All 4 Wisdom Teeth at once

Oh yeah, if you have one in your nasal cavity, be prepared for bloody noses. My nose bled randomly for 4-5 days after.

good luck with your teeth in the future.
i have 1 wisdom tooth left.
a few weeks back i had a bad tooth pulled.
never before in my life have i ever had such an excruciating tooth ache.
thank god that fucker got pulled.
the oral surgeon dude had to grind the tooth into several pieces to pull it.
lots of pressure, it wouldn't come out without breaking my jaw.

what i do miss are the vicodin and morphine pills i wasn't abusing

MrMerkinball wrote:

One more question...

I have to give a very important presentation to our VP and his staff on Monday afternoon.

I am getting this done on Thurs at 8am, so I have almost 4 full days of recovery before Monday's meeting.

What are the chances of being OK for that presentation?

OMG you have guts!!!!

I had surgery to remove all of mine and I took a week off work. I was in sales at the time and there was no way I even wanted to be around people, let alone talk...not that anyone could understand me either!! LOL I was lucky in that they removed mine befroe they got roots on them, but they were rotated and coming in at crazy angles under other teeth, so still a painfull pain in the ass. I couldn't eat anything decent for a month...it was pretty bad, but the drugs they gave me were very good....combining them with alcohol, proably wasn't the best idea I had, but it took away the pain and I slept most of the time.

Oh and to top it off, just as I was starting to eat normal foods again, my boyfriend at the time, went and got his jaw broken in 2 places, had to have surgery for that.......yep...more mushy food. The blender was going non-stop for about 2 months straight.

Roast dinners just arn't the same when they are blended!

i had all 4 of mine done the monday before xmas... not the best time of my life... but it was more discomfort and ugliness than physical pain... though i hear its different for everyone...

GOOD LUCK! just do whatever they tell ya and you should be over it pretty quick

I was knocked out for mine as well.. It was fine. I DID make a fool of myself trying to drink some water when I couldn't feel my lip however!

ZiggyStar wrote:

It will be hard to open your mouth for a while but don't drink with a straw! You may suck out your blood clots and you definitely don't want that!!

And make sure your holes don't get bits of food in them and get infected. For quite a while after the operation I had food getting caught in my holes which I would always try to feel with my tongue. So annoying. My doctor gave me this massive syringe to use to lightly spray water into the holes to dislodge any stuck food. Flush that shit straight out! Sounds gross, I know....because it was! :?

Yeah I had the squirter thing.
I was told to rinse 2-3 times a day with warm salted water to kill any bacteria.

Had mine done must of been almost 15 years ago. All four were screwed up bad, impacted. The bottom ones had to be picked out piece by piece. But in my case I was sedated (spelling?). But yea the recover is no fun just because of having to be careful while eating. I was eating solid foods the first week, but small bites and chewing it up really good with my front teeth. The biggest thing was getting foot in the wounds from the surgery...

Good luck though.

TravisTheSky wrote:

Does anyone know a charity in L.A. that will do it on the cheap?!?!

Most dental schools at major universities offer programs where you can have them removed on the cheap...the work is done by dental students under supervision.....that's what I did....and I had no problems.

Are they knocking you out? Anesthesia tends to make act a little strange coming out of it. Apparently I was singing along to the Fleet Foxes all the way home. I had no clue there was blood dripping out of my mouth. I do remember that I was pretty happy most of the day.

I know you have a job and family and all that...

But the drugs they give you are kind of nice.