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Posted by Shane Hoffmann (Member # 1620) on 08-12-2004, 08:10 PM:
 
...and it really sucks.

It hurts to eat anything, even ice cream. I can't drive and I can't work today or tomorrow. I can't spit. I can't brush my teeth. I can't swish water around in my mouth to rinse out the blood. I hope I don't look like a chipmunk when I go back to work on Saturday night.

Any suggestions for food that doesn't hurt? I found out that anything warm makes my gums hurt.

I suppose I should look at the bright side. I can lay on the couch and watch all the movies I want, and it's only a half hour til my next dose of vicatin
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-12-2004, 08:12 PM:
 
Watch out for "dry sockets" -- get on antibiotics at the first sign of any general infection (a fever), which can happen quickly.
 

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Posted by James B. Openshaw (Member # 1310) on 08-12-2004, 08:17 PM:
 
I had an infection when my wisdom teeth were pulled. The surgeon had to shove gauze treated with some kind of dressing into the socket, not a pleasant experience.

They put me on Percoset and let's just say, its effects made me feel like no surgery had taken place.

Edit: Drinking a milk shake can be a good idea, but you might want to wait a while for it to thin up because it'll hurt like hell to drink a thick milkshake through a straw. Any kind of soup with few to no solid bits in it is good also.

[ 08-12-2004, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: James B. Openshaw ]
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 08-12-2004, 08:35 PM:
 
Ouch.. that was not a fun thing to have done. I ended up being allergic to the anasthetic; threw up every hour for 12 hours after surgery! Not fun to throw up when you just had mouth surgery.

So... see how much better off you are than some people?

Danny
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-12-2004, 08:58 PM:
 
Indeed, mine were coming in sideways and underneath into my other teeth and were starting to screw up my orthodontics. The doc had to go in and literally cut away and pull back my gums, then dig to pull the widsom teeth out by the side. The doc and his assistant ended up getting pretty well covered with blood, as was I. I think I got 5 shots to deaden the area, but it didn't work. Not fun. You got it easy.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-12-2004, 09:30 PM:
 
Dry socket is no picnic. I had it on both the left and right on my lower jaw. No problems on the upper ones.

One of my bouts with dry socket ended abruptly while I was watching a 70mm print of "Black Rain" at Loews 34th Street East theater in Manhattan. My right lower jaw was aching like crazy and the stitches were irritating the hell out of my gums. I tensed my jaw up and popped one of the stitches loose. That caused just enough bleeding to cover up the exposed bone in the empty wisdom tooth socket. That equaled instant relief. I literally let out an "aaahhh" and smiled.

Some people get their wisdom teeth extracted under general anasthesia. I just had the local injections and it took a lot of them. Thankfully, I didn't get all four taken out at once. Did the left side in one appointment and the right side on the other. My wisdom teeth weren't giving me any problems, but they were on their side pointing forward at the other teeth. I figured while I still had military dependent benefits I might as well get it done rather than have it cost me a fortune later on in life.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-12-2004, 09:37 PM:
 
Ok Shane, since all the other posters want to avoid your question and solicit sympathy for themselves, I just to let you know that when I had all my 4-wisdom teeth removed, the only thing could eat for a week was chocolate malts and chicken soup.

>>> Phil
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 08-12-2004, 09:37 PM:
 
OK Shane, since all the other posters want to avoid your question and solicit sympathy for themselves, I just to let you know that when I had all my 4-wisdom teeth removed, the only thing could eat for a week was chocolate malts and chicken soup.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-12-2004, 09:40 PM:
 
JFC!

I don't believe Manny went and stole my post!

>>> Phil
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 08-12-2004, 09:41 PM:
 
JFC!

I don't believe Phil went and stole my post!
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-12-2004, 09:55 PM:
 
Haha, mine didn't need to be pulled!!! I did have another tooth pulled though for other reasons, it sucks. I lived off cooled down soup for a couple days, try some broth or tomato soup, something without chunks.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-12-2004, 10:30 PM:
 
I decided that it would be in my best interest to just not grow any wisdom teeth in the first place. I am the next step in human evolution! That would also explain the extra 2 nipples, perhaps. [av=a]

(Now waiting for a post from Phil... or anybody for that matter... about how lack of growing wisdom teeth obviously means lack of wisdom)
 

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Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 08-12-2004, 10:31 PM:
 
Had mine pulled in 1976. Lived on lukewarm chicken noodle soup for about 3 days.

Funny thing happened. While being driven home after the surgery by my mother, we stopped to fill a prescription. I stayed in the car with the air conditioner going. For some unexplained reason, I locked the doors and went to sleep. It took my mom and several guys from the pharmacy about 15 minutes to get me to wake up and unlock the door.

You will probably look like a chipmunk when you go to work. Sorry.
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 08-12-2004, 10:50 PM:
 
I'm with Joe. I just don't have any to begin with.

The dentist went poking around for a while and kept going "Huh. Odd."
Then he removed his fingers and said "Kid, you don't have any wisdom teeth!"
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 08-12-2004, 10:55 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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(Now waiting for a post from Phil... or anybody for that matter... about how lack of growing wisdom teeth obviously means lack of wisdom)

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Phil hates it when someone knows what he's going to say before he says it!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-12-2004, 10:55 PM:
 
I hate it when someone knows what I'm going to say before I say it!

>>>Phil
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 08-12-2004, 11:18 PM:
 
Too bad they don't prescribe hydrocodine anymore (or it seems they don't, no one I talk to who has had their wisdeom teeth pulled recently got it as a pain killer). When I had mine pulled it hurt until I popped one of those babies, then I was FLYING

Well, more like snoozing (couldn't stay awake for anything) but hey, same difference I guess.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-13-2004, 12:10 AM:
 
I just had my last 3 wisdom teeth surgically removed last week. 42 years old, and not a filling in my head! Never had one. Dentist couldn't believe it, for as good a overall condition my teeth are in.

Anyway, I drive a commercial vehicle, so I can't have serious pain medication. The only things I've been on are Advils. I'm down to taking 2 or 3, about twice a day now. Was taking it four times a day. Still have lower jaw pain occasionally (can't tell if it's dry sockets or not... not sure how much pain is too much). I guess if I can live with it, it'll be okay.

Though I keep worrying that pieces of food I don't know about are getting sealed up inside there, as the sockets close.
 

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Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 08-13-2004, 12:11 AM:
 
Had all mine pulled about 5 years ago. I say pulled, I had to have two extracted, as they were impacted.

I had no real issues, save cussing out the pharmacy employee because they didn't accept my BCBS insurance card... My buddy had fun telling everyone about this over the next few days... and he stood back and luaghed while I did it.. bastage... I never went back in the place and it has since closed..

ANYWAY, back to the point, I ate much chicken noodle soup, jello, pudding and the next day I ate some sort of sandwich, soaked in, of course, chicken noodle soup. Drank plenty of OJ and had a few Percodan's and I was good to go. I had little to no pain after the 2nd day, so I slipped the scrip' back in the ol medicine cabinet for future use...

*note to Phil* if your drink tastes funny, and you feel a little tingly... you have been warned... LOLOL...

It's really funny how dif'rent folks react to this. I had two impacted teeth that were literally cut out and had little pain at all and NO swelling. Others I know blew up like a pufferfish.. and they claim it hurt like hell... I do have a pretty high tolerance to pain... but the drugs don't hurt anything either..
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-13-2004, 01:15 AM:
 
If you saved them, you could put them back! But nobody ever thinks ahead.

quote:

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42 years old, and not a filling in my head!

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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I just had the local injections and it took a lot of them.

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quote: Shane Hoffmann

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I suppose I should look at the bright side. I can lay on the couch and watch all the movies I want, and it's only a half hour til my next dose of vicatin

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Next time before you have surgery, move to LA. If you did that, you wouldn't have to be alone on the couch and you'd have someone to keep you doped up on pills.

btw, i never took anything stronger than OTC tylenol when mine were taken out.

danny
 

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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 08-13-2004, 06:05 AM:
 
Hope everyoneone recovers from their wisdom teeth delimas!

I had mine removed decades ago when I was in Jr. High School. No complications/pain. Everything was very smooth!

The orthodontist wanted to fit me with every teenagers dream...braces! My wisdom teeth were growing forward and pushing my other teeth out of alignment.

Well, my parents...especially my Dad wanted to postpone braces to see if my teeth straightened out on their own after the pressure from the wisdom teeth was removed. Sure enough they did, and all was well.
 

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Posted by Shane Hoffmann (Member # 1620) on 08-13-2004, 08:01 AM:
 
Man, that vicatin really put me out. I fell asleep on the couch and just woke up now.

Anyway, I guess I didn't have it to bad when they actually extracted them. They put me under and gave me shots. I don't think I was ever actually asleep, I just had no clue what was going on. It seemed like only a few minutes later that the dentist's (or oral surgeon, whatever) assistant came in and told me I was done. She kept telling me to keep my eyes open, but I fell asleep like three times in a minute.

So I guess it didn't suck until the shots wore off. But then I could definitely feel it. Everything's feeling fine now, but that usually changes when I try to eat something. My mouth tastes like crap and I must have terrible breath, but I'm not allowed to brush until this afternoon.

I think I'll go try the chicken soup idea. For some reason that hadn't crossed my mind.
 

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Posted by Michael Cunningham (Member # 210) on 08-13-2004, 10:19 AM:
 
One thing I remember being told about preventing "dry socket" is to not eat anything that requires suction. In other words, no milkshakes, drinks through straws, suckers, popcicles, etc. Also no smoking for the first day (if that's an issue for you).

- Mike
 

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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-13-2004, 01:05 PM:
 
I had my wisdom teeth removed two at a time on two different visits two or three weeks apart at a dentist's office in spring 1985. The first time, there was only slight swelling and I was able to eat three hours later. The second time, it was slightly worse, but wasn't too bad. I'm glad I didn't have mine done in a hospital all at one time, since the way it was done, I didn't have to be knocked out.
 

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Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 08-13-2004, 09:26 PM:
 
I had mine pulled roughly 9 months ago or so, maybe closer to a year. I had all 4 done at the same time. I was sedated so I felt no pain during the procedure. Recovery didn't take too long, but was sore for quite a while. Fortunatly I didn't have any dry socket, I was dreading that.

However one problem that I had was that one of the lower tooth's roots were entwinted with the blood vessel and nerve that runs from there that the dentist had a very difficult time extracting the tooth. To this day part of my chin is still numb from nerve damage.
 

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Posted by Shane Hoffmann (Member # 1620) on 08-13-2004, 10:16 PM:
 
As far as I can tell, I can still feel my whole face, so I think I'm clear of the nerve damage, although they did warn me about it before going in.

My cheeks are swollen now, so I guess I won't be avoiding that one. Oh well, I'll get over it. I went most of today without any drugs, but then I got pretty sore and caved in. I'm feelin' great right now.
 

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 08-14-2004, 12:15 AM:
 
I had 2 yanked out by an Army dentist in the bush in Vietnam and the other 2 yanked out by an "oral surgeon" 4 years later. The Army doc did a hell of a lot better job though neither was especially painful after the second day.
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 08-14-2004, 12:25 AM:
 
I had all four removed a few years ago. Can't remember much about it except going in and barely remember coming out. I had an IV so I was in la la land. They had to remove some of the jaw bone on both sides because the teeth had grown into the bone. Didn't eat anything but pudding for three days. Didn't really want anything else but by the fourth day I was like where is the food.
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 08-14-2004, 08:48 AM:
 
Mine were pulled by an ace Oral Surgeon. All four in one sitting (knocked out). I was eating pizza that evening and stopped using pain killers (Tylenol 3) by bed time.

Steve
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-14-2004, 02:08 PM:
 
I've always had trouble with my teeth, they're very brittle, and bits keep breaking off them. My first teeth were the same.

I always hated going to the dentist, the injections were the worst thing, after having had a few I always insisted on having any fillings done without one.

When I was 20, 27 years ago, I had to have an extraction done; I'd had one done before, but for some reason, there was something more major about this one, and they said I had to take somebody with me. At that time my mother was still alive, so she came with me. They explained that I was going to have to have an anaesthetic, and I might be a bit drowsey afterwards, so she would make sure I was ok on the way home.

The gave me an injection in the arm to put me out, rather than just a local in the gum, like they normally did. When I came round I felt terrible, they said that they'd given me gas to keep me under. Most people came back out into the waiting room just a few minutes after coming round, and were able to walk out of the building after half an hour or so. It was nearly an hour before I could even get out of the chair. I then spent several more hours in the waiting room, until the surgery closed, and they told us to leave. I still wasn't able to walk properly, so I had to sit on a seat outside. It was late that evening when I finally got home, the extraction had been done in the morning, and I really thought I was going to die. I'd collapsed several times on the way home, had been bring up blood, was unable to speak for several days, had terrible headaches, saw bright lights in front of my eyes.

I still don't anow if they did something wrong, or I just reacted very badly to whatever it was they gave me, but I swore that I would never again go near a dentist agan; and I never have done. I've pulled a couple of teeth myself, and many others have just broken up, and come out in pieces over the years. I don't have much left now, apart from a few at the front.

I actually had a relative who was a dentist, I only met him a couple of times, he died when I was very young, but he was a really frightening character. He had been an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, not that unusual in itself, many people here, including the future King of England, were at least sympathetic towards them in the early days, but he remained so until the day he died. He sincerely belived that they never did anything wrong, it was all lies put out by the nasty Communists, that Hitler was a really nice bloke, and that Britain should have joined with him to fight the Russians.

With those two experiences, is it any wonder that I don't like dentists?
 

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