Tomorrow, I'm going under the knife to have my wisdom teeth taken out. I have a few questions:

1. How bad is it during recovery? In other words, how long will my life be a living hell before i get back to normal?

2. How high will I be with all the painkillers that they give to me? Some people here have wound up pretty stoned according to what they posted when they had their teeth removed. My friend was given morphine, which is basically not that different than heroin.

3. Why do we have these stupid useless wisdom teeth, anyway?


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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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4. why are they called wisdom teeth?

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let me guess-- they make you wise by introducing you to wonderful, previously untouched worlds of pain, right?



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

They're called "wisdom teeth" (third molars) because they usually erupt in your late teens or early twenties, after you've become an adult..

As for pain and such, it depends on what they give you. You might experience bleeding for a few hours, and possible swelling of your jaw/cheeks for two or three days with mild discoloration/bruising.

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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Here's my stats:

1. only one wisdom tooth is bone impacted, the rest are more or less straight at this point.

2. They're giving me stitches, so I probably won't have to worry about keeping the holes clean since they'll be sewn up, right? The stitches are the new kind that dissolve after a certain ammount of time.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

They'll probably still give you a plastic syringe to help flush it out, the stitches shouldn't close the hole totally. It's nothing major, you'll just have to flush the socket(s) after you eat. If not, you'll have to flush them with either a recommended mouthwash, or a salt-water solution (probably 1/4 teaspoon to 8 oz of water...basically a home-made saline solution).

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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You'll be in a some pain for a few days, then you'll feel ok, but it'll hurt when you bite down on the still healing area of the gums. I'd say a week or so and everything should be alright

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Pain.

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I had all four wisdom teeth removed last year. I was never in any real pain but my jaw was numb for hours and I kept drooling on my keyboard. Damn inconvenience it was too.

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Even though they're going to give you stitches, they may give you a mouthwash to prevent dry socket, like others have said. Except my wasn't a saline solution, it had a fancy organic molecule in it and it wasn't safe to swallow. Use the mouthwash for awhile after the recommended time, you don't want dry socket, trust me. I went a week beyond the recommended time and I still got it.

But otherwise its not bad, all I remember was hearing a drilling noise and thinking that I should be in pain.

One thing it depends on is the guy doing it too. The specialist I was sent to wasn't exactly the greatest fellow for the job.. but he tried do it fast so I wouldn't be in too much pain for long.. but that was all four at once, and because I had to drive myself home I couldn't go under or anything when he did the work on me, just freezing that wasn't quite enough for me.

If you have just one taken out this time around, it shouldn't be too bad, some pain but not too much, just follow the doctor's directions and you should be fine.

dry socket? WTF is that?

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I am so glad my wisdom teeth fit in my mouth.

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my appt. is for 2:30 today, so wish me luck if you want to.

The worst thing right now is I'm dying of thirst and I can't drink any water until after the surgery. Strange, b/c most people would be able to take a drink now and then piss it out long before then so they wouldn't have to worry about puking it up when they give you medication. strange world we live in...



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It's caused by either a blood clot in the socket that has been dislodged, or the failure to form a blood clot at all. It slows down the healing process and produces a dull pain usually noticed a few days after surgery.

I forgot to warn you that they'll probably remove a bit of tissue, including bone for your bone impacted tooth. But I'm sure you'll be discovering that on your own shortly...

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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I am a product of evoltion. The root structure for my wisdom teeth never existed. As such, I never got the teeth.

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I still don't buy the argument that all wisdom teeth should be removed. I asked my dentist(er, surgeon? whatever they're called) when I was in high school why they had to remove mine. He said they are an abnormality, as if I had some teeth growing out of my knee. I called him on that and told him that if that were the case, everyone in society wouldn't be getting them, and that everyone in 3rd world countries would have jaw pain their entire life.

He was speechless.

I had it done anyway because if I didn't have it done by him, I would have been forced to when I joined the AF.

I would suggest: Get completely knocked out, don't get the local junk because it's too disgusting.

I upchucked some fluid and chunks on my way home from the place, but after that I had no pain and no dry sockets. I never even took any of the pain killers.

'Course, I have a high tolerance for pain. Last time I was at the dentist, they had to inject me 6 times with the numbing junk before it worked.

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s***....

Are the teeth removed intact or in chunks?

So, i should also bring a bucket to puke in if need be, eh? I don't want to clean my parent's upholsetery.

fortunately, most people in my family have uber-genetics (sort of) and we heal very quickly.


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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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It really depends on your mouth. Sometimes they can slit your gums open and just pull the teeth out whole, other times they have to break it up and remove the pieces...

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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Just don't be a dumbass like me and think you can do it without the novacane. We didn't have much money at the time, so it saved us a bit for me to have it done with no pain killers. That was a ****ing huge mistake. Drugs are good mmkay.

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I've heard that if they mess with a certain nerve enough, it can cause permanent numbness. With that said, is it really worth the risk?



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

1. Recovery isn't that bad. Just hang around the house and be lazy for about a week... so, for you, I don't know. That may be detrimental... but for me, that wasn't really any different than what I normally do.

2. They'll probably give you codine. I'm surprised your friend had morphine, they usually try to save that kindof as a last resort. I can't remember what I had, but at first they gave me codine and it apprently doesn't settle well with my stomach, so I spent about the first day throwing it all up. That's when I started taking something else which I don't remember the name of. And about the stitches, I had the same kind (the ones that disolve and fall out), and so at first they didn't tell me about cleaning them, but after the stitches came out I had to clean the holes... so yes, you probably will have to worry about that. It's not bad though, you just get a little syringe and squirt water in there.

3. To make life miserable.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

If I have it done today, do you think I could be semi-normal again by Monday?(enough to walk around, focus, sit in class, and eat something decent?) I have to go back to uni and I can't take off another week this close to finals to recover. (I've been off on spring break all this week)

If not, then I'd better move my appointment to early summer so I have time to recover. hopefully, i still have time.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited April 16, 2004).]

It depends on you. I went to school the next day. You could be just fine after the drugs wear off tonight, or you might be miserable for a week.

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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With what other people posted, the odds are around 50% of a slow recovery and 50% of a fast recovery.

50% is a hell of a gamble.




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

It just depends on how you feel. There's no "gamble" to it. If Monday comes around and you feel you're capable, then go for it.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

No, he's right, it is a gamble. He might very well feel like **** on monday.

[Edit - Though, I doubt that you should be in enough pain to keep you from taking exams...but I don't know, my experience was fairly pain-free.]

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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1. You will be scarred for the rest of your life and you will never get over the horror of having your teeth removed

2. PCP + LSD + Ecstasy = how high you'll be

3. Because we're all bad people


...what?

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