General Chat / Wisdom teeth

I hope I never have to have mine removed. I have a fear of the orthodontic surgeon, caused by my orthodontist (two different doctors in my town). When I first got my braces put on, they were messin' around and one of the tools lost grip of the bracket and stabbed my gum. I was bleeding a decent amount of blood (two gauze pads worth), and could tell it wasn't "just a little poke" like they said it was. That son of a bitch hurt!

Then when I had to get surgeory to fix a molar coming in sideways, they gave me that goopy stuff that numbs your gums so that the Novacain needle won't hurt so bad. Then the surgeon runs off to ask his nurse a question. 10 minutes later he comes back and stabs me after the stuff wore off. That hurt really bad too.

In short, idiot dentists, orthodontists, and surgeons have given me a perpetual fear of dentistry.

Then ask ca!ch!

the needles don't hurt anyway, you pansy.

Wow. I remember getting mine out. I was 14 years old and my WT were growing in on a slant. So they need to get them out asap so they won't crowd my other teeth. So I got put to sleep and they went to work. They need to chisel off some of my jaw bone to take out the bottoms. One wrong move and my jaw could have been broken. But yeah, they then cut out the bottoms and then they went to the top. They figured while they are in there, they will get all four out. They said I was fairly young to get them out though. But they gone and thats what matters.
-JDP

Guess I'm a bit unlucky afterall. My jaw still hurt quite a lot atm. The problem is really the lower one as I have not a single problem with the upper tooth. Also it seems he battered a lot more than just my wisdom teeth... Ah well I'll survive, just have to calculate enough time for the second round I guess.

I find it a bit weird that some of you get put under completely for an operation of about 20 minutes. The want to keep you awake for as many different operations, basicly because a narcose has it's own drawbacks, so they avoid it if they don't have to.
btw Emergo, I seriously wouldn't last very long without an anaesthetic. The operation lasts way too long for that in my case.

As far as the rest goes, I have a had a good share of dental problems. One of them were my braces. It's not a big disaster to have them, but I seriously am mad at my orthodontist. As I said before my diabetes was discovered because of three loose teeth. The problem was that my toothflesh around those teeth dropped unnaturally quickly. He should have been the first to notice. At the time it was told me that I didn't brushed my teeth good enough in a somewhat forceful way, well hello, it doesn't dissappear that fast. My earliest new appointed was with my regular dentist a some time later. At that point she rang the alarm bells and I had to go see a specialist fairly quickly. Not much later the actual problem was discovered. I had huge amount of pretty standard bacteria that caused the problem, which could grow very fast because of the alarming high sugar levels in my blood. A while later (my braces were already removed btw) I had a check-up at my orthodontist. When my mother started about the problem and asked why he didn't signal the problem, he said he was only responsible for setting the teeth in the right position and not the health of them. And that is calling itself a specialist. Never been there since. Because I still get treated for the loose teeth (mostly checking and cleaning though) I really don't need to go there anyway as they signal problems way earlier (get checked evry 3 months). I don't go to a regular dentist anymore either. They replaced the whole staff there after problems there and the new ones are pretty shit. Guess they work cheaper. I personally prefer quality and my old dentist had that and my whole family went there for 16 years or so.

Wow, Ty, this seems a lot of bad experiences as well as complications.....

Hope you´ll have found/will find the right one to cope with what you need in a good way. Really important that is... so many that call themselves, or are called `a specialist` while in fact they don´t have to offer anything at all....just go on and find the one that you have thrust in, like your family did/has.

I´ll just quote this one:

btw Emergo, I seriously wouldn't last very long without an anaesthetic. The operation lasts way too long for that in my case.

LoL!! That would go for most people I think, by what I know from it...if you need an operation for it, you for sure could not do without an anaesthetic!
Mind you, my wisdom-teeth never gave any problems before, and long time ago my dentist already said `if they don´t seem to give any problems, I am not in favour of extracting them just out of prevetion.........`
So, as in my case they did not give any problems at all, they stayed, and I did not need any operations on it.
Untill one got loose, very loose!, by itself.
Then it was just a matter of pulling that one out - like in the old days they attached a string to it and to the doorknob on the other side - and out it was, with only an extremely sharp but short-lasting pain.......I was lucky on that one.....

I am wishing you all great luck etc. with this kind of things.
I do now that often those wisdom-teeth can cause problems, like pushing away other teeth to grow in a regular fashion, etc. and then of course it is a good thing that they are taken out.
On the other hand.....I sometimes doubt how far our `prevention` nowadays goes as long as no problem is really actual...... I do know that my father never ever had extracted any of his wisdom-teeth, and that he never ever had any problems from that either.....but yes, he had a small irregularity in his teeth on the left side, which to me just was very charming and personal (maybe caused by a pushing wishdom-teeth?'), but I do get so bored with all those perfectly right dentist-modified teeth, like everyone is fotoshopped instead of being a living person....

Just me...I know...

Emergo

I'm hoping like hell mine never actually come in. As long as they stay where they are, I'll be fine. If they move, I'm screwed.

But yeah... nasty stuff. Makes you wonder when we'll evolve to not have them anymore, as they're mostly useless.

I just had my wisdom teeth taken out and I'll describe it as well as I can.

First I was taken into a room and went onto the the typical dentist chair. Then they put one of those pulse checkers on one of the fingers on my right hand. Right after my blood pressure was taken and soon I had a laughing gas mask on which made me feel just a little tired as it went on with an awful rubber smell. Soon enough later as I was feeling more tired the anasthetic was administered into the vein of my right arm with a sharp poke and with the laughing gas disrupting my common sense, with an I.V. next to me it felt like I'd be put into a coma. Soon the chair was lowered and I was in full on nightmare mode compared to the weird dreams I'd had just a few minutes earlier. All of a sudden I began having horrible nightmares and could have sworn the people operating on me were saying negative things. All sorts of paranoias about my life in this delirious state became associated with this pain. In order to compensate for the still noticable pain of feeling my wisdom teeth pulled out I moved my arms and legs in several quick jolts as a sort of stimuli to the pain I wasn't able to overcome. Soon, but not soon enough, the surgery was over. I waited in a chair for several minutes after commenting about how the experience was a total nightmare so delirious I needed help to walk straight. Even after I got home atleast 15 miles away, I still felt delirious in the same manner in which it felt like everything else around me was normal and it was me that was out of balance.

^ Man you sure that was laughing gas they were giving you?

^It was both laughing gas and a stronger sedative of some sort that was pricked into a vein on my right arm with a small needle.

+ lsd.