Wisdom Teeth

[Daring Dave]

Ive finally succumbed to to the constant pain and visited the dentist who advises I need my 4 wisdom teeth and one other to be plucked out in hospital... :doh:

Anyone care to share their experience?

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[ving]

cheryl had all 4 out in one go... and in there lies a story that I wish not to repeat!
it was horrid to he extreme. she was the last job of the day at westmeade dental and they wanted to go home...

[Daring Dave]

Ving..

I feel soooo much better now.....NOT !!! :ashamed:

[ving]

mind you i have heard of plenty of good stories. :)
I know heaps of ppl who have had it done. you'll be fine, just keep the pain killers going for a couple of days. :)
cheryl's drama was a one of.

trust me, i work in a library :D

[Daring Dave]

Plenty of good stories ?? :confuse2: :confuse2:

So there ARE good stories about wisdom teeth extractions ??

I suspect you speak with forked tongue....lol :rofl:

[ving]

yeah good stories.... like a workmate who was in pain from her teeth for months and months, got them out and a few weeks later there was no more pain... I like happy endings :)

[wavelandscott]

I had all of mine out at once about 10 years back...

No major problems at all...and I felt much much better...

One thing to remember is that it is a "surgery" and it will take a few days to recover...

I am glad I did it!

[[1ponders]]

I've only one left to go. And it's got to go apparently. I had a piece of the harbour bridge fall out of one of my molars at 2:00 am Saturday morning. Managed to get into a dentist at nine on the following Monday :eyepop: :jawdrop: :eyepop: (now that's unheard of. only 48 hour wait), and of course he had to do a full check with all the Hmmmms and Ahhhhs. Yep number fours got to go. :( One day. Good luck with it dave. Let us know when its happening and I'll have a couple of glasses of dutch courage for you :)

Yep ving, Astrochickenbully :lol:

[ballaratdragons]

Dave, I've never had mine done, but of the people I know that have they had different outcomes.

The ones who didn't care and just wanted them out coped well and recovered fast.

The ones who whinged and complained and were very scared were in lots of pain and were sick and sore for weeks.

I think there is a message in there: Just get them ripped out without thinking about the outcome! Atleast the toothache will be gone.

[Daring Dave]

Oh the pain.... :doh:

Whilst carefully eating lunch today one of my wisdom teeth sent me to hell...
Upon arriving home I took a few pills and waited for law and order to be restored to my mouth....mmmmmm not a chance...

I was scheduled for hospital next week to have them all out but there was no chance of waiting till next week...

I had to get one plucked out in the chair to get me through...1st ever extraction actually...(It's interesting to hear your own teeth crack whilst the dentist is up close and personal on your chest !! well almost)


1 down...3 to go.....

I had to laugh though...Try saying 'prescription' when your still affected by the local anaesthetic ! Was hilarious...The lady at the chemist cracked up too... :cool:

Im sooooo hungry...but can't eat yet...

[ballaratdragons]

MY HERO!!!!

Onya Dave.
As long as you can still get you eye up to an eyepeice!

Dave: "Bow! wook at da lubbly dars donight!" :rofl:

[Daring Dave]

Ken Ken Ken....

You crack me up... :thumbsup:

Ohh I forgot to mention...Last night we had a roast and there is HEAPS left on a plate in the fridge.... GRRRRRRRRRRR Can't touch it... :scared:

[TidaLpHasE]

:(Too right on the pain, i have been putting off and putting off getting my back lower pulled out for a couple of months now, taking way too many panadeine to ease the pain at work.

I rang all my local dentists this afternoon and they were all booked out, :confuse2: this tooth just had to come out.

I found a dentist willing to charge me a small fortune to x-ray and possible extraction.

After a couple of injections he began removal, and you dont say that cracking sound is so in your face so to speak, a couple of goes and it was out, hoooray for that.

After getting two small fillings, 1 extraction, with the emergency fee, total for 1 hours work $740.00:scared:

Man it does pay to clean your teeth, it'll save you a small fortune in dentist bills.

My mouth is also still numb, and my lips, and my tounge,
glad i am not the only one suffering

[ballaratdragons]

Like I said to Dave,

I hobe you gan dill get your eye ub do da eye beice trebba!

[Daring Dave]

$740 bucks !! WOW

Whilst I didnt have any fillings it cost me $140 for the extraction and $45 for 2 xrays..... That was for the top right wisdom tooth. Took around 15mins all up....It kinda broke into pieces a few times...

[TidaLpHasE]

:scared2: They must have seen me coming, $250for the extraction, $40 for each x-ray x4, $90 for consultation, $240 for 2 fillings, mind you it was in brighton, and after hours.

There goes some of my scope budget :doh:

[Daring Dave]

Brighton and after hours....Say no more....

If your prepared to travel out near Tulla airport I can give you my blokes name...

Top bloke...and CHEAP as chips...

[xstream]

:lol: I certainly can sympathise with you guys, One extraction and xray yesterday total $140.....$89 refund from health insurance not too bad i suppose. Now if only the uncomfortable feeling would go away. :(

[Ganymede]

I made the mistake of having one of my wisdom teeth removed in a dentists surgery once... I'm sure the guy just wanted the practice! He convinced me it had to come out, so I fronted up for a gruelling couple of hours. (It may have been his first one, his hands were shaking like a leaf!!) That night was spent in agony, and was accompanied by the loss of what seemed like several litres of blood. I managed to drag myself back to the surgery next day where the dentists offsider 'repaired the damge' with a lump of gelfoam and about 4 stitches. :mad2:

I went back a couple of weeks later to get the stitches removed, whereupon he told me that it was imperative I have the second one removed within the next week as this too would cause heaps of problems.... Well, call me a coward if you like, but that was in 1986 and its still in my jaw to this very day, and, until it gives me trouble, that's exactly where it's going to stay!

Best of luck mate, rather you than me.:doh:

[Striker]

Dave.....dont listen to these guys...everything will go well....my wife had all 4 wisdom teeth out and it was fantastic...I never heard from her for over a week...fantastic.....hehehehe

So overall it was pleasureable experience for me but for my wife "EXTREME PAIN"

[Daring Dave]

Striker its all good so far....Bit sore and numb but no big deal.....thus far..

The worst part is not being able to finish off the leg of lamb in the fridge... :doh:

[TidaLpHasE]

Well i am having another sick day :2thumbs:

I woke up for work this morning with i bit of pain and didn't take too much time deciding a day of reat is in order.

Ganymede, i sure feel your pain at getting an apprentice to do that work, it makes a huge difference in the whole operation if the doc knows what he is doing:confuse3:.

Dave, i would travel interstate, take my fishing rods, yeah i suppose the missus to, stop at a motel for a night, and would still cost less than my bill last night.

PM me with your dentist's details, as i still have another extraction needed on the top back, and maybe on the lower side as well, Thanks.....

Leg of lamb you say, i have only just had my first cup of tea this morning, couldn't imagine choing down on anything much today.....

Hope you recover soon, and may they invent an easy removal procedure that doesn't involve jaw cracking, knees on chest, feet braced against the wall extractions we now have to endure.....:doh:

[Daemon]

When I was in the RAAF, we used to get called in for regular dental checks, but it was free, so what the hell. One particular time, they were poking and peering in my head, when the dentist pronounced, "all four wisdom teeth will have to go". Needless to say, I was a tad surprised. Four days later, they pulled the full set in one sitting, in the chair. It wasn't fun. The grinding, cracking, crunching sounds eminating from one's own skull are disconcerting, to say the least, as is the sensation of drowning in your own spit because the assistant is dancing to the radio rather than vacuuming your throat. Still and yet, it wasn't particularly bad, nor especially painful. What was a little irritating, is that when said evil teeth were delivered up for inspection on the stainless steel platter, there was absolutely nothing wrong with them; they were one hundred percent healthy and hale (asside from now residing outside my head, an environment to which they clearly were neither accustomed nor adapted for). When I asked for an explanation of this (or more accurately an, "exthphlanayor") the lady dentist smiled and said that, "Oh, we take them out as a matter of course just in case they give you trouble in the future, and to give ourselves practice. You don't really need them you know". I more or less disagreed, and felt I needed them to fill the holes in my mandibles. Nevertheless, there was no arguing (how can you argue when you can only speak in vowel sounds), and they refused to put them back.


All in all, not that bad a proceedure, nothing like getting your knee reconstructed while you watch, and neither especially painful nor having any long lasting effects (asside from fostering a distrust of dentists in general and pretty female ones in particular).

Enjoy.

Daemon.

[ballaratdragons]

Geez Daemon, When I was in the RAAF I had the Dentist check in 1975 and they didn't do anything! Just lucky I guess. Got very sick from those blasted injections though (the rotton glass tube and crocodile snapping tool injections).

[Daemon]

This was mid eighties, and at RAAF Richmond NSW, where they unfortunately had just completed a large new RAAF dental clinic full of bored and underworked dentists. Mandatory checks every year (or six months if they thought you'd let them get away with it). Damned irritating really. The worst was this god awefull ultrasonic tooth polisher they received (or had sent from some East German Stazi torture dungen). That thing really hurt and didn't seem to do a single useful thing. It was like someone sliding frozen razor blades between your teeth and your gums; much worse than having a few wisdom teeth hauled out (however superfluously).

Daemon.

[ving]

:lol: daemon!

on ya dave! your braver than me! :)

[Daring Dave]

Tip 101

DO NOT eat popcorn when your wisdom teeth are crook...

I knew I shouldn't have...but it was freshly popped....

AAARRRGGHHHHHH :doh: :doh: :doh:

[Starkler]

Ive had one out and one packed up, meaning the tooth to jaw bond was broken and the tooth reset into an upright position. If I had of known the complications of doing that (damaged nerves that made an entire half of my jaw extremely sensitive for weeks) I would have said hook em both out.

Getting a tooth pulled isnt so bad the day after once feeling comes back to your face and you stop dribbling :lol:

[ballaratdragons]

Dave,

Thanks for sending the pic of your dental work.

I have posted it in here so everyone else can see how your extraction went. :thumbsup: