Just got wisdom teeth removed

[John Q. Mayhem]

It sucks. People told me that with the nitrous it would be all mellow and cool and stuff, but it wasn't. Not being able to think right scared the hell out of me. I was occasionally crying and shaking I was so rfeaked out. I'm still not in the best condition mentally because of pain meds, and so prolly wount be posting much soon.

 

[Crothian]

I can see the being freaked out part. I never had my wisdom teeth pulled, but I've lost other teeth that way and it was not fun. Hope the recopvery is swift and painless.

 

[tarchon]

-2 Wis for each tooth.

 

[Algolei]

Wow, nitrous, that's awful!

I had a great time when my wisdom teeth were removed, but I refused the nitrous and went with simple freezing instead. It took two dentists, a husband and wife team, to pull my teeth. The guy worked for an hour on the right side before he finally got the first one out. The wife, who was about four feet tall and had to stand on an apple crate which she brought in from home, actually planted one foot on my chest, grabbed the teeth with her pliers (whatever dentists call 'em), and yanked those suckers out in under ten seconds!

They gave me a prescription for Tylenol III painkillers, and those things worked great for me.

That night, I went to a movie and ate popcorn. Took my extracted teeth with me to show all my friends. After the movie we went out for coffee. Between ordering my coffee and having it actually show up, the painkiller wore off--I had to pry my teeth apart to get another pill in my mouth, and then I had to swallow it with a mouthful of hot coffee. That part was excruciating. But within 15 minutes, I was back talking up a storm and chugging scalding-hot coffee.

Ah, yes. Having my wisdom teeth removed was one of the high points of my life. It was great!

But then I've always liked suffering. In total, I think I only took four of those tylenol. I gave the rest to my father after his own prescription ran out, and he became addicted to them. (But that's another funny story. )

 

[Ranger REG]

When I had my wisdom tooth pulled, the dentist used novocaine on me. So I was pretty aware, particularly the sound of the drill splitting the tooth in two and being removed in pieces.

What's great afterward is the codeine. Whoo!

 

[Algolei]

Oh yeah, and the grinding sounds!

I loved that. Like grinding your teeth, except someone else is doing it. Really loudly.

 

[JoeBlank]

I just had one wisdom tooth extracted on Tuesday, and it was a relatively easy experience. Novacaine and laughing gas, but not enough of the later. I felt like I was too aware of what was going on, and was stressed about it, but there was very little pain or discomfort, and it went pretty fast.

No pain reliever presciption either, although dentist said he would call one in if I decided I needed it. So far so good, regular Motrin is doing the job. The worst thing to me is getting used to the different feeling in my mouth, I can tell that tooth is gone.

Dentist says I should have the others done too, this one was just starting to give me trouble. Good luck to you.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Anyone experience the smell of burning flesh when their got taken?

I did. They had to dig for mine.

Absolutely disgusting. It didn't leave my nostrils for day. The smell of
me burning alive. And the taste of "burnt pork". Horrible.

And I need to go again. Urgh. Two gone, but two left.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Mine came out really easily... all four in about half an hour. All the dentist used was novacaine. Mine weren't out of whack though, they were justing starting to decay. I probably could have kept them if they weren't.

 

[Napftor]

I had mine out sometime in high school. Was out while the procedure was done and when I wasn't sleeping the rest of the day, I was throwing up the massive amounts of blood I apparently swallowed while unconscious. Not one of my better days.