Teeth of Wisdom
My wisdom teeth have been giving me a gentle soreness every so often for the past few months. Well this week one of them decided to wage all out oral war on me. I woke up with a pain in my jaw, and couldn't tell if it was just my jaw locking or if I bit myself or what, but it hurt, and I went back to bed. Since then I've been in an annoying amount of pain from this god damn wisdom tooth trying to take over my mouth. I've been popping ibuprofen like it's candy and washing the back of my jaw with liquid anesthetic.
I know I have dental and yeah yeah yeah I should go get them looked at and potentially pulled. But here's the thing... I literally can not remember the last time I was to the dentist. My parents didn't have family dental, and I'm almost positive the last time I got my teeth checked I got a shiny plastic gold ring. I don't think I want to go to the dentist. I think I want to pretend nothing is wrong and just suffer in terrible, terrible pain. Then maky boring blog posts about how my teeth keep randomly getting totally sore and bore all of you.
It doesn't seem to be pushing anything over, but I do have a bit of a sore in my mouth next to it. And there's a flap of gum tissue kinda hanging there now over my tooth. It's kinda icky. I just don't want any repeats of that weird episode of Rocko's Modern life.... y'know.... the one where Filbert dresses up as the Toothfairy.
I know I have dental and yeah yeah yeah I should go get them looked at and potentially pulled. But here's the thing... I literally can not remember the last time I was to the dentist. My parents didn't have family dental, and I'm almost positive the last time I got my teeth checked I got a shiny plastic gold ring. I don't think I want to go to the dentist. I think I want to pretend nothing is wrong and just suffer in terrible, terrible pain. Then maky boring blog posts about how my teeth keep randomly getting totally sore and bore all of you.
It doesn't seem to be pushing anything over, but I do have a bit of a sore in my mouth next to it. And there's a flap of gum tissue kinda hanging there now over my tooth. It's kinda icky. I just don't want any repeats of that weird episode of Rocko's Modern life.... y'know.... the one where Filbert dresses up as the Toothfairy.
The same exact thing happened to me. A lttle soreness and boom. Holy hell it hurt. I had been to the dentist a whole two times in my life before that and I'm 28.... Depending on your dentist they'll do one side at a time (which I recommend...at least you can eat on the other side)or they do all four....in your first visit they will probably check out your teeth and you will feel guilty because well you have been to the dentist in well like...ever...they'll give you an antibiotic because it hurts because it's getting infected...and then a week or so later you go and get them out...I was really lucky because they came out super easy and all I had to take was a few aleve but they do give you tylonol 3 just in case....just go....do it and get it over with...believe me...I put it off too...after a whole week of unbearable pain, it's just not worth it. And hey...in the end I ended up with no cavities...you sould have seen the look on my face when he told me that...I just didn't believe it.
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You should get them out, even if the dentist gives you shit, it isn't worth the pain. My sister had the same thing happen, she waited to get her's out and they started to give her massive pain. But her's were nasty impacted and they had to cut to the bone, not pleasant, but she hardly had any pain after a couple of days and was fine. Just one word of warning, DON'T DRINK through a STRAW! My dad and my sister's friend both did that when they had them pulled, which results in the worst pain ever, a dry socket... be warned! *twitches* My teeth came out easy and I got mine out under local anthesetic, I was in and out of the surgery in under 10 minutes. (minus the time for the shots to numb my face). Most people just take an IV and go under and say it's easy. But you should definetely go in, even if the dentist brow beats you, it's not worth the time you are suffering at the moment to not get them taken care of. *hides her own bad tooth she needs to go get fixed*
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I got mine out before they started hurting. I'm one of those people that does goes to the dentist every six months so it's no big deal. But I don't floss. Did the IV thing, fell asleep, and was out in less than 90 minutes. Took the painkillers when needed (it is still surgery after all).
But recovery was a pain in the butt. Since food get getting caught in the holes left until they heal I had to pick them out with this little brush they gave me. It's hard eating with just your front teeth.
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.... IV.... ;.;
Seriously, I'd rather just go through the pain than get an IV. I'm so squimish, I'd probably puke the second they even mention it.
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hey. i just got my wisdom teeth out last week. it wasnt terrible at all...i got all four out...and it didnt even really hurt that much when the drugs wore off. Anyway...im not really the type of person who posts comments on things....but i thought id just tell you, that when i was in high school a girl in my grade actually died because her wisdom teeth got impacted and infected...and since she never did anything about it, the infection speard into the rest of her body, and killed her.Extreme cicumstance i know but yeah. consider going the dentist...it would probally be worth it in the long run
Cheers
Coey (nova scotia, canada)
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I got mine yanked last month after a semester full of pain (due to the upper teeth attempting to cut in--had to go to an oral surgeon for those o.O). The IV is definitely a better option than localized numbing. You won't be able to see the IV site when they set it up, if the nurses put you on oxygen beforehand. I sincerely hope that you don't wake up mid-procedure, like I did. Eek! [No, my doctor wasn't an incompetent nut, the surgery took twice as long as it should have due to some rather stubborn roots, thus the good stuff wore off.] The IV sedation isn't as strong as what you'd get for, say, an appendecitis, so it doesn't put you far enough under to forget something like that.
The pain associated with recovery was nothing compared to the pain of the teeth attempting to cut; Vicodin helps, of course. My face bruised on one side and the other was rather swollen. However, a few days of R+R cleared it up.
Heh, hope it all clears up.
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