Had my two wisdom teeth removed today - JohnDoe8865's Blog

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Had my two wisdom teeth removed today

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 04:40 PM.

So @ 2pm today (EST) I went to the dentist to get my bottom two wisdom teeth cut out. I went in, filled out the necessary forms, and waited to be called back.

I was called back fairly quickly and given an X-Ray of my jaws. While I was waiting for that, I was given something for pain - Helicon I think? I don't know, but it didn't help. I waited another 15 minutes or more and then the dentist came in with his assistant (she was cute). The dentist proceeded to shoot my gums up with several shots of numbing agent and I waited again for 5 or so minutes.

As I was in the chair, almost getting bored really, the dentist comes ina nd goes to work on me. He prys my mouth open and starts pulling my bottom right wisdom tooth with what felt like pliers. A lot of pressure and discomfort here, I can't lie. The he gets a scalpel(?) out and starts digging the tooth away from the gum and out from under my other teeth. It was a fairly quick procedure and he was done in literally less than 10 minutes. Then he did the same thing on the other side and we were done! I was up with a mouth full of gauze and walking out to pay my bill.

I did that and then got in my car and drove home although I was told not to. Reason being is because I was 100% in control of myself and I didn't live but 4 blocks away, less than 2 miles.

Well now I'm home and the Novocaine has worn off and I can feel the holes they left in my mouth. I'm tasting blood and I'm not enjoying the gauze everywhere but other than the pain in my lower mouth, I'm very thankful. It was not nearly as bad as I had feared.

I was prescribed Keflex to keep any infections away and given a prescription for Vicodin 5/500. That stuff might as well be a sugar pill to me, so I got some Vicodin 7.5/1000 from a friend who had hernia surgery.

All in all I'm doing a lot better than I thought I would be right now and I'm glad that the wisdom teeth horror stories were not true for me.

Comments

# 1 ghm125 @ Nov 12

still have mine at the age of 41...dentist says they are laying flat and if they are not a prob then no worries,leave em be,guess they" ole if it aint broke" dont take em out