What is it like getting your wisdom teeth pulled?

What is it like getting your wisdom teeth pulled?


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What is it like getting your wisdom teeth pulled?
okay so i got my wisdom teeth pulled a few months ago and im going to tell you about my whole experience along with what you should do and what you shouldnt.





okay so the day your getting them pulled you go to the oral surgeon. i had to watch a video about what they do during the surgery.. its pretty boring. then the doctor comes in and he puts an iv in your arm. he injects medicine in through the iv to knock you out. before i was knocked out he made me count to 5 and i was gone.(it is the best sleep you will ever have.. its so peaceful) then they do the surgery and you absolutely have no idea about whats going on.


the whole surgery lasts about 45 to 50 minutes or so.





when you wake up you will be in the recovery room or they may just leave you in the same room you had surgery in. your head will hurt just a bit and you will feel woozy and dizzy. your mouth will feel huge. nothing will hurt quite yet though.


then when you get home you should lay down for a little while.


(you will prolly end up sleeping for about 2-3 hours or so depending on the effect the medicine has on you)





when you wake up the first thing you will notice is all the pain in your mouth. Just relax and take the pain meds your doctor provided you. dont take vicodin and eat. it will make you sick. make shur you eat before you take the vicodin. bad experience if you take vicodin and then eat. the first 2 days you should eat cold soft foods. your jaw will be very soar.


i ate ice cream and i had smoothies and jamba juice. dont suck through a straw. it will cause your stitches to come loose and the incisions will open and then you will have to go back and get everything restitched. (not fun at all)





the next few days your jaw will be soar. you can start to eat warm foods but make shurr that it isnt too hot.


hot foods can be eaten after the fourth day or so.


for the whole first week soft foods is all you should eat. eating hard foods is painful.





you should be very careful while eating and brushing your teeth. make shurr to wash the surgical site because it can become dirty and your breath will smell. they give you a special tool to do that.





Keep taking your medications as prescribed.


if your appointment is scheduled during school hours well you will leave early from school that day and you will miss the next two days after that. you need atleast 2 days after your surgery to recover. i missed a total of three days when i had my wisdom teeth removed.
Reply:not bad
Reply:i dont know but it sounds painful!
Reply:It really differs on the person, so if you are looking for a definite answer I don't think that exists.
Reply:It really differs on the person, so if you are looking for a definite answer I don't think that exists.
Reply:Don,t think i had any wise teeth.
Reply:Man, that s*it hurts like you wouldn't believe, and your jaw will swell to the size of a cantaloupe. Just remember to take your pain pills as prescribed, even if it doesn't hurt at the time. You're gonna be high like Jimmy Hendrix man.
Reply:PAINFUL depending on how old you are. I waited until I was 24 to have all four pulled, they splintered on extraction, and I was out of work with infections for almost 6 weeks





but that's the worst case scenario





If you're about 15-18, not too bad.
Reply:I hd a oral surgon do mine. I remember him putting the needle in my arm ....next thing he was asking me was I ready to go home. No pain whats so ever. No other memories of it.
Reply:You're completely out almost before they get the IV in you (via nitrous). You wake up still pretty out of it. You keep taking the drugs and hardly feel anything. I was out Thur. %26amp; Fri.





I chopped wood on Saturday.
Reply:the morning before hand was bad because i knew it was coming, the operation was great cause i got Nitrous Oxide and totally passed out... the few hours after the surgery really sucked... the day after, was not as bad as i thought it'd be, and i got the day off from work... only one day though...
Reply:for me it was very painful.





they had to use an impact tool to split my wisdom teeth. they'd place the "punch" in the middle of my wisdom tooth, then hit it with a hammer to split the wisdom teeth vertically. then, grab the left over pieces with pliers to remove them.





i was out of school for 2 days.
Reply:I only had 3 done at once. It took 45 minutes, never felt a thing, went back to work the next day, but had to eat mushy stuff which always got stuck in the gaping holes. You gotta find a way to pick it out. It's not that bad if they're already poking through.
Reply:i have known 2 friends who have recently gotten their wisdom teeth taken out.


they told me that it hurts for weeks after you get it taken out.


as for missing school/work, they only had to miss it on the days they had to go to a doctor appointment. the pain you get afterward isn't bad enough so that you can't do anything.


i mean, you will still feel it, and bother you lots.
Reply:I got mine taken out during summer vacation - it wasn't bad at all. Within a minute, I was completely knocked out, and before I knew it, it was all over. I'd say that I didn't fully 'recover' until 2-3 days later.
Reply:Depends on your dentist, mine put me out to pull mine and I felt nothing at all. Just follow the instructions he or she gives you for what to do after they are pulled. It really is not a big deal.
Reply:getting them pulled was nothing, as i was passed out.....afterwards it hurt for a little bit, but not too bad....then I got an infection (forget what it is called but happens often) in the area where a tooth was pulled. That hurt like hell and absolutely sucked!! I was out for about 1 1/2 weeks.
Reply:It wasn't as bad as I imagined. The worst part was when I woke up after they were pulled. I was out of it and I almost hit the floor. I missed 3 days of work due to the swelling. I was sore for about 4 days.
Reply:well i can tell u it makes u alot dummer
Reply:PPAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:okay, it varies person to person. My mouth was sore for about a week and a half. I couldn't open my jaw all the way. For two weeks I could barely sleep because the vicodin didn't work for me, I have some type of resistance to it. My cheeks were swollen for about a week too. Anyways, it gets better in about two weeks max.
Reply:I don't remember as the dentist put me out. I remember counting backwards for about 2 numbers , then I woke up in the other room. 40 years ago when I had mine out I had to go back and get the stitches out that didn;t fall out. Now I think they use the ones that dissolve themselves.
Reply:Guess, You won't be quite as wise as you once were, Just kidding. Your Dentist will give you a shot,and you shouldn't feel too much pain.
Reply:When i got mine pulled it ddint hurt, just really nurvous. they drugged me up a lot. my sister tells me i stole rubber gloves from the dentist and ate green jello in them :P.


Yah but dont be nervouse at all, its not bad.
Reply:Well, I've heard some of my friends get shots to put them to sleep but I was given some pills and then they had this gas thing over my nose the whole time. I was pretty knocked out but I would wake up every now and then. But 'waking up' is not like actually being away. You just see things and you're in this haze where you don't even care or have enough energy to think lol. It's all dream-like. BRING AN IPOD OR MUSIC PLAYER. That way you can't hear anything along with not feeling anything either. So getting them pulled is easy. It's after that sucks because you can't eat real food for awhile. So get used to things like yogurt, soup, apple sauce, and anything that you don't chew. I heard the amount you swell depends. My sister swelled up bad and was in pain. But I swelled up a little and was in mild pain which they give you drugs for. You bleed for a while after. And it's hard to brush your teeth. But you just need to take it day by day and see how you feel. Eventually you will be able to chew more as the swelling goes down. I did it over the summer so I didn't have to miss anything. I think the swelling lasted a good couple days...maybe a week? But I couldn't eat anything I wanted for about two weeks or something. It's really not as bad as you think. I was freaked out before, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Good luck!
Reply:My wisdom teeth were taken out but they had no room to come in so they were cut out. They gave me laughing gas and I started laughing. The nurse said 'funny?' in such a way that it made me stop laughing. I think I had a shot too. It has been 20 years ago. The doctor started getting my teeth out and he had to really struggle with it. I felt nothing. They gave me a bottle of pain medicine and i went home. My mouth stayed numb for a while and i could not eat anything except soup or jello . i took my pain medicine for a few days because it was giving me a buzz. I don't remember having any pain.
Reply:total hell!!


my doc jacked up my jaw...forever.


tears.
Reply:You swell up like a chipmunk XD
Reply:It used to be that wisdom teeth were automatically extracted if they began to hurt. However, recent studies indicates they can be left in when the hurting is corrected by a dentist. No need to carry 1 or 2 holes at the back of your mouth. They provide the support to keep the rest of your teeth straight.





It is no more painful to extract wisdom teeth than any other tooth. Talk with the dentist and find out "why" the teeth must be removed. Ask "why" can't they be saved.





You can return to work or school the next day. Dentist recommend a liquid diet for 3 to 5 days to prevent food particles from entering the wounded area and causing infection. Rinse well after each meal. Don't sleep on the side where the tooth was pulled to not encourage bleeding.





I wish my would have been left in. Every now and then I get food (especially meat and nuts) particles lodged in the hole where one of my wisdom teeth was located. I begin to feel pain and have to really brush deep and hard plus floss very well to remove the food then all is well again.





Keep your dental hygiene 100% and you'll have no problems if they MUST BE removed. Good luck.
Reply:not bad.


they put you to sleep or they numb your mouth %26amp; you cant feel a thing, but when you wake up your mouth will still be numb. %26amp; then later it would be sore for couples of days
Reply:Well I had 6 wisdom teeth (yes...SIX), so they had no choice but to knock me out completely.





Here was my experience:





I was sitting there in the chair, watching the doc shoot me full of the medicine through an IV...and by the time I counted to 2 I was out cold. Next thing I remember was waking up in the recovery room.





Luckily, you don't feel a thing for a couple of hours. They inject your gums with plenty of numby stuffs, so you don't wake up in pain. I was a bit dizzy but otherwise ok.





When I got home I went right to sleep. When I woke up a few hours later, I began to feel a throbbing pain so I took a vicoden (prescribed by the doc). MISTAKE! Anestetic + vicoden = vomiting. After a few rounds of throwing up (the pill came up too) I learned NOT to take a full vicoden. Instead, taking 1/4 of the pill, then another 1/4 about 20 minutes later (and so on until you get a whole pill down) worked much better on my tummy.





I went to work the next day. HUUUUGE MISTAKE. I perform at animal shows and I did 3 school and boy scout shows that day. I threw up before and after every show and was in a fair amount of pain (headache, extreme nausea, that general "ew" feeling).





I took the following day off to recover. I was MUCH better. I was able to eat semi-solid foods by then, such as pancakes, pasta, and soups with potatoes/noodles. The stitches were an annoyance but weren't painful. I wasn't swollen at all (from Day 1 actually...mildly puffy but not chipmunky).





It took a whole week before I could eat real solid food (pizza, sandwhiches, ect.) without cringing. Overall the experience was no biggie. I never had electric pain or crippling pain, only some light throbbing (pain pills killed that though) and mild pressure-pain if I tried eating something too solid within the first few days.





Its not scary, not at all. :-) Plus you get happy time pills!



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