Having your wisdom teeth out
 

I just got all four of my wisdom teeth out the other day. It was a pretty insane procedure.
My bottom two where far larger then normal and had more the twice the roots as normal.
At one point the dental surgeon had to brace one of her arms against my forehead and rip with the other arm. I have cuts on the corners of my lips now!

I've been on way more advil then I'd like to admit over the last few days (being one of those 'drugs are bad' people) and even a few tylonal 3! Yuck.

I'm just wondering if anyone else had a fun experience getting their's out.

oh yeah, i had it done like four years ago. i got knocked out with laughing gas for the procedure and didn't feel a thing, but afterwards it sucks. you need to spend an entire week in moderate pain with cotton stuffed in your mouth, and when you take them out they are drenched in blood, it's really not a pretty sight. good thing that's done and over with. I just wished i woulda been one of those people who lucked out and weren't born with any. ah well.

I had my bottoms pulled when I was 24, worked 3rd shift had it done, and went to work that night! As for my tops, those were last year after the first dumb as dentist said they'd never come in. Pulled at 10 am, then I went to the open game of the baseball season at 1. Not bad for me!

One word: Percocet!

I actually enjoyed my week after.

i have to get mine out in a few months... ive heard some people are fine the next day and some people feel like shit for a week. my sister had all four of hers taken out and she didnt get out of bed for four days... and you had to change the cotton in her mouth, and when you took em out blood oozed from where the cotton was. you were afraid to open the door to that room, it was like The Exorcist...
ill have to get some MJ for my recovery if im anything like my sister... although it might be kinda hard to smoke with cotton stuffed in my mouth :\

rrf: they generally give you some kind of painkillers... i had vicoden. experiences vary, from everything I've seen. The sleepy-gas had me knocked out for the first 12 hrs or so, and the vicoden kept me downa dn out for hte next 2 days. I tried hard to get off it, 'cuz i didn't like passing out after takng them, but I'm a wuss. :P it's not all THAT bad, in general. it's an in and out kinda thing... have someone drive you there and back, I don't remember the trip home, although I remember waking up afterwards...

I've heard some horror stories of people who got those wisdom teeth out. Me, I didnt' really have any problems.

The only thing I really remember was waking up in the chair and arguing with the doctor to let me walk on my own:rolleyes:
Well I couldnt walk so they put me in a wheel chair heh.

The scary thing was, that it was my first real dental work done so i've never had any type of novicane before. It freaked me out when I couldnt feel my face, I thought maybe they cut a nerve or something hehe.

Interesting that you should bring this up now, I have to get mine out in about a week. I'm getting knocked out, but the only thing I'm worried about is being able to feel the pain even though I'm asleep.

Hahahahahaha

My girlfriend is going to get all five (yes, 5) of her wisdom teeth pulled soon. She is also terrified of needles, anything that cuts, and anything involving teeth.

I am trying hard to by sympathetic, but I still sort of think her fear is funny. I really do feel for her though, I don't know why I still laugh to myself.

(sorry ally, if you read this)

I only had one pulled, but it didn't stop them from prescribing some pretty cool pain meds!

I had four taken out. They knocked me out, but I was still able to walk afterwards. My brother had to be carried after he had his done. But I was fine the day after. Didn't feel any different, very little bleeding too. So it's not always bad.

I got mine out last year. After a few days of pain, I went to get checked out. The gums were infected, and they had to open up the cuts again to relieve the pain . . . . that was tons of fun.

wisdom teeth
 

not to brag or rub it in, but i had the bottom and top wisdom teeth pulled out, and there was no pain, the procedure took 15 minutes!

a damn dental cleaning took longer than that.

the tooth pull was clean, i'm glad the surgeon knew what he was doing.

i drove home after, didnt eat for 5 hrs as suggested and yes, it sucked that your mouth is full of blood.

btw, i had mine pulled b4 I had any toothaches caused by them so maybe that helps?

I had mine taken out a couple days before I had to go to orientation at my college. So yeah, the whole thing sucked, but the funny part was I got my photo ID done while my cheeks were still swollen. For the next four years I got to remember how much that sucked and even got to hear "hey, this doesn't look like you" on at least a few occations.

The best part was when the needles poked me in the gums 10 times to numb my mouth and feeling the vibrations of the dental tools drilling into my skull to remove the pieces of tooth from my gums. Then I spit out pulps of blood, rinsed, and went home with a mouth full of gauze, wiping the drool from my numb and swollen face. I drank mostly water and took the painkillers reluctantly (I hate pills) after the throbbing pain set in to taunt me. That was my experience, and the only fun to come out of it was living to tell the tale. :)

I got 4 taken out when I was 19-20. I remember counting to 4 with the gas mask on, and then waking up when my mom showed up to drive me home, then I fell asleep from something like 4 pm Friday til 1 am Sunday. But I was back at work on Monday night and pretty much okay by then.

if it makes her feel better, they knocked me out w/ gas before they came NEAR me w/ a needle. good thing, too, I hate those things!

And don't eat Chinese food until you heal. Getting rice in one of the holes where your teeth were SUCKS!!!!!

hmm..i got mine out, all 4 at once, like 2 days before christmas a few years ago .

(i'd just lost my job, but had insurance til the end of december, so i had to take advantage of it...)

they gave me some general anaesthetic, so i know nothing of the actual procedure..i remember when i woke up i started hyperventilating a bit..but the nurse calmed me down...

my mom was there, went right to her house after, and pretty much slept until i needed to be ready for the christmas festivities...

i prooly just ate lots of mashed potatoes, i don't really remember.

and they gave me some good painkiller, vicodin maybe.

healed up just fine. no problems.

I was in the same boat. All of mine were taken out at once. Easily done! I was knocked out with laughing gas and they even gave me an IV with something in it. The only funny things that happened was that they couldn't fine the vein in my arm for the IV and I was still awake for that :| didn't hurt though. lol, when I woke up I had the nurse dig my teeth out of the trash! hahaha I still have them... dunno what I was thinking. I healed failry fast with almost no blood afterwards, I did have the erie problem of still picking stitches out like 6 weeks after the surgery but it's all gooood!

My family has a messed up dental legacy that left me with several extra teeth by the time I was 17. In preperation for getting braces put on I had to have these supernumeraries removed along with my wisdom teeth. All told the oral surgeon removed 9 (!) teeth at one time.

I remember being under (not all the way under, just the hazy kind of under) and being jolted by the force that the surgeon had to use to get the teeth out. After leavng the office I felt like I'd been on the receiving end of a severe beating.

The drug-free route wasn't much of an option after and I remember a rather hazy week of vicodin induced comfort.

The healing wasn't that bad for the extras, but my wisdom sockets took a rather long time to heal. I remember having to use a syringe filled with salt-water to spray out bits of food that would get stuck in the holes. Needless to say my breath was pretty funky for quite awhile after that procedure.

No pain for me, though I did puke a bunch that day, including twice outside their building, once right on their doorstep.
Also swelled like a baloon, wouldn't leave the house for a week.

Part of the variance in the wisdom tooth experience is the state of the wisdom tooth roots. If they just basically go straight down or spread a little, it's not that bad an operation. But some people have roots that go down and then curl up again -- like fishhooks. You can guess what those are like to get out. Those are the folks who get the _good_ drugs afterwards.

So my friends tell me. I'm in my 40s and have all 32 teeth; there was space for the wisdom teeth in my jaw. Sometimes being a bigmouth pays off.

I'm starting to think that I'm the only person in the world who was completely awake for the entire thing.

"You're going to hear a little cracking" is such an understatement....

i had all four taken out at once. they put me out to do this. then they woke me up and sent me home, where i slept for over 20 hours straight! go drugs!

All four of my wisdom teeth are coming in sidewides. They haven't bothered me any, so who knows. :)

I went and smoked a cigarette right after my surgery. Then I smoked another and so on... Two days later I suffered from four dry sockets. It felt like someone had punched me in the face with a hammer. Learn from this my friend. Do not smoke.

I had all mine taken out a year ago. Afterward, the painkillers they had given me were doing nothing, but Excedrin seemed to work pretty well. I got tired of them hurting all the time and complained to the surgeon, so I had my stitches removed a couple days early. They shoved some medicated gauze into the holes and that hurt like a bitch. After those were removed though they never hurt again.

*shudder*

well im 19 and still have mine in... im sposed to get a new xray at christmas time... but my dentists told me if they dont bother me... and dont look like theyll cause trouble then she would leave em... and i agree... i wanna keep all the teeth i can

Eeeeep, I go to the dentist today to get an evaluation for wisdom tooth extraction, so please give me good luck! :)

They hurt off and on so I probably am going to get them removed, but the thought of it makes me kinda sick to my stomach. At least they will be knocking my ass out with the gas.

dealed, guite easily. first 2 from left side , month later 2 from right side.

wow. i had such a nasty experience with these bastards.

i had all four removed at once, under general anaesthetic (sp?).
my bottom two were impacted, nasty.

they had to dislocate my jaw to open it up enough to get the little suckers out properly.

i then had massively swollen cheeks for about a month.
this was longer than normal since my stitches opened up once accidently, and the wound got infected... and thus re-swollen.

i remember waking up from the drugs in hospital, and having to throw up heaps since i´d swallowed so much blood.

nasty.

feels a little weird when i read these stories about how easy it was for other people. oh well. everyones different.

good luck meff.

Thanks! :) I'm going to need it. The dentist scares the hell out of me, and I can't stand the drilling noise or smell :o

Had mine taken out a year and a half ago. My clearest memory was after the surgery with the tech wheeling me out to the car with me in the wheelchair yelling "Timmmmaaaaahh!!!"

As for the next week:

"Mmmmm... Percocet..."

Yeah, you definitely get some nice drugs. My problem wasnt with pain from the teeth (or place where they used to be), that stopped hurting after 2 or 3 days. It seems that when they were putting in the little thing to hold my mouth open, they managed to pull my jaw muscle... Lemme tell you what, that was some of the most intense pain I have ever been in, and nothing worked on it, not even the Vicodin they gave me. I couldnt sleep it hurt so badly. About a week and a HUGE bottle of ibuprofen later, it stopped hurting as much.

The actual teeth didnt hurt bad at all. I got a bottle with 15 vicodin in it, and only used 4 of them. They are kinda fun, but the whole opium-derivative narcotic deal scares me, and I didnt like being all loopy from a pill (thats what beer is for).

Looks like i get to keep my bottoms ones. Came in while i was getting braces on. they simply stuck a bracket on em and told me how lucky i was. No signs of any top ones, so im hoping for the best.

By the time i was in 5th grade though, i had had 8 teeth pulled. went in twice for 4 teeth each time. That guy was a quack and there should be some malpractice suits on his ass if ya ask me...

Anyway, there was nothing but local anesthetic for those. That pain wasn't bad but the ripping sound is intense, along with the pressure. I wasnt in for some other oral surgery though, for some grafting of gum tissue from the roof of my mouth to the gumline. That was much worse than getting teeth pulled. You be surprised how long it takes for the roof of your mouth to heal from getting cut open and a chunk taken out of it. But this is where it gets really cool. I cant remembr the name of teh drug, but i told the dentist who reffered my there that i had huge problems with anxiety before i went. Tell this to your dentist for every operation! make sure someone drives you though.

there was no gas, just anesthetic. I took the drug like 2 hours before i went there. It kills any memory you have while its active. I remembr getting to teh office. Then i kinda remembr stumbling out. the two hours or whatever i was in there for are a total black out. At one point i think i even went to sleep while they were working on me, because i apprently had my eyes closed and couldn't keep my mouth open. It very well may have been teh worst pain ever, but 10 minutes after i got out of there i couldn't have told you what my name was probably, let alone if it hurt or not. Trust me, if you can't remember it, it really IS just like there was no pain. Just tell your dentist you have anxiety problems and dont want gassed



Just remembered what it was - Halcion (im pretty sure) either way, its my drug of choice.

If any of you have questions, I'm around (and a dentist).

I had mine out in the 8th grade and it wasn't all that bad... sure i couldn't eat solid food for a week but i'm glad i had it done

all 4 of mine were pointing towards my other teeth. When I had it done I was put completely under, they had to be broken and then pulled out in pieces. I was on drugs for about a week after.