Wisdom Teeth

**Byzantine Prince** · 01-27-2006, 14:16

I still have two gaping holes from two weeks ago when I had this operation. Crap keps falling in there and there is still some seafood that I can't get rid of. God when will they ever close!?!?!

**discovery1** · 01-28-2006, 02:06

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

I still have two gaping holes from two weeks ago when I had this operation. Crap keps falling in there and there is still some seafood that I can't get rid of. God when will they ever close!?!?!

In the back on the bottom? I had mine pulled over summer. The holes are stilll there.

Guess I should talk about it....

Not nearly as bad as the above stories. Had all 4 out at the same time. My dad pailed at that. The operation was done very early in the morning, so the wait to eat bit wasn't a problem. Last thing I remeber was askign what the red fluid was that they were injecting into me(well, I knew what it would do). Woke up at home.... Pain kept me up for a while. Twice even took the painkillers.

**Byzantine Prince** · 01-28-2006, 02:40

Originally Posted by discovery1

In the back on the bottom? I had mine pulled over summer. The holes are stilll there.

The holes are still there!?!? Jesus man!

Is there any way to close the damn things once and for all, I somehow doubt they are going to close by themselves, and I quite honestly cannot eat confortably with them. Maybe the doc can re-stitch them or something.

**discovery1** · 01-28-2006, 04:36

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

The holes are still there!?!? Jesus man!

Is there any way to close the damn things once and for all, I somehow doubt they are going to close by themselves, and I quite honestly cannot eat confortably with them. Maybe the doc can re-stitch them or something.

You get used to it, and after a while food just goesn't get stuck in them anymore. Maybe b/c they are alot smoother than they were months ago.

Did your surgon give you a turky baster type thing? Useful for getting food out. And rinse with salt water.

**BDC** · 01-28-2006, 16:23

Mine are giving me tooth ache.

After reading these stories though, they are staying firmly in my jaw...

**Ironside** · 01-29-2006, 10:35

Originally Posted by BDC

Mine are giving me tooth ache.

After reading these stories though, they are staying firmly in my jaw...

Big pain for a day or small pain for a lifetime?

For me it was to avoid holes in the teeth and the other was going to puch toward my other teeth (already started but not enough for me to feel it yet), causing severe pain anyway.
Trust me, even I could see that from the x-ray.

**AntiochusIII** · 01-29-2006, 11:13

What are the wisdom teeth?

Are they those 4 extra teeth that don't really have places in your mouth after the rest 28 filled out?

If yes, I took them all out two years ago, when I was fourteen. It was rather easy, or may be I forgot all the pain. Nobody bled me half-dead, though. I guess that "Asians are gentle/whatever" stereotypes sometimes are real, even among dentists.

The operation was scary, and they injected the painkiller on my gum, all that pressure and hollowness though not real pain. The real pain came during the needle injection. My teeth were complicated and it took them quite an operation.

The holes were troublesome, yes. But I had an easy time since I loved those boiled rice and something made from pork which I don't know an English name for (if there is one) that I ate during the recovery period and were semi-traditionally considered "lite" food for the sick and the weakened (in Thailand).

BDC, if these are the teeth we're talking about, I suggest strongly that you take them out. If they try to push up in your gum against other teeth and get complicated your mouth will be your living hell, and the operation will have to be done anyway, with extra pain.

**ajaxfetish** · 01-28-2006, 23:15

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

The holes are still there!?!? Jesus man!

Is there any way to close the damn things once and for all, I somehow doubt they are going to close by themselves, and I quite honestly cannot eat confortably with them. Maybe the doc can re-stitch them or something.

Mine filled in after a couple weeks or so. Having them last for months seems pretty extreme. I hope discovery1 is allright! The thing I found that helped was called a waterpik. Not sure if they still make them. It squirted a small jet of water to clean your teeth in place of a toothpick. My dad had one he'd got as a gift sometime before and I felt safer with that than anything else I could stick back in there. Man it feels good to get rotting meat unstuck from the back of your mouth. Uggh. Definitely a relief when they went away.

Ajax