I was on the dentist chair for ten minutes. Numb sauce, little yank, repeat don't spit 20 times, and I was out the door.
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Wisdom Tooth
- Thread starter Joe Gress
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I was on the dentist chair for ten minutes. Numb sauce, little yank, repeat don't spit 20 times, and I was out the door.
Yup. I'm very lucky to say the least. Both my parents and my older brother had three.
Got your 'rents and older bro beat:
All 4, at one time. Awake and aware the entire time.
Yeah, it sucked. Haven't been back to the tooth-man since. Totally scarred me psychologically. Don't ask how long ago it was...
All 4, at one time. Awake and aware the entire time.
Yeah, it sucked. Haven't been back to the tooth-man since. Totally scarred me psychologically. Don't ask how long ago it was...
You're lucky 
Friend of mine had one of hers out and the next day it looked like she had been beaten up!
Friend of mine had one of hers out and the next day it looked like she had been beaten up!
Our dentist is acctually one of the nicest people I have ever met, and we have been going there for a while now. He even did my front tooth implant. So going there is never a problem, and I'll sit there and chat for a while before, during, and after the appointment. I hate to say it, but a good dentist should not hurt or make you uncomfortable.
Plus they like teasing me and vice versa, especially when I'm on pain drugs.
Plus they like teasing me and vice versa, especially when I'm on pain drugs.
Yeah, I don't think dentists do the 'yanking' thing anymore. I had a tooth removed last year (not a wisdom tooth) and I just remember the dentist doing a little picking and then sort of lifting it out. All of 10 minutes!
Exactly. All he did was numb it, poke it and ask me if I was alright, numb it some more, and gently pull it right out.
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Had three yanked (and I mean yanked, crunching back and forth on 'em to get 'em loose) under local anesthesia and the last one had to be surgically removed under general anesthetic.
Good times.
Good times.
I plan on doing the yogurt on the other side of my mouth thing for a few days.
I had all four taken out when I was about 25 or 26 but luckily they had to knock me out. They had to dislocate my jaw and cut bone away during the extraction in order to get them out. No way they could have done that with me awake.
I was pretty lucky. I was mighty sore for quite a while but at least I had minimal swelling and no bruising. I've seen people who looked like they were beaten with a baseball bat after the surgery.
However, I *do* know what it's like to have a tooth extracted with just Novocaine. None, and I literally mean NONE, of my primary teeth fell out on their own. I had to have every one of those damn things pulled by my dentist and they all came out with full roots. He let them go as long as he could but when they would start interfering with my permanent teeth coming in he had to pull them. Come to think of it, I also had two permanent teeth pulled in order to make room so I wouldn't need braces. Turned out to be a temporary fix though. I wore braces for about 18 months when I was 37-38.
Yeah, I love dentists!
I was pretty lucky. I was mighty sore for quite a while but at least I had minimal swelling and no bruising. I've seen people who looked like they were beaten with a baseball bat after the surgery.
However, I *do* know what it's like to have a tooth extracted with just Novocaine. None, and I literally mean NONE, of my primary teeth fell out on their own. I had to have every one of those damn things pulled by my dentist and they all came out with full roots. He let them go as long as he could but when they would start interfering with my permanent teeth coming in he had to pull them. Come to think of it, I also had two permanent teeth pulled in order to make room so I wouldn't need braces. Turned out to be a temporary fix though. I wore braces for about 18 months when I was 37-38.
Yeah, I love dentists!
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Got your 'rents and older bro beat:
All 4, at one time. Awake and aware the entire time.
Yeah, it sucked. Haven't been back to the tooth-man since. Totally scarred me psychologically. Don't ask how long ago it was...
Same thing with me! Except two of mine had to be broken into pieces before being removed from my jaw. Lovely sound, that.
I've been back to the dentist since then, though. Because I'm not from the South.
Same thing with me! Except two of mine had to be broken into pieces before being removed from my jaw. Lovely sound, that.
I've been back to the dentist since then, though. Because I'm not from the South.
Hey now, I have all of my teeth!
(well, except those 4 wisdom teeth, and the upper two front teeth which are caps...
)Yeah, they did that to 3 of mine...interesting experience, which I never wish to experience again.
The "yanking" as you call it is still done. The anesthesia is better!
Seriously though, yanking has never been a standard procedure for extracting a tooth.
I've had 4 removed at once last Wednesday. My face is still puffy and today i kept puking might be an infection idk. I was on liquid food until Sunday or so. It sucked/sucks really bad in my case. He broke the 2 bottom one to get them out wasn't especially a nice sound, quite scary actually.
edit: He had to cut to get to the tooth for the 4.
edit: He had to cut to get to the tooth for the 4.
What's with all these people getting a knock-out anaesthesia these days?
I had to have maxillo-facial surgery, and with a couple of injections I was numb to my eyeballs, but going unconscious seems pretty useless. Especially considering that the dentist/surgeon will have to pull against your head.
I had to have maxillo-facial surgery, and with a couple of injections I was numb to my eyeballs, but going unconscious seems pretty useless. Especially considering that the dentist/surgeon will have to pull against your head.
