Wisdom Teeth

That is true. For some reason dentists are far more liberal with painkillers than doctors are. Doctors don’t give you anything decent unless you’re practically dying. :grin:

Hope you feel better soon :smile:

Why is everybody pulling their wisdom teeth out? I’ve never understood it. I like them :tongue:

yeah excuse my ignorance but why do the wisdom teeth need to be pulled, and what exactly are they.

this coming from a person who still possibly has baby teeth in tact somewhere.

(and who is lucky if he brushes twice a week but has never had a cavity)

i really should go to a dentist though for just a general checkup/polish job, it’s been a while… maybe talk them into giving me some nitrous.

I get scared just having a filling.

It only needs to be pulled out if it becomes impacted.

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That’s bad. It means you still run the risk of getting impacted wisdom teeth. Not trying to scare you or anything. :razz:

Both my mother and my aunt never brushed their teeth and ended up with big problems in later life. It is also genetical for our teeth to go bad. But I make sure I brush my teeth at least once a day to ensure that I wont have to suffer to badly as a result. I also use mouth wash to make sure my back teeth are propaly done.

When I was young, the dentist admitted me to hospital after I had adult teeth coming through and my baby teeth wouldn’t budge. I had 4 baby teeth pulled out. All I rememebr is fighting the gas mask away from my face as the stupid doctor forced it onto me. Prehaps, had he warned me I would have been prepared for it.

Usually, they give you a thing (A drug?) that makes you so dosy you are half knocked out. I don’t know what they do for wisdom teeth.

Am I right to asume it hurts because the roots go so far up?

Hey, Shadowless.

I am a survivor, yeah! I went through the same procedure a couple years ago, only I had five wisdom teeth instead of the customary four (or fewer). The procedure wasn’t bad at all–I was under anesthesia, so the only thing I remember is breathing through a mask and then lying in a another room after the procedure was complete. It took awhile for the effects of the drug to wear off, but I was pretty loopy. Apparently I said to my step-dad on the drive back, “It’s a good thing I’m not driving cause we would have crashed by now!” cue goofy drugged grin

The whole thing wasn’t that bad. It was painful afterward, yes, but with the painkillers they’ll prescribe, I’m sure you’ll be just fine.

*Ask for a free milkshake, too, as I got one! Hehe.

And something holy reality wrote:

I needed to get mine taken out in order to free up space. Wisdom teeth can cause crowding, and can mess up your tooth configuration. The only way for me to get braces was to have my wisdom teeth removed. A lot of people have it done.

Ooh, and they also let me keep the teeth! Pretty funky, I must say, getting bits and pieces of five teeth that once were in my mouth. Just watch out for infection later on, Shadowless, and you should be okay. Expect a syringe to clean out the spaces where your teeth used to be, otherwise if your gum heals over those areas and debris is trapped in there, your mouth swells and it’s very painful! (I got the pleasure of experiencing that.)

Gee, I just went on and on about getting wisdom teeth removed. Ay.

Good luck! :wink:

Hello everyone. The procedure went fine and I am making an exceptional recovery. I stayed in bed all of yesterday and played video games all day today (it’s so difficult not being allowed to exercise :wink: ). Apparently I was given some pretty powerful pain killers, but they don’t seem to have much effect on me, but that’s still ok. I haven’t experienced any pain at all and I’ve only taken three pain killers. My cheeks are pretty puffy though.

Thanks everyone for the well-wishing.

I am glad things were not as bad as you expected.
When I had my wisdom teeth out I did not experience much pain either. I only too 2 of the pain killers. One before the novocaine wore off and one when I went to bed. After that I did not need them anymore. I was still sore but not to the point that I need heavy pain killers.

I wish you a speedy recovery.

Wisdom teeth. Heh. Not bad at all.

I loved the Vicodin!

You are afraid of how horrible it will be?!?
THINK OF THE DRUGS!!

I wish I had something like that happen to me cause ive never had any prescription drugs I could abuse

last time i went to the dentist they gave me vallum, and then later that day my mom gave me vikodin. BAD COMBO. :ack: now they want me to go in for a root canal but i dont think im gonna do it. I SHALL NOT GIVE IN TO YOUR MIND CONTROL TOOTH GAMES!

I’ll buy your extra vicodin if you are not going to use them. Heh. Just kidding, but really, I will. :grin:

Believe it or not root canal is not that bad if you have a good dentist. I’ve had that done as well and it was not that bad. I did not even need the pain killers they gave me afterwards.

“yeah excuse my ignorance but why do the wisdom teeth need to be pulled, and what exactly are they.”

On the very very back of your gums quartet of teeth will slowly punch a hole in much the same manner that the molars farthest back did/will, only odds are, they’ll come in screwed up. They tend to cause lots of dental problems and pain, hence why they usually need to come out.

I still have all my wisdom teeth… Someday soon, I’ll have to get them yanked out. They’re all slanted, and one is practically coming in horizontally. I’ve got a rather nasty hole in my left cheek about the size of a pencil eraser, from a combination of it getting worn in by one tooth, and from the other tooth coming in near it. It stopped hurting thankfully, but every now and then starts hurting again.

“And who is lucky if he brushes twice a week but has never had a cavity”

I was just like you, never brushed hardly, and never got a cavity. But once I got close to adulthood, then I started having problems. So it might be something to do with age.

Did you have dental sealants painted in? I did, and that may have been the reason I dodged it for so long. But now I’ve got one on one of my pre-molars.

Hey i had my wisdom teeth surgically removed at the begining of august. The surgery its self is cake… The last thing i remembered was the dentist asking me something about my guitar while he was injecting something into the IV i had in my arm. and then the next thing i remeber is me being pushed to the car in a wheelchair and I couldnt even feel my face at all. and then i wake up and i am in my parents bed and my dad says its time to change the gause in my mouth and for me to have a drink of water. haha it was so hard to get the water in my mouth because my mouth was sooooo numb. and then i took a half a tablet of my oxycodone and woke up about 4 hours later… It never really started hurting until later that night it was really hard to sleep. and then the next day the pain was terrible. I couldnt eat much of anything but apple sauce and tomato soup for about 3 days. but then i could start eating soft stuff. but when i took IB profen that REALLY helped. even better then the pain pills. but thats me… the pain pretty much goes away after about 4 or 5 days.

I went and attended the telluride bluegrass festivel for four days only two days after getting my wisdom teeth pulled :happy:

One of my wisdomteeths has just started to grow out a couple of days ago, and everytime i brush my teeths it starts to hurt and bleed. :[ God I hate wisdom teeths!

I was supposed to get mine pulled about a year before I did get them pulled. I just procrastinate about that stuff because it didn’t hurt. But then after all that time of it not hurting, one day I woke up and I was in horrible pain. I had to schedule a appointment immediatly. Sucked though cause I had to wait two weeks to get it done. So I had trouble chewing on a whole side of my mouth for two weeks.

I thought it was interesting when they were healed enough to eat normal food and touch the sockets and food would get down there. Have to suck it out.

I’m curious. What kind of drugs do they give you after a root canal? I don’t need one. I’m just wondering.

same here, I couldn’t even chew food properly for a couple of days but it’s getting better…
Hopefully I wont have to pull’em out :bored:

I have had a few times where I haven’t been able to chew properly because of them. But I haven’t had them pulled out yet, becuse they usually get well within a few days. And this only happens about once per year.

Dentist strongly suggested I get all mine out.
parents said no u dont need to, I agreed. by the time of my next appointment they already rooted. if i take it out now or much later risk is the same: potential for damaging important nerves and numbness of mouth for life. 1% risk i think, increases when they root (by looks of xrays they go throught the roots!)

bottom already grown, teeth still straight with a little overlap
top teeth not grown, no risk of permanent damage, can be extracted anytime, doc says they won’t grow there’s no room for them
time will tell
thank u for your interest in my teeth :wink: but might help someone out making the decision