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Wisdom Teeth
Have you had your wisdom teeth removed? Any horrible or semi-good experiences? I am thinking I am going to have to have mine removed but so scared because H had to have bone cut (extremely painful) for his to be removed. Yuck!
Re: Wisdom Teeth
Mine were taken out right before I started my freshman year of college; they were so high up the dentist was quite sure they'd never come down on their own. It was an okay experience. I was a little freaked out by the electric paddles they have in the oral surgeon's office (I was under full anesthesia since they had to go through the outside of my gums on the top, as the roots were in my sinuses because of how far up they were), but it wasn't a big deal.
My only "bad" experiences were due to the pain meds - I was given Percocet, which made me cry like a banshee every 45 minutes for no reason. I quit taking them on about day 3, and switched to Advil and was fine.
My other "bad" experience is that I woke up craving really spicy food - Indian or Thai curries - but couldn't eat solids for several days afterwards. I did however discover that guacamole was an awesome non-solid food to be enjoyed
My bottom two were removed and it was fine. I had a strange out of body experience when I was in the recovery room. That's another story though.
Here are the fun/positive reasons for getting your wisdom teeth out:
1) everyone is doing it! You will now fit in with everyone else
2) your face can stay pretty! Your skull won't morph into a freakish caveman look with teeth growing out of your face
3) the pain you experience from surgery is nothing compared to the pain of a lifelong impacted wisdom tooth--this can cause other teeth to crack under the pressure!
4) The syringe you get to take hone to help clean the hole squirts really far and makes for a fun squirt gun, FYI.
5) drugs. Dopey loopy everything is wonderful drugs
6) icecream!! Great excuse to eat mass quantities of icecream. And chocolate pudding.
Good luck! You can do it
Eeva has some great reasons for getting them out!
I had mine removed when I was 18 or 19. It wasn't so bad. I did have to make sure I took my pain killers on schedule (I would wake up in the middle of the night to do it), but that made the pain barely noticeable.
I didn't have to have mine removed until after they had grown in (big mouth, I guess), so it was just an extraction.
The bad part for me was developing dry socket in one of the holes. It happens when the blood doesn't clot properly right after the tooth is removed.
I compared the pain to giving birth through a tooth hole, but drugs took care of it quickly.
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermI was roughly 20 when I had mine out. I had never had "laughing gas" before that. We found out that I happen to cry (actually, bawl uncontrollably) with laughing gas. So that was interesting. My mom said I just kept say, "Why am I crying momma? I don't know why I'm crying, momma." ALL THE WAY HOME. lol
Other than that, I slept for 3 days straight from the pain meds.
Before I had 3 of them cut out (they would have never come "in" because they were actually growning forward instead of down) I had one pulled by my regular dentist, with only novocaine. That, was HORRID! That was way worse than the other 3 combined.
When Keith had his out a couple of years ago, he had an adverse reaction to the pain meds and they made him throw up. Throwing up is not fun with stitches in your mouth.
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Hmm so it seems like its better to go "under" then just rely on the novocaine. I am such a wimp with pain so it sounds like my route to go.
Tisha: Too funny! Well the crying part. The puking sounds horrible! I have such a fear of throwing up that I would hate that so much...watch..now its going to happen to me!
I am hoping that I don't react to the medicine too bad. I have an appointement on the 12th to get them checked out so that will be the final decision day. EEeeekkk
LOL! I had mine out in high school by an oral surgeon at a large hospital so I was knocked out completely. I was really sore, but lost 9lbs, so life was good. I'd say it took a week to recover.
On the flip side, I remember some of my friends walking out the dentist's office and going straight for the mall and eating sushi in a few days.
I had mine out when I was 19. They had to be cut out, and I was on a strict liquid diet for a week-ish (can't remember how long, exactly). It wasn't too bad - soup, popsicles, shakes, etc. I forgot the # 1 rule, though and drank through a straw. They aren't kidding when they say straws cause dry sockets. When you suck in through the straw, you cause the clots to loosen and dislodge, so it doesn't heal properly. I'd go through the actual surgery over again if it meant no dry sockets.
You'll be fine, just don't use straws! And remind your hubby it's time to be pampered.
I had mine removed when I was in high school. I only had three for some reason but I just remember passing out pretty quickly from the drugs
The only side effects I remember are puffy cheeks and more drooling when sleeping. But if you ice your cheeks it gets better pretty quickly. Plus you'll get lots of TLC from DH. 
I also developed a pop in my jaw that I think is the result of the surgery, but I just made an effort for a few weeks not to eat something that I had to open my mouth or bite hard on (like a sandwich) and after taking it easy on my jaw for a week or so it went away and it's never been an issue since.
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I guess I'm the odd one. I only have 3 wisdom teeth (2 on top only one on the bottom). I still have all three. When I was 25 my dentist did an x-ray and they're still sitting there...no nerves...not connected....just sitting in my gums not doing anything.
He said at this point if they haven't come in chances are the never will. So unless I start having problems they wont bother removing them. And so far *knockonwood* I haven't had any issue, and they still haven't come in.
I only had one - my top left side. I don't have any others. It was really far up, so they had to break bones (small ones, I'm sure) to get to it...or at least that's how I remember it (although I was pretty dramatic when I was 19). I had a fine experience...I don't remember being in much pain, and it didn't take me long to recover. Like others said, it's a good excuse to eat lots of ice cream and get waited on by your husband
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