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Wisdom Teeth and Anesthesia
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Is getting your wisdom teeth out, without anesthesia really horrible?
I have to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth out, and was thinking of doing it without anesthesia, just with what ever pain killer thing they inject into your gums. My friends, husband and mother think that getting it done with out anesthesia is a very bad idea...but all of them have only had it done with anesthesia.
I was imagining the only part of not being knocked out that would suck, would be the sound of the dentist breaking open my teeth and pulling them out of my gums. ewww...
Getting knocked out to get some teeth pulled seems a little over kill to me, and anesthesia in general seems kind of scary/dangerous. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure my dental insurance doesn't cover anesthesia, so that'll be 300-400 dollars outta my pocket.
Anybody have any experiances getting teeth pulled with out anesthesia?
I have to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth out, and was thinking of doing it without anesthesia, just with what ever pain killer thing they inject into your gums. My friends, husband and mother think that getting it done with out anesthesia is a very bad idea...but all of them have only had it done with anesthesia.
I was imagining the only part of not being knocked out that would suck, would be the sound of the dentist breaking open my teeth and pulling them out of my gums. ewww...
Getting knocked out to get some teeth pulled seems a little over kill to me, and anesthesia in general seems kind of scary/dangerous. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure my dental insurance doesn't cover anesthesia, so that'll be 300-400 dollars outta my pocket.
Anybody have any experiances getting teeth pulled with out anesthesia?
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So I probably wouldn't skip it.
Also, it's really not that dangerous to get. From what I recall, very very few people ever suffer any complications with it (I'm not talking full abdominal surgery or anything, where they knock you out for like 8 hours).
If it's done right, you shouldn't feel any pain.
Sedation is very nice, it is like going to sleep and then you wake up dizzy and very calm, and the teeth are gone.
I arrived to the dentist office and had several x-rays taken from my jaws, he studied them and then the assistant (who was a specialist in sedation, asked several questions), once in the chair, they connected a sensor to one of my fingers to monitor my heartbeats. To make the sedative work faster, the doctor asked me to start counting in reverse order from 20 to 1.
Three horn-shaped teeths were removed. I didn't feel anything.
My friends brother had to get his tonsils out. So they put him under anesthesia. Well, the family was waiting in the waiting room and the nurse comes in and tells them there were complications with the anesthesia and that he was dieing or was dead, I forget which one. They were later able to revive him.
Just hearing that scares the shit outta me. Simple fucking procedure and then hearing your child was dead.
Edit: Aw man the smell of burnt enamel, I haaaate that so bad.
Post-wisdom teeth, I went back home, sleeped, drooled blood all over my pillow and still didnt hurt or nothing. My friend got the full anasthesia and looked like a hamster for a week after that but maybe her dentist just suck.
they did the right side one visit, then a few weeks later the left side.
they told me after they numbed me "you wont feel pain, you'll only feel pressure"
mother fuck did it hurt.
i got done and the dentist says "the marines could use a guy like you" apparently because i took the pain though.
the best part is looking into my mouth, yanking out a tooth the dentist says "oh my god......" thats not anything you want to hear from someone digging in your mouth, but apparently one of my teeth had some of the most unique root structure he had ever seen.
Ah, I misread slightly. I thought he wasn't getting anything at all.
Blegh - if it were me, I'd still get knocked out. My mother got two of her wisdom teeth out recently with a local, and apparently it hadn't kicked in yet, or they hadn't given her enough...and she was really in a lot of pain.
Then again, the idea of "mouth pain" and the dentist has always scared the absolute hell out of me, so I'd always opt for getting knocked out. Still, I don't really think that procedure is incredibly dangerous. I've heard of people having complications and dying, but I've always thought that just involved people with health problems to begin with, who end up maybe getting a bit too much knock-out anesthetic...and that result was pretty rare. Right?
kinda off-topic, but the sensor was probably a pulse oximeter, it monitors your SpO2 levels as well as your pulse, very crucial in anesthesia. i was just excited something i did in my BME class showed up, >.>
On the other hand, nothing could compare to the pain I was in when the numbness wore off and the prescription on my pain meds was taking a rediculous amount of time to be filled. The operation was fine though!
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Yes please.
I've pulled my own teeth with pliars and a napkin and if for no other reason, I'd rather not hear the sounds in my head ever again.
I went in, sat in the chair, they gave me an oxygen thing for my nose, and said "you'll feel a little prick in your arm" they stuck a needle in, and the next thing I remember is waking up in another bed with my mom looking at me. Apparently it only took like 15 minutes.
My dad had it done without anesthesia, but with a local instead. They ran into complications with his teeth and couldn't get one of them out. So after 3 hours of sitting there with his mouth open and a ton of pain (as you can imagine, the local wore out, not that it apparently numbed the jaw bone) he had 3 wisdom teeth gone, and one tooth that had just been crushed and still had to be removed later. When he went to the new person for the last tooth he used anesthesia.
I'm sure it wouldn't be TOO bad doing it with a local if all goes well, but if you run into problems like that you DONT want to see what they do. (My dad recalls the doctor putting one foot on the back of his seat to give him extra leverage to help pull it out.)
Three at one time, one at the other. It was really painless and very quick. There's some initial worry since you can feel pressure, you just can't feel pain. My roots weren't deep, and some tugging (and some other tools) took all of them out. I only need stitches for one's incision, I think.
If you're calm enough, this is a fine option. Also, if your wisdom teeth are recent enough and the roots haven't connected to the bone. Following your dentist's suggestion is usually good enough.
Good luck with either decision!
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There's virtually no risk when under a general anaesthetic and the problems arisen from involuntary movement while under a local anaesthetic(coughs and sneezes were mentioned earlier in the thread) are avoided entirely.
I was put under a general anaesthetic for both the removal of my wisdom teeth and an appendectomy earlier this year and I found it to be quite alright, plus you get the (almost)coolness of having relatively long periods of time pass in the blink of an eye.
The prospect of doing this without anaesthetic is making my eyes water. Just don't.
The thing I didn't like most about general was that everyone I know who has gone through it has been sick for a few days afterwards. (vomiting, fever) And from the stories in here it looks like people who did local wern't sick afterwards, just in pain.
Also, the burnt enamel smell, were they cauterizing your wounds or something? Why are they going to be putting something that hot in my mouth. O.o
Admitedly all of them were on the NHS, so local anaesthetics were probably cheaper and could be administered by a dentist, rather than having to go into hospital.
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Oh man, fuck you. Mine sucked.
I highly recommend going under. If there are no complications with the extractions, it can take 30-45 mins. Mine took over an hour. My surgeon just couldn't get'em to come out, at all. The nurse described him actually crawling on my chest and pulling to get them out, because they wouldn't budge. I couldn't eat solid food for at least a week, and was testing the limits of advil overdose.
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Here's what I did, and what I highly recommend you do as well. With plain dental, my bill was close to 500$ USD or so. I had a hunch that maybe my medical coverage would pick up the price of the anathesia, and made a few phone calls to them. They adamantly said 'no', they wouldn't despite any logic on my part that it's surgery, and i'm paying those assholes to help out. Anyways, I call my dental insurance and ask'em what the procedure is, and the helpful helpdesk agent actually encouraged me to submit two seperate claims. One for the full surgery to the dental insurance, and a seperate claim to my medical insurance for the anathesia. The agents reasoning was simple: If my medical insurance rejects the claim, my dental is going to pick it up anyways, so basically the worst my medical insurance could say is 'no', and nothing really changes. I took his advice, and the day of surgery I had them submit two claims.
Three weeks later I got a check for $276 bucks from my surgeon.
Having done both, I can say I'm more of a fan of local to general anesthesia. Given, my general anesthesia was accompanied by a day or two in the hospital recovering, but still. Under local I was done in like 45 minutes and walking away from it.
I had mine done and it was terrifying. First, I was nervous as fuck that I might be talking while under the effect of the laughing gas and say some pretty horrible things. (Furries, porn, and the like) but I remember counting down from 100, I got to 90, and had to rub my eye and.... then sometime later, I woke up on the couch at home watching Geraldo with a mouth full of cotton. Apparently the whole time I was mumbling stuff and giggling. I even bit the nurse who tried to change the cotton out of my mouth twice and they had to carry me to the car. I was 16 at the time and the doctor might have overloaded me with that shit but at least I have the joy of not remembering a thing about it except for the aftermath of changing cotton pieces.
I would ask around for your dentist to do it though. This is just one of those things you can't really cut corners on to save a few bucks or to make things more convenient. We had to pay a couple hundred dollars out of our own pocket as well as drive about 2 hours to get there but it was really worth it, imo because I healed up fairly quick.
No its from the friction of the drill against your teeth as far as I know, and probably blood mixed in for a nice concoction of bad smells. Its like burnt hair almost -- shit that just wasn't meant to burn!
If you're feeling pain during a dental procedure under local tell them tell them tell them. You're not supposed to tough it out, you're supposed to get more needles. Usually only the first needle hurts at all - after that you're too anesthetised to feel them.
I'd really recommend using local anesthesia (although you should ask your dentist). I've had a bunch of dental and medical procedures, and my basic rule is to get the minimum anesthesia necessary. Generals do carry a risk (it's not just 'going to sleep'), and usually mess you up regardless (vomiting, feeling incredibly tired etc).
The main reason though, is that I find these things much less traumatic and scary when I have some idea of what's going on. The more anesthesia I have, the more it becomes 'scaryviolentidunnowhatshappening!'