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So, I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out Monday morning. Yay!
I was a bit worried about it until a couple days ago, when I decided to try to stop worrying whenever I got anxious about it. I keep thinking of weird problems that could happen during the procedure and it scared me for a while.
I'm getting general anesthesia so I can sleep through it.  I searched TL for some wisdom teeth topics, and I probably read too much about dentists using giant saws and screwdrivers and there being a lot of blood. I guess my greatest fear is the doc will use some big saw and slip, and then I'll have a big scar on my face like the Joker. That wouldn't be fun.
Unfortunately, I'm now 25 and don't have dental insurance, so it's going to cost me upwards of $1700. Boo! Should have gotten it done in high school like everybody else when I had kids' insurance.
All four of my teeth were coming in almost directly under other teeth. So I waited and waited, and about 1-2 years ago, I had some pain for about a week two or three times 6-12 months apart. I finally decided to get them taken out recently. Because I waited so long to get them x-rayed again, my bottom two wisdom teeth have now moved into reasonable positions and shouldn't have any problems coming out. My top teeth, the right one is half in, and the other is still completely under the gum.
So I'll have quite different operations done on each tooth. Funny, huh?
Maybe I'll tell them to use slightly less anaesthetic than they thought they should use. I'm a sleep-deprived gamer, after all. It would be funny if I woke up and the doc had one tooth left to pull, and all I could see was this giant scary face with some huge metal tool yanking the crap out of my face, and somebody else holding gauze to the blood spewing out of my mouth.
Fun times! 
 
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If you got it done professionally at a dentist, 1700$ sounds like a good price for the USA. I got it done for less but that's because I was at a dental college in Canada.
I heard people complain about the pain/inconvenience after the operation, but when I had it done it was a joke. It was a mild ache in my mouth for a while and I just ate soft food for a while. No need for painkillers or anything.
The only time I was ever remotely freaked out was a bit before the procedure when I was told that there was a 1.x% chance of some serious problem like permanent nerve damage or something(maybe it was more serious then that, I can't remember)
Mine were recommended to be removed because 3/4 were impacted/partially impacted and had a small cavity (which maybe isn't entirely a reason). I had no issues with them whatsoever, but I could understand that it could cause problems in the future. The last tooth was apparently removed "for the sake of it" despite that it was very deep below the gum line and entirely unerupted (saves me money this way I guess compared to if it caused trouble in the future).
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The one bonus to getting your wisdom teeth taken out is that you will probably lose weight. Cause it's harder to eat, so you (at least me) won't eat as much. I'm one of those people who has barely any body fat, so it wasn't that great for me. But if you are already trying to, or thinking about slimming down, then losing your wisdom teeth might help with that!
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On April 06 2014 16:05 Just_a_Moth wrote:
The one bonus to getting your wisdom teeth taken out is that you will probably lose weight. Cause it's harder to eat, so you (at least me) won't eat as much. I'm one of those people who has barely any body fat, so it wasn't that great for me. But if you are already trying to, or thinking about slimming down, then losing your wisdom teeth might help with that!
IDK, you can more or less drink all you want, and that's one of the main things that makes people fat. I guess it's still true to an extent, but reduced calorie intake for a week or two isn't going to have any significant impact over the course of a year.
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Makes no sense to do it in general anesthesia. There risks involved far exceed the risks of the operation itself. It only takes like 15-20 min to get one of those bad boys out with local anesthesia. I had it done like that and it was fine. Didn't feel any pain or anything. The swelling went away in a couple of days.
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Wow. I'm so happy I never had to go through this.
Best of luck that it works out alright!
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Get local anesthetic only so you can feel the dentist literally tearing the tooth out of your jaw.
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Belgium4558 Posts
On April 06 2014 17:24 SnipedSoul wrote:
Get local anesthetic only so you can feel the dentist literally tearing the tooth out of your jaw.
Or cutting open your gum. I also had 1 tooth underneath the gum still and with local anesthetic you can actually 'feel' how they are casually cutting you open. It doesn't hurt at all obviously, but you do know it's happening. I thought it was funny.
Didn't hurt in the slightest, all those horror stories of having blue cheeks for a week after the operation were greatle exaggerated too, no need to worry about it.
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its no biggie. Get local anesthetic so you dont have to recover from a full one.
You only feel a bit of pulling and wiggling, it doesnt hurt.
Afterwards it hurts a bit, but i didnt even take any the pain medication. It just didnt really hurt all that much.
I dont even know why they offer full anesthetic, thats a million times more dangerous and stressfull for the body than the actual teethpulling.
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In Finland they only offer full for people who have serious fear of dentist
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Netherlands13554 Posts
On April 06 2014 18:21 Laurens wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2014 17:24 SnipedSoul wrote:
Get local anesthetic only so you can feel the dentist literally tearing the tooth out of your jaw. Or cutting open your gum. I also had 1 tooth underneath the gum still and with local anesthetic you can actually 'feel' how they are casually cutting you open. It doesn't hurt at all obviously, but you do know it's happening. I thought it was funny. Didn't hurt in the slightest, all those horror stories of having blue cheeks for a week after the operation were greatle exaggerated too, no need to worry about it.
Totally depends on how deep they are. My bottom wisdom teeth were sloping downwards under my next tooth, pretty close to some nerves. So they had to cut away a lot of gum, and then drill the bottom wisdom teeth in 2 halves, so they could pick out the pieces. This left a pretty gaping hole at those places. With one of them they inserted a blood cloth thingy which was removed a week later. Pulling that bandage out without anesthetics hurt. After that I had to clean the hole out with a little squirt gun using some salted water to counter infections. Took a couple of weeks until it was healed up. The procedure itself wasn't fun for me. I was locally anesthetized. I didn't really feel pain but I felt immense pressure in my jaw when they were drilling my tooth in two which wasn't fun.
The top two were straight (with some gum on top) so they just cut away the gum and they could just pull it out. That didn't hurt at all. In my case, in the Netherlands at a tooth surgeon, they did it in two goes. First time the right pair, second time the left pair. This makes sure you can at least chew a little bit with one side. But yeah, I had pretty big fucking cheeks for a whole week, especially the second time where they had to go really deep.
If they're sitting straight though, it's just pull and it's out, and it's very easy. I guess my situation was kind of rare though. Dentist also wouldn't touch it so they sent me to a tooth surgeon because they wouldn't go near anything that might cause nerve damage.
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If they are going to be drilling into your jaw to get the teeth from under your gums and under other teeth, general is the way to go for sure.
Like twisted, they left huge holes when they were done and used some cheek skin to cover it up and help the healing.
Waiting also caused some twisting of the front teeth. Hope yours goes smooth and your left with a nice smile with no pain.
I'm a little surprised the bill is only going to run $1700, sounds like us-canada don't have a huge price difference for dental
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Dont be knocked out, its not a trivial thing to have happend. Do it with only local. Much less risk.
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Operated out or "pulled" out?
GF is a dentist. Getting putted under is a huge risk for such a trivial procedure.
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Just have a local, it's not painful, just a bit of discomfort/wrenching. Sounds ridiculously expensive. Mine was $250/300 in Korea and the dentist was top notch. The pain meds were a must for the first few hours after the local wore off though.
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this procedure sucks.
I had to eat like a duck for like a week, I couldnt chew, I had to swallow small bits of soft food lolll.
Your breath will also smell like shit. Put a towel over your pillows for a few days if you dont want to ruin them.
1700 feels like a awful lot :S
as the others said, you shouldnt go totally under for that, your body really hates that. What I did back in the day was bring my discman (lol), crank up the volume and close my eyes.
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also, mine was free, go socialist europe! 
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40 euros, bit of lidocaine, 30 minutes.
Go with local, and wtf is with the outrageous price?
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On April 06 2014 23:56 Jh wrote:
40 euros, bit of lidocaine, 30 minutes.
Go with local, and wtf is with the outrageous price?
#muricah
the dentist has to pay his college degree back!
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Good luck! You'll basically have to eat yoghurt, ice cream and puree (if you have a blender, use it on everything) for the following 2 weeks.
I had it done using local anesthesia. It sucked, but I survived. The first few days are the worst as your breath will feel like shit. Be sure to use mouthwash after and before bed, and after eating, as you'll probably be unable to brush your teeth until the initial swelling recedes.
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