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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just got my wisdom teeth out and my face is still numb and I have to have this big bandage thing wrapped around my head. It's kind of awful. Does anyone else here have some stories to share about getting their wisdom teeth removed?

[(Anonymous)]

My wisdom teeth removal was fucking awful. I had three impacted (is that the term? They needed to cut my gums and pull them out and there were stitches) and one just pulled. I ended up getting infections and dry socket and was in terrible pain for a stupid long time. I think I was out of school for about a week. I lived off of jello and spaghetti o's, as I could barely move my jaw so just had to eat things I could pour down my throat. Good times!

Turns out about a month after I got mine taken out the place I went to was shut down due to malpractice or something.

Good luck with yours and I hope you're one of the lucky ones that the swelling goes down and pain goes away quickly!

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh. My sister had dry socket after having her wisdom teeth out, and then she wound up with clove poisoning after swallowing some of the zinc eugenol they treated it with. It was kind of frightening for a while and the oral surgeon totally denied everything.

[(Anonymous)]

Clove poisoning is a thing? As in clove oil derived from the sort of cloves you cook with? I mean, I know the oil would be poisonous in a large enough dose, but I've used it to numb toothaches for years, because I can't afford to go to the dentist (someday I'll land a job with dental benefits). Or is this something else?

[inkdust]

After I woke up, my mom and I stopped at the pharmacy on the way home to get my pain pills and had to wait a while for them to fill the prescription, so we sat in the car and my mom told me she would read to me from the book she brought. Apparently she read for like half an hour, but all I remember is her finishing and asking what I thought, and I told her, slurring, "That was great...but I have no idea what you said." Then we went home and I threw up from the anesthesia. After that I was fine, no real pain at all. Best of luck with the recovery :)

[starphotographs]

Mine were really impacted, so I needed actual outpatient surgery. Except the surgical team was late for some reason, so I spent an hour more on IV fluids than actually planned.

I was kind of pissed that I didn't get to keep my teeth, and they gave me codeine that didn't do anything. :/

[feathercircle]

I actually had room for all my wisdom teeth and they came in just fine, but it turned out that I also had several supernumerary (ie, extra) teeth which were impacted in my jaw so the dentist went and took all of them at the same time.

[writerserenyty]

I have permanent nerve damage from it. I got them out years ago and the right half of my tongue is still numb.

Though this is super rare so I doubt it'll be a thing for you!

[(Anonymous)]

You're not going to like mine. I got an IV, went to sleep, woke up half an hour or so later and they were gone. I think I used maybe one of the pain pills that the oral surgeon prescribed, and I had no complications. The worst part was that I had stitches in my gums and couldn't stop poking them with my tongue even though that felt really weird and gross.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I did this too, and don't regret it one bit though I did have a bad reaction coming out of the anesthetic; I am never ever getting the fast-acting stuff again. They used dissolving stitches on mine.

[(Anonymous)]

I had a fairly good experience, all things considered. I was pretty loopy for the actual extraction (and luckily for me, my teeth weren't impacted), and then everything just ached for several weeks. I do remember the dentist asking me what I wanted to do with the teeth, because apparently some people want to take them home... I kind of slurred, "Whaadaya do if I don' wan' em?" He answered that they get given to dental schools for student practice.

Anyway, hang in there, anon! It will get better, it just really aches at first.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, let's see:

--While I was under anesthesia, there was some bleeding they had trouble stopping. Then they found out the oxygen monitor on my finger (?) had slipped off, and my oxygen levels had dropped and they had to stop and bring them back up. So they decided to quit before anything else went wrong, WITHOUT REMOVING ALL THE TEETH. I still have one.
--But they did get the one that was right next to a nerve in my lower jaw, and the sensation in half my lower lip is still screwed up five years later. It feels kind of inside-out. :/
--For some reason, after the surgery, one of the removal spots swelled up like I had a marble stuffed into the side of my mouth.

[(Anonymous)]

...what do you have a bandage for? It's your teeth, not your jaw o_O

Anyway, the dentist got my parents to pay for all 4 of my wisdom teeth to be taken out, despite the top two having had enough room. My bottom two were impacted, though, and they took a little while to heal up. They put me under, I woke up in the recovery room long enough to get to the car, and then I hunkered down on the couch at home and dozed on and off. My dad bought me a shake. I think the most annoying part about it all was after the stitches were out, they gave me a plastic syringe to clean food out of the pockets. Gross gross gross.

My partners advice: don't poke the stitches. It'll invite infection and it'll take even longer to heal. Leave 'em alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes they pressure wrap your head/jaw with Ace wrap to relieve pain/inflammation.

[(Anonymous)]

I had 4 out in one go. I was unpleasant. Invest in one of those awesome double sided gel ice packs if you're prone to swelling. I had two and I rotated them constantly so my face wasn't hot and throbbing.

I also had some further complications - one of my teeth was right near the nerve that runs along the edge of the jaw. I still get twinges sometimes. I also had a pretty bad accident that broke my jaw years ago so taking the tooth out made everything less stable. My surgeon gave me some weird new bone replacement cement stuff to fill in the gaps in my jaw. My swelling took over a month to go down.

I didn't get dry socket or any infections though! I followed the instructions pretty well. No smoking. No touching the stitches. No forceful spitting or sucking (can dislodge clots). Basically just act like you have no muscles in your mouth. Let the food and drink come to you. When you rinse, just tilt your head to rinse the stitches - don't try to move the mouthwash around with your mouth. Let everything you have to spit out just sort of run out of your mouth. Clean your mouth every single time you eat something. Even when you go back to work and you are the freak brushing your teeth in the employee bathroom.

All of this is gross, but there you go. Get comfy and put some good movies on.

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird. Everything else about my teeth sucks. I had and have so many cavities despite brushing three times a day and flossing and all that, I had extra teeth as a kid and still have holes where some of my adult teeth didn't come in because they didn't exist, and I had four impacted wisdom teeth--but having them out wasn't that bad. I refused to be put under because I was terrified I might not wake up, so they just pumped me full of novocaine. It was gross watching my blood go everywhere, including all over the poor dentist, when he was breaking them out (the cracking noises were the worst), but I didn't even fill my vicodin prescription afterwards and the holes healed fine. I remember on the ride home the car was stopped at a light and someone in the next car over did the most awesome double take, I must have looked like a puffer fish and I was drooling blood everywhere.

[akacat]

I had twilight anesthesia for mine; all four (impacted) teeth out at once.

I don't know how common it is, but when I get the twilight stuff I a) remember some of what goes on (but don't get stressed about it) and b) act like a mostly-cooperative, bored, and rather stoned 5yo. Highlights include:

A) "Hey, I can feel that!": apparently said far more than the one time I remember, (I was told it happened throughout the extraction of a badly impacted tooth that they had to use a chisel to break up and extract?!) The time I can remember, I just meant it as a point of interest/curiosity -- all I could feel was a low-pitched vibration that extended beyond my entirely numb jaw -- but apparently I freaked out the oral surgeon the first time or two that I said it.

B) "Fix it?" said with a pleading look while holding out the Walkman/radio they'd given me to try to keep me entertained. My attempts to change the volume, tune in different stations, and get stations tuned in better all went ridiculously awry, and left me with very loud static blaring over the headset. (I remember being baffled at the concept that there was more than one control, and the idea that any of the controls could be used to adjust anything in more than one direction was entirely beyond me.) At one point the assistant said she'd confiscate it if I didn't stop messing with it. I have no idea if she did or not, lol.

C) "I can walk!" said as they were helping me into a wheelchair to shift me somewhere to wake up a bit. (Hint: no, I couldn't.)

D) Ok, this is from an entirely different surgery, but it sort of cracks me up: I was having something done to my feet, and there was a "surgical drape"/curtain near my knees, both to help keep the surgery area sterile and (probably) keep people from watching and freaking out. However, I was curious so I kept reaching forward and lifting the curtain aside to watch. Each time, the surgeon or assistant would tell me to stop it for reasons, and the assistant would move it back into place. I think they finally just gave up and let me keep watching, but I'm not sure.

Back on the teeth: I was pretty well knocked out for the entire rest of the day. I remember I was in my dad's recliner from ~noon until very late in the evening, just drifting in and out. (Apparently the pain meds were better at keeping me inactive than the twilight stuff was!) I don't remember getting from the recliner to bed that night, but I woke up in bed the next morning. Except for being sort of achey/sore for 3-4 days, relying on soft food, and not being able to keep from poking my tongue at things, I felt fine from then on.

Next monday I have to get a regular molar yanked, with just Valium instead of my old buddy twilight anesthesia. I'm just a little freaked out about it -- thank goodness it's just one tooth, not impacted, and already root-canaled. (I'd had a crown on it, but the crown came off several days ago, and took most of the tooth that was above the gumline with it. Remember kids, don't grind your teeth constantly. Apparently that's not a thing root-canaled teeth can withstand.)

[darkmanifest]

Got two on one side out, both impacted, and barely remember the procedure, even though they didn't put me under. No complications afterward, but before I went in, I spent months spamming ibuprofen because one tooth was apparently leaning on a nerve, and with that combined with an ill-timed ear infection, I was in pounding-my-head-on-the-floor pain. After that, having teeth ripped out of my head and bloody holes in my mouth was like a vacation.

[(Anonymous)]

If you go far enough back on my tumblr, there is a five-paragraph essay about how much I missed eating bread.

They gave me the niiiiiiice painkillers.

[tei]

I pretty much hate feeling "drugged" (I really don't like being drunk or high either) so as soon as I started feeling fuzzy from the anesthetic, I decided the best course of action would be to try to get up and run away. So they grabbed me and had to give me way more to get me out before I got away :P

The actual operation went fine for me. The problem came a few months later-- I play a wind instrument and I was doing a really intense summer music program where I was playing at least eight hours a day, every day. They had told me to wait a month before playing, which I did, because the back pressure from blowing into an instrument can force the blood clots from the sides of your mouth up into your sinuses apparently. Anyway as soon as I started playing again my face got re-infected, swelling, pus everywhere, etc. I couldn't really leave the program or stop playing and my surgeon said the only thing to do was re-open the incisions and drain them. So since I couldn't really do that I just went to a walk-in clinic and got enough antibiotics basically for the next month and a half and just stayed on antibiotics for the entire summer.

SO THAT WAS FUN

[comma_chameleon]

I've only ever had one out (it's the only one that came down below the gumline, and my teeth are already tight, so it basically stopped me from opening my jaw, which sucked ass).

I had local anaesthetics, and about half an hour of the dentist pulling it out with the pliers. Apparently it had three roots when most teeth only have one or two, which was what took so long.

No painkillers, liquid diet for a day or two and then I pretty much forgot I'd even had it out.