Wisdom Teeth

[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...

[TidaLpHasE]

Well i am having another sick day

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.

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.....

[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 (Ken)]

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 (David)]

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

[Starkler (Geoff)]

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

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

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.