Get a variety to prevent you from going crazy:
- Those alternative-meal protein shakes (Ensure, Special K, or whatever)
- Soup. I blended those chunky meat vegetable soups and that gives you meat in liquid form.
- Jello, pudding
- Ice cream
- Applesauce
- Mashed potatoes and gravy. I got my dad to buy me like 8 containers of those
Y'all are crazy. One at a time, no alternative. There's no rush.
And pay for the anesthesia, x-rays, and prescriptions four times? No thanks.
So even with just the one tooth out I'm going to be bent over backwards and spanked silly for a few days? Lovely.
Spaced out months if not years apart? Though I suppose that's one way of looking at it.
Y'all are crazy. One at a time, no alternative. There's no rush.
I never use pain killers, just deal with the blood and numbness for a day. Then it's fine for the most part.
Get one removed from your lower jaw. The agony of that will make you realize why you do one at a time.
(Uppers are easy, but still messy.)
Get your dentist's opinion. They'll x-ray you and analyze it from there.
But know that if you need to get them out, the younger the better. The longer you wait the worse the recovery will be, which if you read this thread it's not really a trivial event. Teenagers bounce right back while 20s are a little harder and 30s even harder.
So even with just the one tooth out I'm going to be bent over backwards and spanked silly for a few days? Lovely.
Thread had me worried so I went and counted: 28 teeth. I'm 26yrs old, does this mean my wisdom teeth are just going to come in late in life? I've never had anything removed in the past.
My impacted (very badly impacted, it was horizontal and angled downwards) one took about 45 minutes to be removed, and towards the end I had to ask for more anesthetic because I could feel the saw a bit. So 4 teeth... yeah, you don't want to be there holding your mouth open and closing your eyes for that long.Bump!
I just had my surgery appointed for next Wednesday. I'm not looking forward to this. Gonna start buying loads of Ice Cream.
I'm gonna have all 4 removed at once. My 2 lower ones are impactedMy doctor convinced me that I should go completely under because of those 2 impacted ones, she told me Local Anesthetic could be hell as the surgery can get a bit longer than usual. I dunno if she just wanted to charge me for anesthesia, lol but it worked. I don't want to know anything about the surgery.
Looking forward for the free week, at least! I hope my recovery isn't troublesome and that I don't look too much like a chipmunk.
Bump!
I just had my surgery appointed for next Wednesday. I'm not looking forward to this. Gonna start buying loads of Ice Cream.
I'm gonna have all 4 removed at once. My 2 lower ones are impactedMy doctor convinced me that I should go completely under because of those 2 impacted ones, she told me Local Anesthetic could be hell as the surgery can get a bit longer than usual. I dunno if she just wanted to charge me for anesthesia, lol but it worked. I don't want to know anything about the surgery.
Looking forward for the free week, at least! I hope my recovery isn't troublesome and that I don't look too much like a chipmunk.
I had all three of mine (Genetics are weird.) removed a few years ago. Decided to be a huge baby and go under anesthesia for the procedure, which was probably a bigger risk than either the surgery itself or having them come in crooked. Apparently I have a Wolverine-like healing factor, because I was eating completely normally in about three days, and had no evidence of getting them removed except for some slight tenderness after about two weeks. No dry sockets, so little pain that I think I took one dose of hydrocodone total, no holes big enough for food to get caught in... I was crazy lucky.
Having my face all swollen also made a funny Facebook profile picture.
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General anesthesia is the best. I get it whenever I can.
General anesthesia is the best. I get it whenever I can.
I gots a question about wisdom teeth removal: I've had a wisdom tooth for about a year and a half or so now, and I don't mind it much. It's made one of my upper teeth a bit crooked, but it doesn't sound like it's worth the procedure. Anyway, if I were to go, would they just take out the one tooth, or would they also remove my other wisdom teeth from underneath my gums? Or is that up to me?
Never really discussed removal much with my dentist.