#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Wisdom Teeth grow super super slowly. Mine caused a fair amount of pain for a few years, but they were growing in straight
the only reason I got them out is they never really fit in my mouth quite right so it was impossible to brush them properly. They would get a little bit of food or sugar tucked in behind them and it'd just never come out so they got hella cavities and rot.
Wisdom Teeth grow super super slowly. Mine caused a fair amount of pain for a few years, but they were growing in straight
the only reason I got them out is they never really fit in my mouth quite right so it was impossible to brush them properly. They would get a little bit of food or sugar tucked in behind them and it'd just never come out so they got hella cavities and rot.
mine too! also the reason all of my back molars have crowns
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Yeah I had all four taken out in June, was knocked right the fuck out for it
Same here, all out at once and knocked out. It was the weirdest experience too, like a small segment of my life went missing or I time traveled. I remember them inserting the IV, then IMMEDIATELY (I think in reality maybe 45 min had passed?) waking up and it was over. It wasn't even like sleep, or dreamless sleep .. it was like I lost time.
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yup, been under general anaesthesia a few times.
In regular sleep, I know that I've been asleep and I have a pretty good idea both that time has passed, and how much of it.
Anaesthesia sleep? Nope. I wake up wondering when they're going to start.
At one point, I was actually supposed to have all my wisdom teeth taken out. They hooked me up to the heart monitor the first time and found that I had an irregular heartbeat, so I had to go to a cardiologist to get them to sign off on me being okay to go under.
Then the second time, they got the IV in and I don't remember anything after that, but I'm told that I just started swinging at people so they decided not to go ahead and pull the teeth.
Had all four of mine out in the Army, plus an impacted baby molar and the permanent tooth underneath it. They gave me the option of keeping the permanent tooth, but said I'd have to pay for the braces required for it to grow in properly, plus for five teeth it would have been just local anesthesia, but six teeth meant they put me under. So I opted to just be missing a tooth.
So, I got my wisdom teeth removed about 18 years ago because three of the four were impacted and the 4th was going to be. Because of how they grew in, they would have to be sectioned in my mouth and removed in pieces.
You've heard that cocaine is a hell of a drug? So is Valium. You see, I was given two pills to take an hour before the surgery. One was ibuprofen, and one was valium. I was advised to arrange a ride to and from the dental surgeon, and my mother agreed to take me. So she showed up to take me half an hour after I took the medication, and had to escort me to her Astro minivan. Once she got me inside, she had to buckle me in because I was no longer capable of doing so.
It's about 20 minutes to drive to the office. The trip went something like this:
1) I'm so relaxed.
2) Slump forward until head is on dash.
3) Have mother push me back into a sitting position.
4) Goto (1).
This happened at least a dozen times.
When we got to the dental surgeon's office, it was on the second floor of a small office complex. At either end of the complex were spiral staircases. My mother gets me out of the car and starts walking me up the staircase. They turned sharply enough that she couldn't hold my hand, and apparently she continued going up without me. I'm told that it took both my mother, the receptionist, and a nurse about 20 minutes to find me because I had sat down in the middle of the staircase and couldn't be seen at all. His office, of course, was by the opposite staircase.
So, they finally get me in, drug me, do the work, and send me home. My next memory is waking up at my parents, when they removed the cotton from my mouth and were supposed to feed me some chicken soup. Apparently the blood clots from where my teeth had once resided stuck more to the cotton than to me, and I ended up with dry sockets. At the time, however, I was still very drugged. So they got me to sit up, and were feeding me a little soup. All I can remember to this day is looking down, with blood dripping from the dry sockets down my face, and watching it drip into the soup while thinking "Man, that makes such beautiful colors."
Yeah I had all four taken out in June, was knocked right the fuck out for it
Same here, all out at once and knocked out. It was the weirdest experience too, like a small segment of my life went missing or I time traveled. I remember them inserting the IV, then IMMEDIATELY (I think in reality maybe 45 min had passed?) waking up and it was over. It wasn't even like sleep, or dreamless sleep .. it was like I lost time.
Just nummed for mine! Getting knocked out would have cost $200 out of pocket. I was 19 and was all "Fuck that!" They had to double dose me with Novacane but they got the job done. Used a special pair of pliers to break up my teeth for extraction. Hearing my teeth creak and groan from the pressure before breaking was the weirdest fucking noise. Now if they had to perform surgury to get them out...well I would have paid the $200 for that, as it was they didn't have to cut up my gums at all.
Based on my experience, if you have the choice between having a dentist remove your wisdom tooth and having an oral surgeon remove a wisdom tooth, pick the surgeon every damn time. Apparently oral surgeons have some magical.... thing... they put on a non-impacted tooth and it just... comes out. Like it's metal, and you can feel them tighten it a little bit and then theres a feeling similar to popping your knockle and you're done. Tooth is out and here's some gauze. I had two different oral surgeons do this to two seperate wisdom teeth.
But dentist, oh no, that's going to be an ungodly amount of time laying in a chair feeling every tug and snap of slowly breaking a tooth into little bits before pulling out it out piece by piece. And then having it get infected, have the infection misdiagnosed as a simple dry socket, end up in the ER with a throat almost swollen completely shut at 3 am in a significant amount of pain before being finally drugged up, given antibiotics and then being refered to an oral surgeon.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
I wasn't trying to... I left out a lot of the infection details so as not to cause distress (it was really, really gross!)
On the plus side, I got to try my very first intravenous opiate. Like three seconds after they injected the IV I understood why people became heroin junkies.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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Fuck you, second guy I delivered to. Why do you always get cranky when your order is early? There are plenty of people who are okay with getting their food early, 'cause then it's not late! It wasn't even that early! It was 15 minutes! Why you gotta be such a whiny punk?
Fuck you, second guy I delivered to. Why do you always get cranky when your order is early? There are plenty of people who are okay with getting their food early, 'cause then it's not late! It wasn't even that early! It was 15 minutes! Why you gotta be such a whiny punk?
Jimmy Johns delivered my order 15 minutes early today and it was kind of inconvenient because I had timed it to coincide with my lunch break and was busy at the time
yup, been under general anaesthesia a few times.
In regular sleep, I know that I've been asleep and I have a pretty good idea both that time has passed, and how much of it.
Anaesthesia sleep? Nope. I wake up wondering when they're going to start.
All three times I've had anesthesia I've come out of it groggy and disoriented. It's pretty much like fainting, only you know it's going to happen. Like a slice of your life got removed from your brain and you'll never get it back.
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I went under general when I was like 10 or 11
I woke up confused and groggy and started crying but didn't know why
reading books about the nigerian oil wars and ptsd and depression and then articles about depression and psychosis and suicide DUMB IDEA typical friday ideas right there, man.
Around here it would be really unusual to be put under for wisdom teeth. How pleasant an experience you'll have does really depend on the skill of the dentist, though. I had to have four out, and the guy did one side of my mouth first and then actually asked me if I wanted the other two out right there and I said no, since that just makes recovery more annoying, and it had been so 'pleasant' that I was fine with the prospect of having the last two out at a later date.
On an actual fuck you Friday note - I was going to get some sleep, but there are hordes of drunk children yelling in the street, and lots of fireworks (I hope) going off.
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Around here it would be really unusual to be put under for wisdom teeth. How pleasant an experience you'll have does really depend on the skill of the dentist, though.
Not really. It has a lot to do with the skill of the dentist, sure. But it has way more to do with the condition, location and orientation of the tooth and any surrounding nerves.
Dental surgeons don't have some magic metal tool that makes teeth pop out. They have drills and pliers and clamps just like dentists do. Sometimes your teeth will just pop out, sometimes they're too deteriorated and the pressure needed to get a grip on them will make them break, sometimes they're impacted and need to be broken to get any grip at all, sometimes they're too close to a nerve or a nerve is wrapped around the root.
I had one wisdom tooth out in under local by my dentist and it was easy as pie and took 20 minutes from sitting in the chair and paying my bill.
Later she tried to take out another wisdom tooth, but because of some nerve issues, had to give it up to a surgeon, who could only take it out without me screaming in agony because I was unconscious.
Skill and experience are hugely important as well. You can find dentists that do very little besides that kind of work, and they will be considerably better at it. This is fairly logical.
You'll also find dentists who are rather bad, relatively speaking, at pulling teeth - because they don't have to do it much.
Whatever factors are in play makes the overall experience more or less pleasant, but regardless of those, I'd go ahead and pick the guy who pulls a lot of teeth, and not the guy who pulls one a month, if that.
EDIT: Of course, sometimes it just comes down to the person. I know one dentisk who's a nightmare for people to work with, and presumably for patients as well, because he's overly cautious, and will take so fucking long to do anything, especially pull teeth. It'll be an hour instead of 20 minutes. And he mostly works on kids, which doesn't help exactly.
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Like I said, it does have a lot to do with the skill of the dentist
but some are just harder to do and more traumatic than others. Some extractions require pretty brutal steps. Regardless of the skill of the dentist/surgeon, having a broken, infected, impacted wisdom tooth, close to a nerve in a small jaw is going to be less pleasant than a simple extraction.
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the only reason I got them out is they never really fit in my mouth quite right so it was impossible to brush them properly. They would get a little bit of food or sugar tucked in behind them and it'd just never come out so they got hella cavities and rot.
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It was the taste.
The dust and bits of my teeth would land on the back of my tongue and I could taste that shit.
Top 5 of pretty uncomfortable experiences for sure. I'd rather get pepper sprayed again.
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you were awake for yours????
mine too! also the reason all of my back molars have crowns
Wide awake. Was in boot camp though, so I imagine a civilian dentist would put you under if you desire.
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The other three are still floating around being occasionally annoying, haven't caused me enough grief to get them pulled
Yeah I had all four taken out in June, was knocked right the fuck out for it
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Same here, all out at once and knocked out. It was the weirdest experience too, like a small segment of my life went missing or I time traveled. I remember them inserting the IV, then IMMEDIATELY (I think in reality maybe 45 min had passed?) waking up and it was over. It wasn't even like sleep, or dreamless sleep .. it was like I lost time.
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In regular sleep, I know that I've been asleep and I have a pretty good idea both that time has passed, and how much of it.
Anaesthesia sleep? Nope. I wake up wondering when they're going to start.
Then the second time, they got the IV in and I don't remember anything after that, but I'm told that I just started swinging at people so they decided not to go ahead and pull the teeth.
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Almost stoned like. They were wheeling me to the operating room and I was giggling at things and making jokes.
Then they gave me the actual anesthesia and told me to count backwards from 100
I got to 97 and I was in another room and my throat was really sore for some reason
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So, I got my wisdom teeth removed about 18 years ago because three of the four were impacted and the 4th was going to be. Because of how they grew in, they would have to be sectioned in my mouth and removed in pieces.
You've heard that cocaine is a hell of a drug? So is Valium. You see, I was given two pills to take an hour before the surgery. One was ibuprofen, and one was valium. I was advised to arrange a ride to and from the dental surgeon, and my mother agreed to take me. So she showed up to take me half an hour after I took the medication, and had to escort me to her Astro minivan. Once she got me inside, she had to buckle me in because I was no longer capable of doing so.
It's about 20 minutes to drive to the office. The trip went something like this:
1) I'm so relaxed.
2) Slump forward until head is on dash.
3) Have mother push me back into a sitting position.
4) Goto (1).
This happened at least a dozen times.
When we got to the dental surgeon's office, it was on the second floor of a small office complex. At either end of the complex were spiral staircases. My mother gets me out of the car and starts walking me up the staircase. They turned sharply enough that she couldn't hold my hand, and apparently she continued going up without me. I'm told that it took both my mother, the receptionist, and a nurse about 20 minutes to find me because I had sat down in the middle of the staircase and couldn't be seen at all. His office, of course, was by the opposite staircase.
So, they finally get me in, drug me, do the work, and send me home. My next memory is waking up at my parents, when they removed the cotton from my mouth and were supposed to feed me some chicken soup. Apparently the blood clots from where my teeth had once resided stuck more to the cotton than to me, and I ended up with dry sockets. At the time, however, I was still very drugged. So they got me to sit up, and were feeding me a little soup. All I can remember to this day is looking down, with blood dripping from the dry sockets down my face, and watching it drip into the soup while thinking "Man, that makes such beautiful colors."
I take a valium and it makes me a little relaxed and tired, but nothing noteworthy.
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she said the shape of it could have been designed WAY better and, as well as being uncomfortable, it didn't really do anything for her.
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Just nummed for mine! Getting knocked out would have cost $200 out of pocket. I was 19 and was all "Fuck that!" They had to double dose me with Novacane but they got the job done. Used a special pair of pliers to break up my teeth for extraction. Hearing my teeth creak and groan from the pressure before breaking was the weirdest fucking noise. Now if they had to perform surgury to get them out...well I would have paid the $200 for that, as it was they didn't have to cut up my gums at all.
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But dentist, oh no, that's going to be an ungodly amount of time laying in a chair feeling every tug and snap of slowly breaking a tooth into little bits before pulling out it out piece by piece. And then having it get infected, have the infection misdiagnosed as a simple dry socket, end up in the ER with a throat almost swollen completely shut at 3 am in a significant amount of pain before being finally drugged up, given antibiotics and then being refered to an oral surgeon.
On the plus side, I got to try my very first intravenous opiate. Like three seconds after they injected the IV I understood why people became heroin junkies.
Whelp, I'm out.
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Jimmy Johns delivered my order 15 minutes early today and it was kind of inconvenient because I had timed it to coincide with my lunch break and was busy at the time
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All three times I've had anesthesia I've come out of it groggy and disoriented. It's pretty much like fainting, only you know it's going to happen. Like a slice of your life got removed from your brain and you'll never get it back.
I woke up confused and groggy and started crying but didn't know why
Siiigh.
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On an actual fuck you Friday note - I was going to get some sleep, but there are hordes of drunk children yelling in the street, and lots of fireworks (I hope) going off.
Not really. It has a lot to do with the skill of the dentist, sure. But it has way more to do with the condition, location and orientation of the tooth and any surrounding nerves.
Dental surgeons don't have some magic metal tool that makes teeth pop out. They have drills and pliers and clamps just like dentists do. Sometimes your teeth will just pop out, sometimes they're too deteriorated and the pressure needed to get a grip on them will make them break, sometimes they're impacted and need to be broken to get any grip at all, sometimes they're too close to a nerve or a nerve is wrapped around the root.
I had one wisdom tooth out in under local by my dentist and it was easy as pie and took 20 minutes from sitting in the chair and paying my bill.
Later she tried to take out another wisdom tooth, but because of some nerve issues, had to give it up to a surgeon, who could only take it out without me screaming in agony because I was unconscious.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
You'll also find dentists who are rather bad, relatively speaking, at pulling teeth - because they don't have to do it much.
Whatever factors are in play makes the overall experience more or less pleasant, but regardless of those, I'd go ahead and pick the guy who pulls a lot of teeth, and not the guy who pulls one a month, if that.
EDIT: Of course, sometimes it just comes down to the person. I know one dentisk who's a nightmare for people to work with, and presumably for patients as well, because he's overly cautious, and will take so fucking long to do anything, especially pull teeth. It'll be an hour instead of 20 minutes. And he mostly works on kids, which doesn't help exactly.
Bullshit.
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would a doodle make you feel a little better, @Lost Salient?
but some are just harder to do and more traumatic than others. Some extractions require pretty brutal steps. Regardless of the skill of the dentist/surgeon, having a broken, infected, impacted wisdom tooth, close to a nerve in a small jaw is going to be less pleasant than a simple extraction.
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