Wisdom Teeth

[GoreBag]

Today was the day. I wasn't allowed to eat for six hours before the procedure to have them removed, lest I gag and choke on my own vomit whilst unconscious. Gruesome to keep my attention.

Anyway, I stayed up until around 7:30 and crashed after having a bowl of cereal. After making it to the appointment, I was hooked up to an array of gadgets not altogether unlike the everything-meters from the original Star Trek. A nurse entered and prepped my arm with some surgical tubing to make my veins protrude. It actually kind of hurt. Heroin must be quite the job to pull that off with only one arm with which to do it.

Anyway, the needle hurt more than I remember any needle ever hurting. The nurse suddenly adopted a worried tone and asked, "Does that sting?"
"Not really. Well, it does now that you're tapping it."
"Yeah...your vein blew."
"'Blew'?"
"Yeah."
"What do you mean, 'blew'?"
"Well, sometimes when the needle enters, it damages the vein."
"So...I'm bleeding out?"
"Uh...yeah. But it coagulates quickly. You're okay."
"I've never had a vein severed before."
She chuckled. "Not severed. A little cut."

I figured it was a laceration of some kind. Anyway, on to the right hand, which went smoothly and far less...achefully. The knockout drug they used was very cold - I could feel it course up my arm slowly. Again, a mental comparison with heroin was in order. I developed a body buzz within a few seconds.

The surgeon appeared as it was being pumped into my system. He asked, "How do you feel?"
"I'm getting a body buzz...and it's cold."
"A body buzz?"
"Yeah..."

I don't remember anything from before the procedure after that.

Waking up, though, was a different experience. I was angry - furious, even. I don't recall myself, but I do recall being told that I punched the nurse in my rage. Everything after that is me staggering out of the office, bleeding from the mouth and steaming out the ears.

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Well, that's my odyssey. Someone else share?

[Ianofsmeg16]

I aint had my wisdom teeth pulled yet, but I'll always remember the last thing i said to the anaesthetic guys before my Appenidictomy...

"Wow, It DOES taste like salt and Vinegar..."

[Kralizec]

Never needed to go to the dentist for wisdom teeth, if I even have any (not everybody does)

The dentist did have to pull out 2 teeth of mine when I was 13-ish because they wouldn't fall out by themselves. The needle felt kinda stingy. The procedure was pretty much without pain but the sound of your teeth being torn from your jaw is unnerving.

Also had to go to the doctor once to clip away a piece of toenail that kept growing in. Anaesthetics of course, then doc proceeds to cut away wich doesn't hurt one bit but you know it should...and then blood. Lots of blood. He put so much bandage on it that it was like I had a tennisball growing out of my foot. Still it beats walking around with a festering toe with an ingrown nail, though.

[matteus the inbred]

i had a lot of teeth pulled when i was young, and the injections into the gums were the painful bit...it sodding HURTS!!!! then you wander about feeling like you've just had a bad trip for hours...the dentist was one of incredibly unsympathetic 'hates small boys' type of dentist that you get in English public schools.
my wisdom teeth have mostly come through but i'm hoping i won't need to have them taken out...well, not after reading all that anyway

[Fragony]

Ok now I am confused, in dutch it is called 'verstandskies' which translates into 'wisdomteeth', but 'verstand' is actually short for 'verre stand', which just means their position in the mouth.

Hey germaanse strijder, such wisdom in your sig!

[Ironside]

I've pulled out two of my wisdom teeth, both in the lower jaw and four regular teeth.

My wisdom teeth was growing so flawed so I needed to operate them out compared to only pulling them out. My dentist asked about choise of operation (I could choose to be narcoted, but felt that it was too much to bother with) and I picked sedatives, mostly because I was curious how it felt. It was interesting as even if you made you brain worked up, the body was like "Uhm shut up brain! Where's the bed?"

Anyway in with the needle with (local) anaesthesic and off we go. Unfourtunatly the dentist had to drill the tooth apart and pick up the roots to get it up. Not to problematic except that a nerve was just below the tooth, and that it just wouldn't be numbed.
So every time the dentist drilled I was feeling an extreme pain. 5 needles later (as the anaesthesic helped a little but hardly enough for that nerve) and a long period of unbearable pain the tooth was finally gone. It was a weird tooth anyway, it had an very small extra tooth attached to it.

1 week later it was going back to the dentist for the other wisdom tooth...



That went fine, the most painful thing was the needle with anaesthesic. Why you always pick the estimated worst choise first. The second time will always be better, or atleast should be better.

[Proletariat]

Do you have thick, exposed veins, NeonGod? Sometimes people who are a little more chubby or geriatrics with loose, baggy skin are much harder to stick than a young person who drinks lots of water since their veins aren't always visible. She prolly just didn't know what she's doing, though.

[GoreBag]

Do you have thick, exposed veins, NeonGod? Sometimes people who are a little more chubby or geriatrics with loose, baggy skin are much harder to stick than a young person who drinks lots of water since their veins aren't always visible. She prolly just didn't know what she's doing, though.

I'm 18 and slim. It may or may not have to do with her telling me to squeeze my hand into a fist repeatedly, how tight the tubing was...whatever. She was a bit of a wanker anyway. There seems to be no damage now, as I type this.

[Sardo]

I had mine - all four of them - surgically removed more than six years ago now, somewhere around 4 January 2000; I was 15. Rather than pulled out by a dentist, they were cut out before they even surfaced, so as to make sure they didn't distort the position of the rest of my teeth. Making sure all the money spent on the braces wasn't wasted, you know.

The worst part of the whole thing were the huge cotton things hanging from my mouth when I woke up, for the bleeding I suppose. It looked quite ridiculous, as I could tell from the boy lying in the opposite bed. Not too much pain in all, though, from what I can remember. The good part, on the other hand, was the pretty girl in the bed next to me.

And of course all the non-solid food I could have, in the form of pudding and the like.

One or two days later, however, my grandfather died. That kind of dampened the mood, I suppose.

[BDC]

Mine are coming in fine. I even when to the dentists to make sure they were.

So that was an anti-climax.

[Quid]

Wisdom teeth - yes. Never a nice experience. I had mine pulled over the course of two weeks. We don't do the whole knock out anaesthetics here; just the local one. Hence it took two weeks for the first two gaping holes to mend.

Anyway, one of my wsidom teeth wasn't really having a great time anymore and started decaying to the point of severe pain. So I finally decided to visit the good 'ole dentist and have the lot of them removed.

There were about 4 or 5 injections (I don't really recall; and don't want to) all from different angles. Quite unnerving, really. I had heard horrendous stories by my mum when she had one of those buggers removed. It was her fifth (!!!!!) one and not really growing as it had been planned by nature. Well, to cut this little anectode short, she left over two hours later - minus a little piece of jaw, one dislocated dentist's shoulder and the wisdom tooth.

Ok, where was I...right, you can imagine I wasn't exactly playing the macho. Growing paler by the minute. Hearing the revolting sounds and crackle of my tooth slowly being relieved of my jaw; not nice. After having had the 'difficult' one pulled, after about half an hour, I was given ample time to recover. Had I got up right there and then, I would have had to be collected be the dentist himself. I wasn't feeling great...at all.

Well, the other tooth wasn't much of a big deal anymore as I had already experienced the worst. So in order to clelebrate my misery, I decided to invite some mates for Mexican that evening. I know, I know, I wasn't supposed to eat anyhting substantial but you know, I WAS hungry.

Quid

[GoreBag]

I had mine - all four of them - surgically removed more than six years ago now, somewhere around 4 January 2000; I was 15. Rather than pulled out by a dentist, they were cut out before they even surfaced, so as to make sure they didn't distort the position of the rest of my teeth. Making sure all the money spent on the braces wasn't wasted, you know.

I'd gotten a colour diagram explaining how that process works. It's kind of funny how it works. He needs to cut your gums, then peel them back, revealing the jawbone, where he can then dig the offending tooth right out. Wonderfully inspiring pamphlet, that was.

[Ser Clegane]

I've pulled out two of my wisdom teeth, both in the lower jaw and four regular teeth.

My wisdom teeth was growing so flawed so I needed to operate them out compared to only pulling them out. My dentist asked about choise of operation (I could choose to be narcoted, but felt that it was too much to bother with) and I picked sedatives, mostly because I was curious how it felt. It was interesting as even if you made you brain worked up, the body was like "Uhm shut up brain! Where's the bed?"

Anyway in with the needle with (local) anaesthesic and off we go. Unfourtunatly the dentist had to drill the tooth apart and pick up the roots to get it up. Not to problematic except that a nerve was just below the tooth, and that it just wouldn't be numbed.
So every time the dentist drilled I was feeling an extreme pain. 5 needles later (as the anaesthesic helped a little but hardly enough for that nerve) and a long period of unbearable pain the tooth was finally gone. It was a weird tooth anyway, it had an very small extra tooth attached to it.

1 week later it was going back to the dentist for the other wisdom tooth...

Interesting - it was pretty much the same for me when I was 14 or so. The jaw-bone had to be opened to remove the teeth. The wisdom teeth had not even developed roots at that stage yet, so it was a bit tricky for the dentist to get hold of them to break them apart and remove them.
Each of the two "sessions" lasted for about 2 hours - quite a nasty experience...