So wednesday I have to go and see a oral surgeon about getting my wisdom teeth yanked out. I will be un-able to get it done at the dentist because of the postion of the teeth. Looks like they are to close to some nerves. So my question is to any IWer's that have had there wisdom teeth pulled out. What did you think of the experience and what should I ask for. The general knock out drug where I am still awake. Or should I go right under and go to sleep. I would like to do the general where I am still awake.

Every one seems to react different to this experience which is so fun. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I would go for the knock out one myself. Getting teeth pulled just feels too weird to me. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Did you have any kinda of reaction after you came too. I am a liitle woried about my body having some kind of reaction to it. Last time I went under I puked for 3 hours after.

But I am also not pumpd on being awake and hearing that big pop as my teeth come out. ;)

<font color=ggffcc>Go for the gusto. Do it hardcore! Run to the oral surgeons office, knock out 100 push-ups, lay down in the comfy chair and open wide. When he's down extracting them, do another 100 or so push-ups, and run on back to the hacienda, knock out personal hygeine, and be to work 15 minutes early! All four at once is the only way to go!</font>

Mmmmmm I will take two please. Well yea all four are coming out. But I need drugs. ;)

Oh gee, I dunno. I just remember getting some teeth pulled in the front of my mouth feeling weird enough for me. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
My dad puked for hours after getting a surgery done, and I assume they use the same sort of drugs to put you under. I dunno, you're choice.

I got all four of mine out at one time. I'm a baby about pain in my mouth, so I went for the knockout stuff. I went from "100... 99... " to them taking cotton out of my mouth... worked great for me.

I'm not as militarily tough as Felix, so I skipped the pushups... ;)

Damn! All four of mine are perfectly fine. :mad:

I WANNA HEAR THE POP!

No you really don't. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Drugs are good.

If you need all four, get them done at the same time.

It really isn't that bad.

I was awake for the procedures, which was okay, but bad hearing my dentist commentate about what implements he was using lol. I had each side done separately, which was probably better because I swelled up so much, I wouldn't have been able to eat for days afterward if both sides had been done. It's yucky but you get through it. Having to go back the second time was bad - knowing exactly how long it would take (too long) and how swelled I'd be (like a chipmunk) and how sore it would be (very).

I think the after-effects of having a general anaesthetic would be worse - you would still have the pain and so on afterwards but you'd also have the grogginess. It depends on whether they're impacted though - mine weren't they were just coming through in the wrong direction and ruining all my previous orthodontic work. Maybe if they're impacted a general anaesthetic would be more appropriate.

Well I have one all the way out. That is the one on the top right. So I am thinking thatone will not be to bad. The one on the bottom left is just poking out but it is touching my other tooth. It is also causing some decay. But it is coming in sideways. The other two wisdom teeth are no where to be seen. But on the xray they are in sideways. So maybe they will only do the two that are causing the trouble. I will have to wait and see. Thanks all for the input. ;)

Doing all four at once is best. "Like pulling off a bandaid" as they say. It will hurt a lot after the drugs wear off, no matter which way you go. The meds they give you for the pain are useless, too. You still hurt as much, but you're not allowed to operate vehicles. Go with the general and stay awak for it. It's not so bad, and you'll be so whacked out of your gourd you won't really even hear the popping nor squelching. Just be prepared to eat all your food through a straw for three days. I hope you're not one of those people who likes to talk, either, because you won't be at all intelligble, since you'll dread opening your mouth.

Thanks winter. I like the band-aid therory. I will have to take some time off work. I spend a fair amount of time on the phone. And having two kids I do a fair amount of yelling(I mean talking loud). [img]smile.gif[/img]

Just pray that the doc gets 'em out clean. My dad has had a couple out recently that had to be split and taken out in halves...

I had four teeth out once (not wisdom teeth though) and I had teh full knock-out thing.
The worst bit was teh puking for days afterwards because I swallowed all teh blood.

All you need is a door and some string and it will come out easy. It's also cheaper..

Well, I can't say as my wisdom teeth story is my nicest experience with a dentist! I actually don't mind dentists for just about anything, even root canals aren't enough to send me screaming from the room (although I am NOT fond of them! LOL) but having my wisdom teeth out was a tough one.

I had them all badly impacted and one had to come out in an 'emergency' surgery as it was trying to come in at angle into other teeth. After that hour + of work to remove it, I agreed with my dentist that if I had the others out, it should be all at once or I'd never get them all out and he'd been telling me for years that I should do it.

I had all of the the other 3 out in one marathon 2+ hr surgery and I took the nitrous oxide. Very weird, disassociated feelings there! But I think it made the whole thing mostly tolerable. I had one very swollen and green/blue cheek for a while, was on a narcotic painkiller that I almost got myself addicted to (stopped it cold turkey after I realized I was actually craving it and it had me paranoid and thinking people were following me in the supermarket...percoset..bad stuff for me!) [img]tongue.gif[/img] . Had to go back to have a few stray bits removed that had managed to get down behind a tooth.

Did I mention they had to grind two of the wisdom teeth out of my jawbone? :eek: Yah, it was not a pleasant experience, but once we got the odds and ends tidied up, I was glad it was done! Also very glad I only had to do it for four teeth and never again! :D

Best of luck, Mack!!!

[ 10-18-2005, 08:34 AM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

[img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I should have recorded the grinding noise as they crunched mine into little bits to get them out... very odd sensation, that! Especially on nitrous... I was sort of floating there, knew what they were doing, but felt oddly out of it..sort of like it was me but not really...hard to explain how that stuff works, but it does make you mellow! :D

[ 10-18-2005, 08:32 AM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

That's ok cloudy. I know exactly what the ol' giggle gas does for ya! ;)

[Edit: Just read your post above, Cloudy. *rethinks my stance on having problem free wisdom toofs* What a disaster! I've heard of wisdom teeth having to be cracked and removed in halves, but to be *shudders* ground out. [img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img] I can see why you're glad you don't have to go through it all again. And they only used gas?]

[ 10-18-2005, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: Sever ]

WOW stormy scary stuff. I am thinking gas maybe the way to go. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I have a hard time seeing you addicted to drugs. [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]

OK I need sleep I am home from working nights.. And here I sit at the comp. LOL

LOL, no Sever, they also put me on some major painkillers prior to the surgery to have them in my system and some steroids to help keep swelling down. I shudder to think what the swelling would have been like if I hadn't had those in my system! YIKES! And at the pharmacist, they asked if someone had punched me... LOL, because my face was all swollen and green/blue where the dentist had a particularly hard time reaching the wisdom tooth (it was so far into the jawline he told me not to chew on that side for several weeks, or it might crack my jaw more, due to the amount of tooth they'd pulled out of there- left a nice hole).

Nope, not something I'd ever want to do again and I'm really glad I DID do it all at once and got it over with! :D

Mack, that percoset is good if you can tolerate it, but like a lot of other people, I had trouble with it. I was talking to a guy at my office after my ordeal with it and he told me that his sister was addicted and badly. To the point of getting bogus prescriptions and nearly committing suicide a few times, due to paranoia it can induce. Believe me, I'm VERY glad I went off the stuff before it got worse for me. I really was feeling weird and paranoid on it.

Hurt for a while, though, because I gotta tell ya, plain ol' Tylenol just didn't cut it! [img]tongue.gif[/img] And my dentist forbade aspirin or ibuprofen til the chances of bleeding or clotting were over.

Um...sorry Mack, I bet this is not setting your mind at ease! [img]smile.gif[/img] Hey, if it's any consolation, my dentist told me that my experience is NOT the norm...and I was the second most dificult wisdom tooth surgery he'd ever done.

[ 10-18-2005, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

So who was the winner? :D

I went for the twilight gas (I was not unconscious, but not fully awake) and the word you don't want to hear is impacted...read cloudy's page and a half...I had all four at once and it took 30 mins and I counted backwards from 100...got to 84 and the last thing I heard from the surgeon was the the anethe...the gas doctor behind me(can't spell) was, "You sure that thing's on right?" Nice, eh? But it wasn't too bad afterwards and I was eating soft foods within 3 hours...

Bottom line is each situation is different. If the teeth aren't impacted, it won't be AS bad... but if they have to come out, do you really want to go through everything twice?? Twice the bill, twice the co-pay... just a thought, mate.

Later,

BK

BK is right, I do know some people who just had them pulled and nothing out of the ordinary or even especially painful occured in addition to the ones who had problems, so I wouldn't worry about it overmuch before you have a talk with the dentist!

*Waves to BK* HiHiHi!

Wow some great stories. Now for sure I will have nightmare's thanks. [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]