Wisdom Teeth

Traz-KOE · Post by **Traz-KOE** » January 28, 2004, 8:14 pm

Had all four yanked this morning. Fucking kill me.

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » January 28, 2004, 8:15 pm

Sleep on a plastic bag tonight, or you'll wake up with a red pillow ))

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 28, 2004, 8:15 pm

Got chipmonk cheeks yet?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » January 28, 2004, 8:17 pm

Don't think i should kill you, sounds like your dentist allready beat me to it.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 28, 2004, 8:19 pm

Milkshakes 'n' Margaritas.

Twist of Vicodin.

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » January 28, 2004, 8:25 pm

heh i still have all my wisdom teeth had them come in when I was like 14
and i had a second set come in (wtf i know) when I was 17 those too came in strait and are part of the Joker smile now.
If i ever married Nancy Kerrigan our children's teeth could be lethal weapons.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 28, 2004, 8:29 pm

Fourty-Tooth Tony!

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 28, 2004, 8:33 pm

I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed in 7th grade. Wasn't pleasant. I'm not sure what they used for pain meds back then, but whatever it was it made me puke, and that was the end of that. Did it without an IV - laughing gas and about 19023901 shots in the mouth. Torture.

Traz-KOE · Post by **Traz-KOE** » January 28, 2004, 8:35 pm

Still waiting on them to stop bleeding so I can take the gauze out and get a nap, maybe.

Currently on Vicodin 5/500 and 400 of ibuprofen. The chipmonk cheeks are developing nicely.

Was hoping they'd put me out for it, at least, but oh no...local only. Unfortunately local anesthetic = I remember every excruciating detail.

Fuckers.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 28, 2004, 8:37 pm

Yeah.. I can still remember the grinding sound and watching bits of tooth and jaw bone come flying out of my mouth when they had the drill. They kept trying to get me to close my eyes and sleep.. but yeah right. I obsessively watched in the reflection of their goggles.

Oh P.S. - if you have any sort of sensitivity to pain meds, be careful - puking, with stitches, and a swollen face, hurts lots and can rip your stitches.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 28, 2004, 8:41 pm

Traz-KOE wrote:Still waiting on them to stop bleeding so I can take the gauze out and get a nap, maybe.

Currently on Vicodin 5/500 and 400 of ibuprofen. The chipmonk cheeks are developing nicely.

Was hoping they'd put me out for it, at least, but oh no...local only. Unfortunately local anesthetic = I remember every excruciating detail.

Fuckers.

*Snap!* *Crackle!* *Pop!*

When I had mine removed they put me under. I woke up a couple hours later and started walking out the door... I was halfway to the car before the nurse noticed and ran back to get me.

The doctor said something afterwards, but all I wanted to do was get in the car and go home.

Bastard oral surgeons.

Venti · Post by **Venti** » January 28, 2004, 8:47 pm

Traz-KOE wrote:Still waiting on them to stop bleeding so I can take the gauze out and get a nap, maybe.

Currently on Vicodin 5/500 and 400 of ibuprofen. The chipmonk cheeks are developing nicely.

Was hoping they'd put me out for it, at least, but oh no...local only. Unfortunately local anesthetic = I remember every excruciating detail.

Fuckers.

I'm not sure if it was cooincidence or really worked, but when I had it done, someone told me to remove the gauze, and replace it with Tea bags. If you're not troubled by Tea, you may give it a try. My bleeding reduced immedaitely, and stopped altogether soon after.

may be worth a try.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » January 28, 2004, 8:58 pm

had all 4 pulled myself and yes it hurt but trust me you won't regret it later.

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 28, 2004, 9:01 pm

Venti wrote:
Traz-KOE wrote:Still waiting on them to stop bleeding so I can take the gauze out and get a nap, maybe.

Currently on Vicodin 5/500 and 400 of ibuprofen. The chipmonk cheeks are developing nicely.

Was hoping they'd put me out for it, at least, but oh no...local only. Unfortunately local anesthetic = I remember every excruciating detail.

Fuckers.
I'm not sure if it was cooincidence or really worked, but when I had it done, someone told me to remove the gauze, and replace it with Tea bags. If you're not troubled by Tea, you may give it a try. My bleeding reduced immedaitely, and stopped altogether soon after.

may be worth a try.

Yeah wet tea bags not dry...tea causes a bit of vasoconstriction reducing blood flow in the local capillaries...

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » January 28, 2004, 9:05 pm

mine are coming in atm...i think they're going to be straight enough for me to keep them though...keeping my fingers crossed

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 28, 2004, 9:13 pm

Gene Simmons wasn't phased by his wisdom teeth being pulled and did a concert the same night:

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » January 28, 2004, 9:55 pm

lmao

but seriously can someone tell me what's the point of pulling all your wisdom teeth?
I kept mine till they started to be too expensive to keep healthy, had fillings in all 4 at one point.
Don't remember pulling them (not all at once) to be especially painful either, certainly not requiring stitches

Mawafu · Post by **Mawafu** » January 28, 2004, 10:10 pm

Had all 4 of mine taken out when I was 18. Bottom 2 were impacted and the top 2 were fine. Doc said if I only had the bottom 2 taken out (which was necessary) the top 2 wouldn't stop growing or grow the rest of the way crooked since they had nothing to match up to. /shrug

I just remember it hurting like hell for the next week even through the pain meds and ice bag that was permanently stuck to my cheeks.

Post by **Xouqoa** » January 28, 2004, 10:13 pm

If you don't pull them and you have had braces in the past, they can fuck up all the teeth in front of them and waste thousands of dollars in orthodontics.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » January 28, 2004, 11:27 pm

Yeah, mine didn't come in straight and pushed my bottom front teeth out of alignment, should have had them out years ago. Had one pulled w/ just novacaine in the chair..

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » January 28, 2004, 11:27 pm

All 4 of my wisdom teeth were impacted. Had to have them out so my orthodontics work could be completed. Yay? Fortunately, they put me totally under, but I had enough other teeth pulled that I know what it would have been like. Big teeth, small mouth (shaddup, peanut gallery).

Val/dem drip in the IV was much

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 28, 2004, 11:35 pm

Demerol is God...

I swear they put the phenergan in it so you fall asleep and don't enjoy the demerol quite as much...It would be so easy to get addicted to Demerol alone...

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 28, 2004, 11:52 pm

Im an evolved human being, i was born without wisdom teeth or an appendix.

...shit, i just opened myself up for so many flames

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » January 29, 2004, 1:28 am

i had all 4 removed at once when i was like 20. they put me under via iv drip and i woke up a half hour later in a chair with a mouthful of gauze. they'd shot my mouth full of painkiller so i could go home, have some soup and pop some pain pills. i just lounged around with ice and pills for the next couple of days, but that's it.

my favorite part of the experience was the follow up appointment a week later when they give you that plastic syringe to squirt warm water into the holes... omfg that felt orgasmic.

Laliana · Post by **Laliana** » January 29, 2004, 1:33 am

Arborealus wrote:Demerol is God...

Holy shit, hell yeah!

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » January 29, 2004, 3:40 am

Arborealus wrote:Demerol is God...

I swear they put the phenergan in it so you fall asleep and don't enjoy the demerol quite as much...It would be so easy to get addicted to Demerol alone...

My mom has stories of me CLUTCHING my bottle of liquid Dem when I compounded my leg, saying something to the effect of YOU CAN'T FUCKING HAVE IT BACK

Sillentfists · Post by **Sillentfists** » January 29, 2004, 5:34 am

I went to the dentist few days ago and found out i have 6 wisdom teeth =p Said it was a rare case and doesnt really ever happen. So ya i got that going for me.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » January 29, 2004, 5:50 am

took mine out myself with a pair of pliers and a ball peen hammer. you guys went to dentists?

Badpassion Seelentrinker · January 29, 2004, 5:59 am

Same here Vaemas.
I was put to sleep while they removed mine the drug of choice then was tylenol3 w/codine. I hope you have the lovely icepacks and enjoy soup

Why have them removed well if they are impacted your mouth is too small for the extra teeth, therefore they wont grow in correctly. So you big mouths out there havent a problem..hehe

Laliana · Post by **Laliana** » January 29, 2004, 6:58 am

OMG who let Silli in???

He's like a

irl

kyoukan wrote:took mine out myself with a pair of pliers and a ball peen hammer. you guys went to dentists?

Don't give him any ideas...he'll do it, then we will have to hear about it in guildchat

Knibble · Post by **Knibble** » January 29, 2004, 8:42 am

/comforts Traz

Ya had mine out to.Just wait till you get a noodle stuck in that socket when you eat soup.Its really fun getting that out.Cause your not suppose to suck.Did they tell you no sucking Traz? You must not suck the food out of the holes or you could look like this

Syenye Squirrellyelf · January 29, 2004, 10:13 am

Pahreyia wrote:
Traz-KOE wrote:Still waiting on them to stop bleeding so I can take the gauze out and get a nap, maybe.

Currently on Vicodin 5/500 and 400 of ibuprofen. The chipmonk cheeks are developing nicely.

Was hoping they'd put me out for it, at least, but oh no...local only. Unfortunately local anesthetic = I remember every excruciating detail.

Fuckers.
*Snap!* *Crackle!* *Pop!*

When I had mine removed they put me under. I woke up a couple hours later and started walking out the door... I was halfway to the car before the nurse noticed and ran back to get me.

The doctor said something afterwards, but all I wanted to do was get in the car and go home.

Bastard oral surgeons.

they put you under and they were going to let you drive home? that's scary.

i got mine removed when i was 16. they didn't put me all the way under and i kept waking up. no local anesthetic, so i felt it and remember it. still have nightmares about it.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 29, 2004, 10:27 am

Had all 4 of mine out at once and had to go to work afterwards. Took the dentist all of ~20 minutes to get them out and I was out the door.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » January 29, 2004, 10:35 am

I got mine removed in 1999 at the age of 26. They just gave me locals. After one was pulled, the power to the building went out and the had to wait 20 minutes for it to come back up. Novocaine never really worked fully on me and with those back teeth, they really have to shoot a lot. I felt a lot of pain for those final three. I actually kept the teeth and bits of my jaw were still stuck beteween teh roots which had curled around it. I was given vicodin and ibuprofen and skipped work for a week although I felt fine after a day.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 29, 2004, 11:49 am

Knibble wrote:Cause your not suppose to suck.Did they tell you no sucking Traz?

There goes his social life

Klydon · Post by **Klydon** » January 29, 2004, 12:20 pm

I had my lowers pulled in boot camp. Actually got a good doctor that gave me a shot of novicane on each side and then waited for it to take partial effect before giving more shots. Teeth came out fine.

I think I was more worried about the shots than the teeth pulling. I had gotten 7 shots before (one after another) including through the roof of my mouth and I think that hurt worse than any pulling done.

We had a guy get 5 teeth taken out including 2 that got cut out and he was messed up for a week. His pillow was a mess after each night for a couple of days after that.

Pulling is not so bad.. when they have to cut them out is when it is some serious pain.

There was a guy I used to work with when I was still in that hated needles so bad that he never took anesthetics for any dental work. He was a wierd one and I think he sort of liked it.

Calixte · Post by **Calixte** » January 29, 2004, 12:22 pm

I had all four of mine pulled in early 2002... it was a miserable experience. They were all impacted and needed to be cut out and one of them was infected. I was *supposed* to be knocked out, but the dentist thought I "looked comfortable enough" to keep me awake through the whole thing. Granted, I really couldn't feel much pain when he was pulling them, but I could feel the pressure and hear the scraping, and that was enough to freak me out. However, I was so drugged all I could do was grunt.

About an hour or so after the surgery, I was hurting. I remember coming home and falling onto the bathroom floor as a wave of dizziness/nausea hit me. The queasiness eventually subsided, but I was in extreme pain for about a week/week and a half. I was taking two 750mg of hydrocodone every 3 hours, and was also on anti-nausea pills/antibiotics (for the infection). My dentist gave me a syringe that I was supposed to clean the holes out with every time I ate something, and I did, but I still ended up with two dry sockets. Those are fun, too.

Personally, I hated the way the painkillers made me feel. I was incredibly loopy...very, very out of touch with everything (not to mention tired, those things knocked me out). I remember I tried playing EQ right after I took some and, well... there are a few people who remember how that went. Myself, I barely remember what I said or what I did, but I do remember the colors in game seemed so.... bright.... ooohh....

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » January 29, 2004, 12:57 pm

I've had dentists telling me I need all 4 of mine removed for 20 years. Never had the time or the inclination to; I will bite the bullet this year and have it done when work isn't busy (yah, right

). The pressure on the right side has set up a slight ringing in the ear that is annoying as hell.

And yes my orthodontic work has been slightly messed up by the pressure of these rogue teeth.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » January 29, 2004, 1:34 pm

Calixte wrote:I was taking two 750mg of hydrocodone every 3 hours, and was also on anti-nausea pills/antibiotics (for the infection).

Heh, you'd be dead w/ that amount

I only had my bottom two pulled. Initially, the orthodontist suggested I get all four pulled, top two exposed but crooked and the bottom two impacted. My mother, a dental hygientist all her life, felt I should wait. Lo and behold, the top two straightened themselves out and the bottom two, while not growing in straight, eventually exposed themselves. Waiting for the shots to take effect took longer than the procedure. Pretty sure my recovery only included advil and ice cream.

took mine out myself with a pair of pliers and a ball peen hammer. you guys went to dentists?

Was that before or after you were marooned on a deserted isle for 18 months?

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » January 29, 2004, 1:36 pm

I had all four of them removed two summers ago....man what a bitch, I couldn't eat anything but soup for like 2 weeks ><

Altho I think the chipmunk cheeks were kinda cute!

Post by **Sylvus** » January 29, 2004, 1:37 pm

You all make me laugh with your tales of relatively painless wisdom teeth removal. While getting them pulled and the subsequent pain is no picnic, the abscess I ended up getting 2-3 weeks later was by far the most terrible pain I have ever felt. Worse than when my appendix burst.

My cheek swelled (i'm more partial to "swoll", who can i petition about that) up to about 2x the size it got when I first had my wisdom teeth removed. I had to go back into the oral surgeon and have him slice my healing gums back open and stuff some sort of a rubber "drain" in there. When he did that, they gave me a couple shots of novocaine that didn't even come close to dulling the pain. As the doctor was poking and prodding and slicing and stuffing, and my knuckles were white and tears were streaming down my cheeks, the nurse had this horrified look on her face and she mouthed the words "I'm so sorry" to me.

Just thinking back on the harrowing ordeal is somewhat terrifying.

Calixte · Post by **Calixte** » January 29, 2004, 2:29 pm

Chidoro wrote: Heh, you'd be dead w/ that amount

Hmmm.... I could swear that's what I had, but there is a possibility it was 500. I was a little flakey during the time, and I can't say I remember much.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » January 29, 2004, 4:01 pm

I can see the advantage of having them removed now, still it's perplexing why the hell would mother nature bestow on us such a useless thing as wisdom teeth. Or appendix for that matter. Or body hair.
Evolution is soo slow

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 29, 2004, 4:48 pm

Wisdom Teeth 101

http://www.dentalwisdom.com/PatientGuid ... teeth.html

A basic info page on them.

Traz-KOE · Post by **Traz-KOE** » January 29, 2004, 5:05 pm

Calixte wrote:
Chidoro wrote: Heh, you'd be dead w/ that amount
Hmmm.... I could swear that's what I had, but there is a possibility it was 500. I was a little flakey during the time, and I can't say I remember much.

It was probably 7.5/750 (7.5 mg hydrocodone, 750mg acetaminophen).

I have the weak 5/500 stuff, but it's doing its job.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » January 29, 2004, 6:04 pm

Ennia wrote:I can see the advantage of having them removed now, still it's perplexing why the hell would mother nature bestow on us such a useless thing as wisdom teeth. Or appendix for that matter. Or body hair.
Evolution is soo slow

Evolution relies on selective breeding, which is why our jaws are getting smaller (cause it's cuter), but who chooses a mate based on their wisdom teeth...?

Oh yeah, and our jaws evolving as smaller is what makes wisdom teeth a problem in the first place..

Drasta · Post by **Drasta** » January 29, 2004, 10:19 pm

hehehe i had mine cut out while i was awake about a week and a half ago .. first day was the worst after that i was fine ... its interesting listening to them cut them in half and stuff while your totally concious and feeling them pull on them but not feeling it ... i didn't bleed any when i got home after i took my gause out your not gonna be able to open your mouth worth shit for like a week it took me 40 mins to eat a chic-fil-a sandwitch like 5 days after i got mine out it blew ass

CalandraWindrose · Post by **CalandraWindrose** » January 30, 2004, 8:15 pm

How bad the whole experience is - is partly dependent on how impacted they are or are not and how much they have to dig, cut etc ugh

having my wisdom teeth out ranks as one of my all time most horrible personal experiences - I had general and WOKE UP part way through and as they tried to put me back under the horrible burning in my hand and arm from the IV meds made me become hysterical and really you don't want any more info

I later had other oral surgery under a local and recovered in like a day and a half so go figure

my sister waited too long to have them out - partly ruined some very expensive ortho work :/

OH yah and PS you don't want those little blood clot plugs to come out - so don't suck!

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 30, 2004, 8:22 pm

Having my wisdom teeth out were probably the easiest dental experience I've ever had. 5 minutes tops from chair to out the door. I was supposed to be gassed to relax me, but the dentist said he was out (wtf?) so it was just a couple needles followed by a little asian guy basically getting on top of me with a pair of pliers and a sucking sound accompanied by some pressure (not pain) in my jaw.

Later that day when the freezing was wearing off I had a heck of a headache, but by the next day I was ok. Didn't like the feeling of having 4 holes in my mouth tho.

Zygar_ Cthulhukin · Post by **Zygar_ Cthulhukin** » January 30, 2004, 8:58 pm

Had no roots for any wisdom teeth, seriously. Only downside is that I had no root for a regular molar on the left side so I'm short a tooth. No big deal tho, unless a Dorito happpens to get stabbed down into the gums. OW!