Wisdom Teeth
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- bulletfactory0
I haven't smoked since I my wisdom teeth were removed - Since I couldn't smoke right after the surgery, due to risk of a dry socket, I decided it was as good a time as any to stop. I never started up again.
I've had one or two after some drinks here and there, but no more than like 10 in the past 7 years.
So having my shit-ton of wisdom teeth removed had a bonus in both health and saved cash.
- Nice dude. It's a tough habit to kickgilgamush
- Thats sort of how im feeling now. I quit for 2yrs, started 6 months ago, had this surgery, now i havent had one in 11 days im like uhh hmm uhhh lolrabbit
- But i was enjoying my cigarettes before the surgery and had no intention to quit, now I did kind of quit without even 'wanting' to :\
WTFrabbit - (no intention to quit this month, by end of year I will 'again').rabbit
- the Percocet definitely helped with dropping the smokes. Having 10 wisdom teeth, the oral surgeon hooked me up - said he didn't want me to worry about pain.bulletfactory
- giving up the Percocet was tougher :)bulletfactory
- freedom0
I had 3 removed when I was like 18.
- prophetone0
early 20s... one day massive tooth pains, cheeks beet red, they needed to go. so had all 4 done at once, with a local sthetic, hammer, chisel, dentist over me w/ knee in chest. echoing sound of teeth splitting, crunching sounds, metal clanking, smell of bone and finally halves removed. have fun kids!
- Must have been hard growing up in 1897. But seriously, WTF with the technique? You get TMJ outta that?ETM
- yeah i always kinda wondered about that, i remember every sound and sensation of that experience... which is prob not good hahaprophetone
- Dr. Lecter gave me a good deal tho!prophetone
- detritus0
I put off getting an increasingly impacting Wisdom Tooth Out for years.
Pure cowardice,
Stupid.
The actual effort and pain in getting it sorted out was a couple of orders of magnitude less than bother than just getting rid of a wisdom tooth which had given up the ghost and caused me a week's worth of the worst pain I've ever felt.
If you're a smoker though, watch out for dry socket.
Google that motherfucker.
- i got by dry socket by nasally huffing weed for a few days. I've known three people who carried on smoking and ended up with big, painful, holes in their gums..detritus
- < and ^ i am 4 days in, was just about to light a cigarette. Think I'll wait. Thanks guys :)rabbit
- looks like i survived without dry socket, didnt smoke for 2 weeks as per docs orders.rabbit
- prophetone1
i have another great tooth story... smashed my face and blacked out while doing a 360 at grade 7 school crossing guard skate at local ice rink. front top tooth folded back them forward again, blood all over ice, severed roots, had to root canal. girl skated away unimpressed.
fast forward to late twenties, root canal failing unbeknownst to me, flossing one day, floss goes totally over my tooth and i'm like uhhhhh... one whole tooth root thing has decayed away due to gums fighting the whitening bleach in my tooth.
so, have to get an implant. step 1, remove tooth, sew up. see local dental surgeon who is basically one day from his retirement 'n all shaky and squinty, who proceeds to massacre my tooth from my face and ever so slowly, stitch my gums up all slow shaky like... all done.
punchline is coming... on my way out, i must have walked by two nurses plus the nurse who was helping him plus the receptionist who was dealing with my $$$$$$$$ payment for like 10 mins... and no one mentions anything 'funny'...
so i waltz out, go immediately go across the street and put in a prescrip for T3's and have to wait an hour as it's opening for that London Drugs... every senior citizen in town is their filling their prescrips. every minute as the face freezing wore off the throbbing was getting increasingly painful... i could feel my heart beating in my face. so I may have looked agitated... do do do, I'm killing time in store wandering around for an hour and had several people, kids and old ladies look at me all funny and disapproving-like as they walked by...
finally, i get weirded out just enough to go find a mirror to look at myself, and find... my face covered in blood spatter dots and smudges. like i had just devoured a live pigeon. the end.
- props. lol.rabbit
- haha, people are too polite in the ukmonospaced
- scarabin-2
i found that if you get tired of taking vicodin every day for the pain you can take them all at once
- don't listen to scarabinbklyndroobeki
- ...if you don't want to live a good life.
FTFYrabbit - But i love you WISDOM BROTHER!!!!
FO LIFE.rabbit - show me how its donepockets
- LOL love you too rabbitbklyndroobeki
- rabbit0
3-4 days later was in no pain, 1 week later eating most foods. 2 weeks later, what wisdom tooth removal? :))
so happy i got it done. dont put off guys.
- rabbit0
@bklyndroobeki my WISDOM TOOTH BROTHA FO' LIFE how you travellin bruh!??
- Ben990
Got 3 tooth removal in my life and 2 of them were wisdom tooth. got them removed 2 or 3 years ago. Seriously it went very well, not really painful.
Now i will have my first root canal treatment wednesday...
- drgs0
Never had them and am not going to have
- detritus0
When I had my one removed last year, the operation went well enough, as too the recovery.
About 2½ months later though, I felt this weird sharp projection sticking out from the inside of my gum, toward the tongue.
Over the course of a couple of days it became more prominent and worrying, apparently growing. The morning before I was getting concerned enough to go get it looked at, I awoke and scanned the area with my tongue, at which point it evidently loosed itself.
Turns out it was a tooth shard that had obviously come away and embedded itself in the interior, during the procedure.
It didn't hurt, but I was quite horrified/impressed by the idea of this small sharp piece of me traveling 7mm or so through the side of my gums to work its way out.
- stoplying0
I got paid to have mine removed as part of a drug study at the U of Penn. I woke up midway through the procedure with a doctor swinging my head back and forth with a vice grip on one of my teeth and saw shards of my other teeth on a tray in front of me with me asking "Can I have those?"
$450 that paid my rent for the month. Painkillers were placebos though so that sucked.