you anti-dentite

I am not an anti-dentite. You're just not a comedian though... You're not even Jewish. You're a dentist... Skeevy at that.

One of the four was impacted even and they had to crack it then take out the pieces but I felt nothing. the worst part about this was the food that kept getting trapped in the empty spaces for the first week. Luckily my dentist gave me this weird curved beak syringe that I could use to flush the back part of my mouth with. Curved beak syringe. ASK FOR IT BY NAME.

I've still got my wisdom teeth. And my two extra "wisdom" testicles.

Just don't eat popcorn before those pits fill in, and then in an attempt to clean them out jam that bugger in the pits...I DID do that.

Undescended?

And, aren't unextracted internalized testes liable to get the cancer? Do you fear the cancer?

I'm 31 and still have mine. My current dentist has not said anything about them since the first time I saw him back in 2001. He merely recognized that I have them. So until he says they need to come out, those mofos are stayin' in.

What I don't look forward to is whenever I have to get my first root canal. Crowns, fillings...I can handle those. Root canals just sound bloody awful, albeit more so for those who come in to the dentist already in pain.

Yep. Had them out last year. I hate to say but getting mine out was some of the worst pain I've ever had. I was laid out from Friday to Sunday. I went to work on Monday and was spitting blood all morning and I said fuck it and went home.

One word: PERCOCET

The only thing that got me through it.


I don't want to freak you out because I'm on the far end of the spectrum. My ex-girlfriend had hers out and all she felt was minor discomfort and was back at work the next day. Then again another woman here at work told me before I had it done that getting hers out was comparable to child birth.

Best thing I can tell you: Get the gas, have someone to take care of you that first day and stay doped up as long as possible. Oh, and don't smoke. Dry sockets will apparently make you want to off yourself.

Wisdom teeth are the best proof against Intelligent Design.

How about nipples on men?

I waited till I was like 24. Three out of four came in completely normally (but painfully---I literally drank the pain off with Jim Beam) while I was in college but that nasty little fourth one......

I'd suggest doing it on a Friday morning so you have at least the weekend to recover. I went with the local and the gas----fuck a bunch of that pain; slept all day Friday, mongered on Saturday, and then drank beer and made gumbo for the Super Bowl on Sunday. I think I quit smoking for a week. No problems. Back to work on Monday.

Yeah, get the Percs or whatever you can for the pain.

I think I had 2 wisdom teeth taken out about 10 years ago or so. It wasn't too bad. They injected me with a shit-ton of novacaine and the only thing that really bothered me was the cracking.

I had to have a lower molar pulled out last year and I think it was the worst pain I've ever experienced, besides kidney stones.

My dad had his till he died, my older sister has hers, I'm keeping 'em. They just want the two grand. Dental surgery is unmitigated hell.

I might do it for a sufficient quantity of demerol, though. Come 1/1/06 I'll have dental insurance for the first time in years.

Just hope you don't get a dry socket. I did and it intensified the pain by epic proportions. Although it did result in the prescribing of more drugs....

I WAS BORN WITHOUT WISDOM TEEETH. IT IS A RECESSIVE TRAIT AS MY GRANDFATEHR DOES NOT HAVE THEM EITHER/ NOR DID HE EVER. AND HE IS OLD.

Wait, did you go to a dentist or protologist? how impacted were your wisdom teeth? and last butt not least ...is it possible to remove them from that side?

cough please!

I'll be the first to say I don't trust dentists--the lot of 'em are more likely to "find" things to fix than auto mechanics. I never had problems with my choppers until the dentist started screwing with 'em.

That said, even I have to admit, after seeing the x-rays on the wizzies, that they had to come out. They were growing sideways into the teeth in front of them, threatening to throw my whole jaw out of shape. Quite a bloody mess indeed.

I had my first two root canals within the past few months, and it was utterly painless.

Honestly, I dread the semi-annual cleaning more than cavities, root canals, caps, etc.--there's no novocaine, they go at you with that metal pick for hours and they floss you bloody. I prefer the drill.

Oh, and I'm another one of those genetic mutants who never got wisdom teeth. Lucky me.

Not really "major" surgery, but it does suck balls. Some people have no trouble at all, while some people get dry sockets and there is no pain like pain centrally located in your empty, raw, bloody and sometimes pusy holes were teeth used to be. I never had dry sockets and I had all four of mine extracted just like you will. I was however in tremendous pain, and I'm allergic to codeine, so the pain killers I was prescribed weren't up to par. Everyone from family to friends can attest that the week I was laid out on the couch w/ ice packs on my jaws was the height of "asseholery" of my then 18 years on earth.
I definitely had some serious pusage in the sockets. I could press on my gum and old food and pus would squirt out. It was pretty gross and tasted kind of salty. On the upside, I lost about 20 lbs. in 3 weeks because I couldn't eat solid food. I have the stretch marks left as proof!

Good luck!

i had it done on monday and it's been something less than an enjoyable week.

the left side of my face ballooned like... a balloon, in addition to feeling less than stellar. i was basically bedridden for two and a half days, notwithstanding a narcotic medication related episode one night in which my body essentially told me not to take any more by demonstrating about as many flu-like symptoms as i would prefer to have without actually hurling. yesterday was the first day i felt well enough to move around more than just getting up to go to the bathroom and today the pain and swelling is mostly gone. now it's just a matter of when i can open my mouth completely again, and when these damn holes in my mouth heal themselves. today i was told i have an afore mentioned "dry socket" because one of the blood clots decided to skip town and all i'm left with now is an empty hole of nothing, which is prime ground for all kinds of crap to get into. so that needs some extra care. delicious.

all in all, things are looking up, no matter how shitty i make them out to be. the second night, i was so delirious when trying to sleep that every time i would nod off i would have visions of the ramones performing, and each time they would be playing something different. it was like a private concert of insanity.

Makes me wish I could have mine out again. Stellar!

oh my gawd, my wisdom teeth experience was AWFUL. i had mine pulled about 2 1/2 years ago. i had all four pulled out at once because the bottom two were hurting, and the dentist said the top two grew in. i just wanted to be done with it all at once. i also had to wait awhile to get it done because i couldn't afford it, even though our dental insurance is pretty good. so that made matters worse and i could feel it growing in. yuck.

i asked to be taken under because i hate the dentist and the thought of seeing someone pulling my teeth just wasn't cool. my mouth was crazy bleeding for the rest of the day, and he prescribed percs for me... which didn't help with the pain at all so i requested vics.

THEN to make matters worse, i ended up getting dry socket on the bottom right side and holy fuck, it is the worst pain ever. so i had to go back to the dentist like 3-4 times after my teeth got pulled for periodic checkups because he did a shitty job and it didn't heal properly.

my advice, do what yail said, schedule for a friday morning or afternoon so you can recover. be careful eating, and don't drink anything through a straw. if you smoke, don't smoke- this was the hardest part for me since i do smoke but i was in so much pain i couldn't smoke.

also, get one of those syringe thingies so you can flush out the food so it doesn't get trapped in the empty holes.

good luck, wisdom teeth are a bitch. i'm glad it's one of things that just happen once and you're done with it.

*shuddering just thinking about it*

Two weeks after mine, and Im pretty much healed....although it still feels like i have food in my lower left area.....alth0ough nothing is there, its annoying.

Right on!