beach. Randy's chest and lap, and the floor, were littered with bloody wads and hastily torn open medical supply wrappers. The back of his head was sore from being battered against the head rest by the recoil of the young brilliant oral surgeon's cranial jack hammer. When he tried to finish his sentence ("so if you're willing to pay the premium I think the switch to NT would be very well advised") he noticed that his mouth was jammed full of something that prevented speech. The oral surgeon pulled his mask down off his face and scratched his sweat soaked beard. He was staring not at Randy but at a point very far away. He heaved a big, slow sigh. His hands were shaking.

"What day is it?" Randy mumbled through cotton.

"As I told you before," the brilliant young oral surgeon said, "we charge for wisdom tooth extractions on a sliding scale, depending on the degree of difficulty." He paused for a moment, groping for words. "In your case I'm afraid that we will be charging you the maximum on all four." Then he got up and shambled out of the room, weighed down, Randy thought, not so much by the stress of his job as by the knowledge that no one was ever going to give him a Nobel prize for what he had just accomplished.

 

[BobDylan]

I am not teasing. If you want it done PM me.

uhhhhh I need mine out and I live in chicago....

 

[Ezalc]

Have mine coming in now. The pain only lasts like three days, stop being such a little bitch.

 

[Plywood]

Have mine coming in now. The pain only lasts like three days, stop being such a little bitch.

The pain is not in the tooth jackass.

It's the gaping fucking hole in my mouth.

Which has been getting smaller however and would you look at that, it's been three days!

 

[Ezalc]

The pain is not in the tooth jackass.

It's the gaping fucking hole in my mouth.

Which has been getting smaller however and would you look at that, it's been three days!

Yes the pain comes from it biting down on the gum in the back of your mouth right? Same thing with me man, it didn't even last a week. For a guy who lasted some ungodly amount of time in the no-fap contest, it's sad to see this getting to you.

 

[Plywood]

Yes the pain comes from it biting down on the gum in the back of your mouth right? Same thing with me man, it didn't even last a week. For a guy who lasted some ungodly amount of time in the no-fap contest, it's sad to see this getting to you.

:lol

I have varying levels of pain tolerance, my mouth can only take so much.

That doesn't sound right.

 

[Ezalc]

:lol

I have varying levels of pain tolerance, my mouth can only take so much.

That doesn't sound right.

No it does not, either way it should be gone in a few days. I know how annoying it is, I was feeling the pain a week or two ago and even though there are seven dentists in my family, one that is currently living in the same house as me, I refuse to go to one.

 

[jyoung188]

Got all 4 of mine pulled a few years ago. Glad I got them all done at once, that sucked. It took me forever to heal from the procedure and I had to use the damn syringe to rinse out the holes, that was disgusting.

 

[LordCanti]

:lol

I have varying levels of pain tolerance, my mouth can only take so much.

That doesn't sound right.

My mouth can just take it and take it and take it.

Wait a minute...

Those that have had their wisdom teeth removed; Was it hard to get them to agree to full anesthesia? I don't want to be fucking conscious if I ever have to get it done, even if I'm gassed and loopy as hell.

Also, how long did it take? In and out in an hour?

No it does not, either way it should be gone in a few days. I know how annoying it is, I was feeling the pain a week or two ago and even though there are seven dentists in my family, one that is currently living in the same house as me, I refuse to go to one.

Dentist refusal defense force, ASSEMBLEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't been to a dentist since I turned 18 and my parents could no longer legally make me. I brush my teeth, they aren't fucked up, but I refuse to go to one every couple of months to have a woman scrape my gums until they bleed.

 

[Plywood]

No it does not, either way it should be gone in a few days. I know how annoying it is, I was feeling the pain a week or two ago and even though there are seven dentists in my family, one that is currently living in the same house as me, I refuse to go to one.

You're either made of stone or just being really stubborn. Maybe both.

My mouth can just take it and take it and take it.

 

[Drazgul]

Those that have had their wisdom teeth removed; Was it hard to get them to agree to full anesthesia? I don't want to be fucking conscious if I ever have to get it done, even if I'm gassed and loopy as hell.

Just get a local anaesthetic and wham bam, you're done. The actual procedure isn't nearly as annoying as the aftercare.

 

[Ezalc]

You're either made of stone or just being really stubborn. Maybe both.

Hahaha, well the pain was annoying but it didn't hurt so much that I couldn't eat. Plus for some reason I kind of liked the pain a little bit, which is odd since I'm usually a little bitch when it comes to physical pain I guess my mouth is the exception. Wow that does sound weird.

Dentist refusal defense force, ASSEMBLEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't been to a dentist since I turned 18 and my parents could no longer legally make me. I brush my teeth, they aren't fucked up, but I refuse to go to one every couple of months to have a woman scrape my gums until they bleed.

It has been a good year or more since I've been to the dentist, read my uncle, but if I feel too much discomfort I ask them to take a look at it. So I just open my mouth and ask them to check it out on the spot haha.

 

[LordCanti]

Just get a local anaesthetic and wham bam, you're done. The actual procedure isn't nearly as annoying as the aftercare.

I...I literally couldn't sit there while someone jammed a syringe into my gums. I need to be out if I'm ever going to have it done.

 

[Drazgul]

I...I literally couldn't sit there while someone jammed a syringe into my gums. I need to be out if I'm ever going to have it done.

A bad experience in the past? I know the injection stings (imo the pain isn't that bad), but it's only for a second and then half your face will be numb.

 

[LordCanti]

A bad experience in the past? I know the injection stings (imo the pain isn't that bad), but it's only for a second and then half your face will be numb.

I stubbed my left big toe really bad when I was a bit younger, and made the toenail grow into the skin. I went to have it removed, and the guy gave me a "local anesthetic" via a multi-inch long needle into the meat of the underside of my foot. It...didn't really work that well.

The words "local anesthetic" strike terror into my heart.

 

[Dilly]

Had mine removed last year, mouth started bleeding everytime I tried to eat something for 4 days.

 

[AZ Greg]

I had all 4 (impacted) removed Summer 09. I was 23. So everything that is supposed to make this procedure a bitch was there. They knocked me out. Procedure went smooth. Recovery went smooth (As long as you follow their directions). Pain med. was great. Though I only used it for the first two nights to make sleeping easy. Could have easily went without. GAF and the net in general had hyped it up to be some terrible procedure, but it was meh. Just get it done, follow the doctor's directions, and be rid of em.

 

[Drazgul]

I stubbed my left big toe really bad when I was a bit younger, and made the toenail grow into the skin. I went to have it removed, and the guy gave me a "local anesthetic" via a multi-inch long needle into the meat of the underside of my foot. It...didn't really work that well.

The words "local anesthetic" strike terror into my heart.

I'm no doctor, but those probably aren't directly comparable. When you get a local anaesthetic into your gums, you can even ask the dentist to inject only a little first, then wait a while before injecting the rest. There's no pain whatsoever after it is properly administered.

 

[LordCanti]

I'm no doctor, but those probably aren't directly comparable. When you get a local anaesthetic into your gums, you can even ask the dentist to inject only a little first, then wait a while before injecting the rest. There's no pain whatsoever after it is properly administered.

I wonder if they would gas me first, and then give me the local anesthetic. Either way, I'd rather they just completely knock me out.

 

[AZ Greg]

LordCanti, they should have no issue gassing you. I don't even think my oral surgeon asked. Just did it. And the procedure only took like 30-45 minutes for me to remove all 4. I still remember my heart rate being really high cause I was nervous only to watch it drop as the gas started kicking in. I remember having like 5 seconds of euphoria before waking up and everything being over.

Worst part of the entire procedure? The amoxicillin I had to take afterwards made my scalp/hair stink. :\

 

[Plywood]

Hahaha, well the pain was annoying but it didn't hurt so much that I couldn't eat. Plus for some reason I kind of liked the pain a little bit, which is odd since I'm usually a little bitch when it comes to physical pain I guess my mouth is the exception. Wow that does sound weird.

Haha, we're opposites.