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Anonymous
guys, i'm going to get my wisdom teeth removed soon.

please share your various wisdom teeth removal experiences, as I am worried and do now know what to expect.
>> Anonymous
don't do it
>> Anonymous
it's no big deal. it's only as bad as you want it to be.
>> Anonymous
was nothing for me
>> Anonymous
I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, but the doctor said that they weren't too deep. I had surgery to remove them all. I got general anaesthesia so I was unconscious during the procedure. Afterwards, I got a prescription for pain killer pills. I didn't eat solid foods for a while while my wounds healed. Gargling with salt water helps too.
>> Herbie !!s1ksehRmCZk
I had mine out a couple days before Christmas in 2003. The upper teeth had come in enough to be mostly through the gum, but the lower ones hadn't moved at all. I went in, sat down, they started an IV, the nurse said something to me as she injected something into the line. I remember laughing and feeling all goofy and the next thing I remember my mom was helping me stumble towards the elevator. They said they don't technically put you under for it, but I sure as hell don't remember any of it.

On the way home, I had to get my mom to pull over the minivan so I could throw up a bunch of blood I swallowed during the procedure. It sounds terrible, but in the state I was in it was actually pretty hilarious.

Got home, took a vicodin, and passed out. Swallowing pills at that point is ridiculous because you have NO feeling anywhere in your mouth. I mostly slept for about the next day.

Swelling was moderate, went away within a week. The soreness hit its peak about three days afterwards, when it pretty much felt like I had been kicked in the jaw by a horse. 90% of the soreness went away within a week. About 10 days after the procedure my stitches started coming loose (they dissolve, you one day find what feels like a wad of fishing line floating around your mouth).

You will have veritable pits in your gums for a while afterward. It was a lot worse on the bottom for me, but mostly because they pretty much just had to cut chunks out of my jawbone to get the lower teeth out. They'll give you a syringe with a curvy end for cleaning crap out of these pits. It is your friend.

It sucks, but not as badly as people seem to say a lot of the time. True, you could get dry socket, but most people don't.

Just take it easy and don't plan on doing anything for a few days afterwards. You'll be fine.
>> Anonymous
mine got infected and i had to go back to the hospital so they could cut the cyst open and it made my jaw all stiff and i couldn't open it all the way for a month

but i got morphine when i went back, so it's all good
>> Anonymous
The big difference you'll probably notice is whether you spring for conscious sedation or not. I you are poor (like me) you will likely be fully conscious, which isn't painful beyond the disturbing imagery of a Dr. wrenching at your jaw. Afterwards the main thing is not to swish liquids, don't smoke and follow the other instructions.
And yes, you will have a bloody, swollen mouth for about a week. You can handle it.
>> Anonymous
OP HERE

when the tooth is pushing through the gum, does that make it easier or harder to remove?
>> Anonymous
I had all four of mine taken out. None of them had breached the gumline but x-rays showed they were working their way up to fuck with my other teeth. I had general anesthesia and was completely out during the surgery. After that my cheeks were kinda puffy and bruised for 4-7 days. Got Codine pills for the pain (there never really was any pain, only some stiffness). Overall it was easy. I thought it was gonna be horrible (I hate surgery, needles, and anything that involves me being unconscious for a purpose other than sleep) but it turned out to be simple and painless.
>> Anonymous
>>118058
probably easier. it depends on the size of the tooth / root. if the tooth isn't pushing thru the gum then the have to cut the gum open and break the tooth into pieces then pull it out of the gum. if it's already pushing out of the gum i think they can just yank it.
>> Herbie !!s1ksehRmCZk
>>118058
Definitely easier. Then it's more like pulling a tooth. My lower ones were still part of my jaw bone, essentially, so they were much harder to take out.
>> Anonymous
I got all 4 of mine pulled out a while back, all 4 were already out of the gums and growing fine it's just my jaw wasn't wide enough for them to fit.

I went to the doctor and he put me to sleep through an IV injection(you get really high), he pulled them fine and dandy, pescribed me some painkillers and I went home.

Fast foward a week later, I have a giant ball of puss in my face and I can't even open my teeth, I have to live off of smoothies I make in my blender and chicken noodle soup and am in severe pain, I took 24 extra strength liquid advils in 24 hours, two days in a row as I was out of my prescribed painkillers.

I go back to the doctor and he puts me to sleep again through IV(hooray) and cuts open the infection and drains the puss out of my face with a little suction tube, gives me some even stronger pain killers and antibiotics. It's been about a month now there is still abit of infection and one hole has been slow to heal, while the other 3 are close to completly healed over.
>> Anonymous
>>118099
me again, enjoy getting your wisdom teeth pulled.
>> Anonymous
First of all, not everybody needs their wisdom teeth removed. A majority of people do, simply because evolution has stupidly not left us enough room in our mouth for all of our teeth.
Some people are mutants, however, and have fewer than 4 (or none at all). Others have no need to remove their wisdom teeth but the cosmetic dentistry industry runs a tight scam (like with braces) and will usually recommend doing it anyway to collect the insurance money. A lot of dentists are in the pocket of cosmetic dentistry this way. I've had friends have their wisdom teeth removed (at great expense) only to have future dentists tell them it was entirely unnecessary.
>> Anonymous
I probably had the best time of it out of anyone ive ever talked to. After the initial painkillers from the surgery wore off i had absolutely no pain whatsover except for just moderate soreness that normal pain meds would take care of. guess my doc was good or something.
>> Wheat Thin !wqeQ6aYGs.
>>118062
When they knocked you out, were you really knocked out or could you feel or see anything? I might be getting my tonsils removed due to an infection I had, and my biggest worry about going under is feeling pain but not being able to respond.
>> Anonymous
>>118126
things about partial anesthesia:
a - it only happens very rarely...
b - if it does happen, don't be a dick and sue on principle... sue if the anesthetist did something wrong
c - you are now a god of pain tolerance
>> Anonymous
My anesthesiologist gave me some pills to take an hour before arriving at the dentist's office and told me to have someone drive me to and from the office. Probably sedatives and anti-anxiety medication, not that I had any. Anyway, I call my mother up to have her take me and wait for the procedure to finish. I take my pills an hour before and hop in the car.
I don't notice any effects until I'm actually in the waiting room where everything kind of becomes a blur. I remember being called in and strapped to a table where they actually administer the anesthetic. They start the IV, and ask me to count backwards from 100. Okay.
100... 99... 9eaigpthbttt. Out.

The next thing I remember, I'm in bed, at home. My mouth is all gauzed up, and I have a milkshake on my nightstand.
I call my mother to see what happened, and she says when they finished with my wisdom teeth removal, they sat me in a waiting room to wait for some of the anesthetic to wear off. After they determined I was okay, they put me in a wheelchair and took me out to the car. Apparently I decided I was okay to walk, and got into my mother's care myself. I was also very lucid she says, and even had the wherewithal to ask her to stop at a drive-in to grab a hamburger and milkshake on the way home. Upon arriving at home, I declared that I was going to take a nap, and put the burger in the fridge, but took the milkshake with me.
I remember none of this from the countdown to waking up...They also gave me percocet for the pain, and I didn't feel a thing until I ran out a week later. My girlfriend told me it made me giddy.
>> Anonymous
>>118142

I woke up in the little wake up room, and as they were shuffling me out the back door into my mom's car, i started raging with them for not telling me how things went.

I guess I woke up faster than people usually do.
>> Wheat Thin !wqeQ6aYGs.
>>118142
Damn, sounds awesome. My fears are alleviated.

>>118132
If that ever happened, I don't think I'd sue, I'd just never go under again. I don't like the idea of suing doctors and whatnot, especially with the way doctors are leaving my state in force right now due to malpractice suits coming at them from every direction.
>> Anonymous
>>118142here.

>>118147
My only concern is that part I have no memory of but was apparently lucid and in my right mind. Apparently part of the sedative cocktail they give you contains sodium pentathol, better known as truth serum. Apparently it impaired my judgement quite a bit. How the fuck am I supposed to eat a hamburger with stitches in my mouth?My mother could have asked me anything, and I bet I would have told her. At least I didn't have my girlfriend drive me! O_o
>> Anonymous
I was born without wisdom teeth.

I AM EVOLVED.
>> Anonymous
I had all 4 removed at the same time. I couldn't eat solid food for 4 days and I wasn't back to normal for 2 weeks.
>> Wheat Thin !wqeQ6aYGs.
>>118159
Oh shit, so you could have felt pain, but don't remember it. Damn I worry about weird things.
>> Anonymous
Had all four removed at the same time. Arrived at the office about 20 minutes early, they called me in, applied Laughing Gas and then an IV, I went out in less than 3 minutes. Afterwards I woke up on the bed, it'd been about a half hour since the surgery was finished. I asked if I was going to swallow my tounge, then decided that was a stupid question and was fine from there on out. Walked to my father's car so he could drive me home, spent the next few days talking and eating pudding while watching Mel Brooks movies. Had no problems...my brother on the other hand threw up every other hour and was delusional when he came off the meds. It was hilarious.
>> Anonymous
>>118121
This. Didn't even run out of my prescribed meds. Shit was cake.
>> Anonymous
I have no wisdom teeth, Never have and never will. Is this awesome? y/n
>> Anonymous
>>118195
>>118165
Mutants
>> Anonymous
I had my wisdom teeth taken out almost a year ago, top right was exposed, other three impacted(under the gum line) I went in, they gassed me, and I woke up in a small room. I remember getting up and getting in a wheelchair, but I don't remember anything after that till a lot later (apparently I swore like a sailor, and that happens a lot the nurses told my mom).

I guess I was extremely lucky. I had the gauze out the first few hours, and they didn't give me shit for pills, just that tylonol-3 or whatever, and antibiotics. But I was fine, I went and played video games all day, went out to a restaurant late that night (mack and cheese is easy to eat without chewing). I continued to eat soft stuff for about a week, but I felt fine the whole time, and then went back to eating real food.

You just gotta make sure you keep those holes clean. If you don't, thats how you get those nasty infections. But don't fuck with the stitches with your tounge either, thats bad, just leave it alone, take your meds, and hope for the best.