re: Wisdom teeth advice

Go under the gas won't cut it.

I had my wisdom teeth removed 3 months ago and didn't get put under.... it wasn't bad at all

You want all the anesthesia, all the Demerol and all the Valium you can get. That's my advice.

I was 29 when I got mine out, I was having terrible headaches. I was not put to sleep, but wish I would have been. The noises you hear are the worst part but with the drugs they give you, you really don't give a frick.

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Damn. Those are both very expensive imaging techniques. You're the first person I've heard of getting either of those for your teeth. 

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They say it's rare, but not unusual. Just depends on where the nerves are. But again it's all covered.

Hol on, hol on,

Years ago, as a young Nashviller getting by as a tour guide, I needed all four out.

Long/short: There was a recent story on anesthesia frick ups. I was poor and paranoid about dying from tooth, so I went to the old teaching hospital on 1st that shall henceforth be called Castle Grayskull.

So there I was, in my stupid tour guide tie, waiting alongside ten orange jump-suited inmates for questionable health care.

I will never, ever forget the dentist having to use his full weight to torque bones out my face. "Give me a number something" he asked the nurse.

Later that day, in the trashiest moment of my life, I dragged a couch into the backyard, drank a 40 and took Vicodin.

Moral: Get knocked the hell out.

Four impacted all surgically removed whilst I was under general anesthesia.

Age 23

Two days of haziness afterwards, then a couple of days of medium duty activity (including the sects) then I was good-to-go.

I had shards of tooth fragments surface intermittently for several months following the surgery.

I had a marginally easier time with the Wisdom Teeth extractions than the later Tonsilectomy at Age 33.

A former Army dentist pulled 2 of mine (pulled not cut). He used Novocaine and Nitrous. He kept reaching back with his left hand cranking up the gas every few minutes. At one point I woulda sworn I was floating just beneath the fluorescent lights on the ceiling.

A 3rd was pulled by my cousin a dentist using Novocaine alone. Never felt a thing not even when I heard the "snap" of the root when he cut it.

My 4th is still present. It's lying on it's side wedged into the root of the molar adjacent. Like the OP x-ray of the lower left but mine being angled such that the face of the wisdom tooth is flat against the roots and under that cap of the molar. Was told it will have to be resectioned to be removed (cut up and each piece removed) but most of the dentists around here use compressed air tools which could lead to an air embolism.


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Op needs to start on periodontal disease routine. Those white bits between the teeth and below the gum line should not be there. Later on if untreated it requires surgery to peel the gums away to scrape that crap out then sew the gums back in place.

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Those look particularly nasty and their is no way that I would remove them without conscious sedation.

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you'd be lucky to be half the dentite that is 911moto