Wisdom Teeth

[Ironside]

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]

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.

[BDC]

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.

Well they seem to be coming in fine. I'm just suffering as my other teeth are moved around a bit and then forced back into place with my retainer.

The bottom two are coming in perfectly, top ones might be an issue, but dentist said it looked ok when I went. It's just like being a baby again. I need a teething toy.

[The_Doctor]

It's just like being a baby again. I need a teething toy.

I know what you mean.

My top left one is coming through and is starting to hurt.

[ajaxfetish]

Yep, that's what wisdom teeth are, Antiochus. I heard from the dentist who took mine out that more and more people are being born with some or all of their wisdom teeth missing already (a glimpse of evolution in action) and for some people they don't need to be removed, but if they're shifting your others around I don't think that applies to you, BDC. Suck it up, man!

Ajax