Wisdom teeth stories

[NightHavoc]

So in roughly 7 hours I will be getting all 4 of my wisdom teeth out and lets just say I have an over active imagination and I do tend to worry about things that I shouldn't. Perfect example right here on what is a relatively common procedure and I'm starting to get a little nervous.

I'm quite fine about the teeth extraction part because I'm getting knocked out and I've had surgery before. It's the after part I'm a little nervous about I'm not sure what to expect and I'm not overly fond of pain relating to the mouth.

So escapists got any advice or good stories to tell of what I should expect? Going into surgery tomorrow with a rough idea of what I'm dealing with would be a great help.

 

[Zhukov]

You're getting a general anaesthetic for wisdom teeth? Huh. Any particular reason why? I only needed a local.

Anyway, I got an impacted wisdom tooth when I was 17-18. That means it was coming up and bumping against the back molar. Most uncomfortable. Operation to get it out was quick and clean. Local anaesthetic, gum gets sliced, tooth gets pulled, jaw makes unpleasant grindy-crunchy sounds, all done. Bleeding stopped quick and wound healed fast, as wounds in the mouth tend to do.

The other three came out okay, but two of them became nastily decayed (it's hard to clean them way back them half covered in gum), and had to get pulled recently. That was even more simple, since they'd come up it was just like getting any other tooth pulled.

So I got off easy. I've heard plenty of less pleasant stories. If the seurgen gets their scalpel in the wrong place during the extraction it can damage the tactile nerves in your face, resulting in permanent numb spots on the jaw or chin. Also, in really troublesome cases they actually have to shatter the tooth with what basically amounts to a tiny jackhammer then just pull the shards out one by one.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I got one of my wisdom teeth removed without anesthesia (Novocaine only), that was a mistake, I will never do that again.

The second time, I got them removed using twilight anesthesia, the procedure went fine (except for afterward when I tried to stand and almost hit the floor).

The aftermath... you'll be sitting in a chair most of the day with cotton in your mouth. Hopefully you're the lucky type who can stomach painkillers, if you can, the cotton is the most annoying part. If you can't, you'll be like me, stuck using extra strength Tylenol, which doesn't do the job as much as it needs to.

In both cases, I have a small mouth and the tooth was impacted, they needed to drill it out. That's why I say make sure you're asleep, the first time I had to watch it (and feel it), it wasn't pretty or fun.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

I am the same way. I just had all four wisdom teeth out last year and I am in my early twenties, I put it off so long because I was afraid of doing it. It was the after part I was nervous about also. It kept me up the whole night before, I tend to worry a lot to with an over active mind.

Well I did mine last October and it went pretty darn well thankfully. The pain was bearable, and it healed decently fast. They are going to ask you to rinse your mouth out with warm salt water after every meal for awhile and take anitbiotics, in my case it was pink liquid, because I have a fear of pills, so they might give you pills, but you can ask for the liquid.

The main pain it is going to cause should just last a day or two, then it will start to go down. When I got home there was a lot of blood in my mouth and in the cotton that was in my mouth, so I had to change it around twice. That is apparently normal, but if it is still bleeding majourly for 3-4 hours after than the stitch might have come out. Mine only bled for about an hour and a half to two. You will always probably want to take pain killers the first few days, if you are scared of pills like me you can just crush up tylenol and take it with water.

Besides that I just relaxed and played video games and watched films. Oh, don't use straws or any kind of sucking devices as it can pull the stiches out. Atleast not for the first 5 days, and eat soft foods for awhile. Don't use your tooth brush to brush the wisdom holes until they are healed, instead use mouth wash, my dentist gave me a soft stick that I could use to dab it in the back with mouth wash, she also gave me a little squirt gun to clean the holes out with after every meal, because you don't want food to be in the holes while it is healing.

So yeah, just take care of them and rest a lot the first few days. Keep and eye on it for infection, but it should heal swimmingly as long as you follow procedures.

Also I was knocked out too, the whole thing feels like it takes a minute haha.

 

[NightHavoc]

You're getting a general anaesthetic for wisdom teeth? Huh. Any particular reason why? I only needed a local.

I'm assuming I am since I opted to go to hospital I'd prefer to anyway I'd rather not watch them muck around with a scalpel in my mouth. Only other reason would be because 2 of them are out of my gums the other two are under them but I'm not sure if that applies.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Hopefully you're the lucky type who can stomach painkillers, if you can, the cotton is the most annoying part. If you can't, you'll be like me, stuck using extra strength Tylenol, which doesn't do the job as much as it needs to.

Yeah I had to do this also, my whole family is allergic to Codeine so I had to use the bsic pain killers. So maybe I had more pain then you will have, but pain doesn't usually bother me, probably because I never use strong pain killers.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I had my removed in order for me to get braces (my top right canine tooth did not align properly when it was growing so it stuck out forward compared to my teeth).
My was a simple procedure although they didn't knock me out. Instead they inject the numbing liquid with a needles (scary thought to see) which it did hurt abit until the numbing stuff kicked in. Granted they did had to used abit more when I actually did feel the pain of the tooth being removed (it was a slight pain).
Anyway once all four remove a bit of my tongue did felt abit numb which I guess that liquid landed on that part of the tongue.

 

[NightHavoc]

Besides that I just relaxed and played video games and watched films.

I'm so ok with this! I'm ok with pain pills so I should be fine in that regard. I'm fine with other pain, for example I wrote 3 exams with a broken wrist.... yeah that was fun (Didn't know it was broken) Just mouth pain I have an issue with I hated my braces with a passion of a thousand burning suns haha.

 

[Zhukov]

You're getting a general anaesthetic for wisdom teeth? Huh. Any particular reason why? I only needed a local.

I'm assuming I am since I opted to go to hospital I'd prefer to anyway I'd rather not watch them muck around with a scalpel in my mouth. Only other reason would be because 2 of them are out of my gums the other two are under them but I'm not sure if that applies.

Hm, personally I'd be more freaked out by the prospect of being put to sleep than of seeing people operate on me.

A few years back I had a puncture wound operated on. It was in the side of my ribs, so I could see everything that was going on. It was actually a pretty fascinating sight. The weirdest bit was when they were probing the wound to make sure my organs were undamaged. They had a nurse there to explain what everything was and what they were doing at any given time.

 

[NightHavoc]

You're getting a general anaesthetic for wisdom teeth? Huh. Any particular reason why? I only needed a local.

I'm assuming I am since I opted to go to hospital I'd prefer to anyway I'd rather not watch them muck around with a scalpel in my mouth. Only other reason would be because 2 of them are out of my gums the other two are under them but I'm not sure if that applies.

Hm, personally I'd be more freaked out by the prospect of being put to sleep than of seeing people operate on me.

I can understand that but I find it general better, my first general I had it literally felt like a long blink. The first thing I said when I woke up was what the hell happened?? It was kinda cool

 

[Chemical Alia]

I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out years ago, in my early 20s. They didn't hurt yet, but they were miserably impacted and would have been a bad thing.

I think it went pretty smoothly, though they really had to dig them out on one side and my face was pretty bruised afterwards. They gave me that kind of anesthesia where you're awake but very loopy. I feel pretty embarrassed about this still, but apparently I started insulting the dentist and saying mean things to him directly afterward. I don't remember doing that, but I do remember them wearing fursuits during the procedure.

Afterwards, I went home and slept about dinosaurs hunting me for about five hours. I had trouble eating for about two weeks, and my fondest memory of getting my wisdom teeth out was futilely trying to nibble on little pieces of a hotdog at the public pool on the 4th of July, a week later.

My sister had her fair share of oral surgery, including having the roof of her mouth split open to widen her mouth, having her jaw set closed for months, and having numerous teeth removed manually, including all of her baby teeth. According to her, having your wisdom teeth is the FUNNEST THING EVER and you're probably gonna love it.

 

[Lionsfan]

I had all 4 taken out at once like 2 years ago? I got knocked out so the operation was pretty simple, and when I woke up I remember I tried to ask a nurse for her phone number. But due to the drugs and the mouth surgery, it came out as mumbled gibberish.

As for the after effects? Nothing too bad, just a lot of sleeping, smoothies, and ice cream

 

[staika]

I had three of mine taken out last year and re entire ordeal was horrid. The surgery went fine, I was knocked out and I woke up a few hours later high as a kite. The aftermath is where it gets bullshitty. For one the doctor I went to fucked up a few times. He drilled into my nasal cavity by accident and then didn't take all of the bone chips out in that same wound.

So all of my wounds healed fine except that one. I was in constant pain for about a month and I still had a hole in my gums from where they removed it. So I went back for a checkup and lo and behold they found a bone chip in the wound and that's why it wasn't healing. So he had to pull it out with special plyers without any pain meds. Most painful thing I ever went through. So yeah my experience wasn't that good and I tell everyone to avoid that doctor now cause he sucks =P

 

[Weaver]

Not to make you more nervous, but my experience wasn't too pleasant.

I also got knocked out (highly recommend it). When I came too I was confused and groggy. The dentist was explaining a bunch of stuff to me but and I don't remember a word of it. When he was done I managed to say I was going to throw up, then I threw up in a bucket they had lol. Apparently some people have that reaction to anesthetic.

My mother was driving at the time (I think I was 16?). So on the way home, we got two bottles of pills perscribed: antibiotics and painkillers. I was pretty just miserable as I was constantly bleeding in my mouth and it was filled with cotton. They ALSO froze locally so I didn't feel much pain yet. At one point we had to pull over so I could throw up again.

I'll never forget, a mother was walking with her child and we just pull up in a van beside them, I throw the door open and vomit blood all over the side of the road, then slam the door shut and we speed away.

Once the pain started kicking in, it really did hurt for about 12 hours. However, the next day (due to that you're told to take painkillers every 4 hours or whatever) it actually didn't hurt that much!

Thus, I expect one really bad day, and the rest to not be so bad

 

[Foolery]

I had all four taken out in one go. I was laughing afterwards. I was glad to get those fuckers out.
I went for milkshakes, but the drink kept spilling out of my numb mouth because of the freezing they use.
Everyone in the restaurant thought I was mentally challenged.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

So in roughly 7 hours I will be getting all 4 of my wisdom teeth out and lets just say I have an over active imagination and I do tend to worry about things that I shouldn't. Perfect example right here on what is a relatively common procedure and I'm starting to get a little nervous.

I'm quite fine about the teeth extraction part because I'm getting knocked out and I've had surgery before. It's the after part I'm a little nervous about I'm not sure what to expect and I'm not overly fond of pain relating to the mouth.

So escapists got any advice or good stories to tell of what I should expect? Going into surgery tomorrow with a rough idea of what I'm dealing with would be a great help.

How old are you? Your age will affect how difficult the teeth are to remove, and how long your recovery time is likely to be. I had mine out at 37 and I was absolutely demolished from the surgery. You'd think I'd had a lung removed. Had no energy at all for a week. Mouth was sore but not overwhelmingly so. Took approximately two weeks before I was eating solid foods comfortably, and probably a month or more before I was back to eating things like chips and rice.

One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is dry socket. Your dentist will give you instructions on things to do to avoid it. The more difficult the extractions, the higher the risk. I recommend following those instructions RELIGIOUSLY. There is no amount of paranoid that is too much when it comes to avoiding dry socket. I got pretty cocky when I got a tooth out a year AFTER the Wisdoms were removed, because I'd feared dry socket with the Wisdoms and avoided it. I got a dry socket with the new extraction (very difficult, painful extraction), and let me assure you that the fables about how painful it can be are understatements if anything. Short of morphine, I'm not sure any amount of painkillers is sufficient. I was practically main-lining T3's and extra strength ibuprofen to the point where my liver was about to take out a contract on my life, and the pain just kept spiraling up on a minute by minute basis to the point where it was hard to even think.

So...TLDR...

1. The younger you are, the faster your recovery.
2. If the teeth are erupted/relatively easy to pull it should go fairly easy for you
3. For the love of all that's holy do everything in your power to avoid dry socket

 

[Elfgore]

I'm lucky. My wisdom teeth came in fine with no problems, hell they didn't even hurt.

I did have a friend who had them pulled, he was out of school for about week because of complications. Though. I really have no clue what complications could arise from having wisdom teeth pulled.

 

[Strain42]

I was around...21 or so when I got mine out, it was a few years ago. I don't remember exactly when.

My sister drove me, they knocked me out, removed them, I remember waking up and being guided to the car. I was a little sick, but things were fine.

We pulled into the driveway and I threw up in my sister's car as I was getting out the door. I felt bad and tried offering to clean it up, but obviously I was in no condition to do so.

...that's about it.

 

[antidonkey]

I had all four removed when I was 18. The bottom two were barely below the gums but were coming in crooked. Those were easy to pop out. The top two, however, were completely sideways and still inside my jaw. I still wish they hadn't shown me the xrays. Those needed to be drilled out. Those process took about an hour though it felt way longer than that. I'm sure it was because I was all sorts of drugged. I wasn't put under but had a local in the gums, nitrous oxide, and a small morphine drip. Everything went exceptionally well. I never got dry socket and pain killers kept everything under control. The biggest problem I had was not playing with the stitches with my tongue.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I'm lucky. My wisdom teeth came in fine with no problems, hell they didn't even hurt.

I did have a friend who had them pulled, he was out of school for about week because of complications. Though. I really have no clue what complications could arise from having wisdom teeth pulled.

20-1 it was dry socket. That's the common "complication" of any tooth extraction. If he'd suffered nerve damage or something more elaborate I'm sure you'd have heard about it.