Wisdom Teeth

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
I had a cyst cut out of my lip in the chair under a local. It felt wierd sitting back watching the surgeon do their work, but the $ difference was too much to ignore.

I've had lots of teeth pulled, but no wisdoms. You'll be fine in the chair...surely?
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
Weird - I had a top one removed about 6 months ago and it took 5-10 minutes in the chair and apart from a little pressure I barely noticed.

It was the bottom one for me they mentioned were more difficult to remove.... so strange that I got completely opposite info to slowmick...
Yeah, I thought the bottom ones were potentially a more sensitive a procedure due to being close to that nerve running through the jaw.

@slowmick - She is going to decide once she gets my xray this afternoon. She is a 'let's-get-it-done' kinda person I think but I haven't been massively impressed with a filling experience with her last year.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
@creaky old info now but I had mine done in hospital. All four in one go. Mine were up and down like @Haakon hopes for a reliable Alfa. Maybe 3 months of discomfort because the maxio... was booked well ahead and fitting in with work and other availabilities.

Best advice if you go this way is lots of ice packs. Change while still cold and swelling and pain will be minimised. Usual soft food for days etc and salt water rinses. Lots of salt water rinses. I had one little lump of swelling and didn't need antibiotics. Used pain killers for a couple of days only. Bestest thing a week later with the teeth gone and realising the background unpleasantness rhat was endured previously had disappeared. Another workmate had his done in the chair and was swollen and in pain for at least two weeks. Another in chair had a tooth left due to difficulties during the removal.

If I had to do it again I would do the same. Go to sleep, get them all out and wake up betterer. And get a surgeon with small hands!
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
My top two came out with no problems in the chair, less than 30min each side, and back to normal life within a week. The bottom 2 are another story, I need to have them surgically removed because of the way they've grown on their side but never had them done.

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bear the bear

Is a real bear
Had my right top removed in the chair because it was decayed.
Of course, it broke having a little Indian woman swinging from my jaw trying to get it out. Then out came the scalpel...
Still was painless, just more complicated and I was warned ahead of time that it might happen.
 

Tubbsy

Packin' a small bird
Staff member
As long as the dentist administers the painkillers well there should be no problem. I have a prosthetic tooth that involved drilling into my jaw to install a screw fitting for the tooth that was made to fit after.

Quite an involved procedure but didn’t feel a thing. It’s more the noises (drills and whimpering) and the vibration that’s not pleasant.

I don’t think the expense and side effects of going under are worth it.
 

nzhumpy

Googlemeister who likes bikes and scandal
It was the noise that got me as well, the grinding and crunching just sound terrible.
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
Well the dentist has put them in the ‘too hard basket’ due to proximity to a nerve so I have a referral to a specialist. I presume that will mean $, general anaesthetic, more $ and a blissful experience that I sleep through with no pain after 3 days …. That’s how it works hey?
 

cokeonspecialtwodollars

Fartes of Portingale
Well the dentist has put them in the ‘too hard basket’ due to proximity to a nerve so I have a referral to a specialist. I presume that will mean $, general anaesthetic, more $ and a blissful experience that I sleep through with no pain after 3 days …. That’s how it works hey?
I would assume that you get to pick the shade of turquoise for their next Yeti.
 

Nambra

Definitely should have gone to specsavers
Doesn't need to be a general anaesthetic @creaky, I had all four impacted wisdom teeth pulled with twilight sedation about 20 years ago - you're kept on the edge of consciousness by the anaesthetist. I remember having a moment of lucidity during the procedure where it felt like the surgeon was going at me with a pair of multigrips as I felt my head being flung from side to side, but they must have given me a quick squirt of juice and I was out again in an instant.

Post-procedure, you can expect some pain. The severity will probably depend on how much they have to bash around inside your mouth getting your teeth out. Take whatever they offer when you wake up and lie about how much it hurts on the 1-10 scale when they ask, particularly if Fentanyl is available - who doesn't want medical grade heroin! You will have open sockets in your jaws where the teeth were, which can get infected, and will probably be told to rinse with warm salty water after eating for a while to help keep things sterile while you're healing. One of my sockets got infected and it felt like a bad toothache. Fortunately I had follow-up appointment with the surgeon that I managed to bring forward because I was in pain, and he packed the hole with some sort of clove-poultice. Cloves apparently have antiseptic properties and within a day or so, the pain was gone.

Dental work these days is nowhere near as bad as it was 40 years ago; better methods and local anaesthetics make it a lot more bearable. Like @cammas, I've also had a crown installed (largely due to something a dickhead dentist did many years earlier, destroying a tooth) and was a simple and relatively painless procedure.
 

slowmick

38-39"
Yeah, I thought the bottom ones were potentially a more sensitive a procedure due to being close to that nerve running through the jaw.

@slowmick - She is going to decide once she gets my xray this afternoon. She is a 'let's-get-it-done' kinda person I think but I haven't been massively impressed with a filling experience with her last year.
sorry - sounds like I got the top and bottom around the wrong way. sounds like you're off to see the surgeon. That should make your pocket a couple of grand lighter. Shit time of year for things like that.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
Grave dig with a classic @The Duckmeister quote.

Is there any topic unrelated to bikes that doesn't have a RB thread? (is the question mark OK here @The Duckmeister ?)

Sounds like I've got to get my wisdom teeth out, well minimum the two on the RHS as I'm getting infections in the gum between them.

Local anaesthetic in the dentists chair doesn't sound like much fun to me, watching someone grinding and yanking at my teeth for two hours.
General anaesthetic at the hospital sounds much more civilised but no doubt costs would triple (hopefully private health insurance would assist).

Any words of wisdom (sorry, I had to)?
I had one done In the chair. It was the only one givong me geief. Couldnt justify the general cost for one tooth. Worst decision ever. It didn't take long, but the whole experience and the sensations were as bad as tou think they are. I still remember it 10 years later.

When the others needed to come out, I opted for the GA. Even though you only think you need two out, just get them all out, that way you can justify the GA and you'll never have to worry about it again. Each tooth extraction isn't too expensive. It's Ll the other costs; theatre, anaesthetist, etc.

Plus if you're lucky, they'll give you a week's perscription of endone.

Goodluck!
 

Labcanary

One potato, two potato, click
I had repeat infections where my lower wisdom teeth were trying to break through.
Due to all four being impacted, the dentist sent me off to get them all removed under GA. It was done privately, but I didn't have private cover. I think it cost me around $2k about 11 years ago.
The anesthetist was completely bonkers, but he did a great job. He gave me a script for mersyndol, which I took in conjunction with ibuprofen (staggered timing so I always had some kind of pain relief at all times)
Post operative swelling was the worst by day 4. After that it calmed down. I ate a lot of ice cream, over cooked pasta, soup and tinned fruits.

My husband ate a kebab on day five after getting all 4 wisdom teeth out. He took about 2 hours to eat it because his jaw was so swollen. He really wanted that kebab!
 

clockworked

Like an orange
Great to see people discussing their oral health. There is also some impressively bad advice in here, but it is amongst some fairly accurate stuff too i guess.

Remember- anxiety is strongly linked to pain. It helps to not take every opportunity to tell the goriest version of your story to people that are yet to undergo treatment.

If anyone in tassie needs work, come see me! Might as well help fund my next yeti ebike instead of paying some golf fan...
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Great to see people discussing their oral health. There is also some impressively bad advice in here, but it is amongst some fairly accurate stuff too i guess.

Remember- anxiety is strongly linked to pain. It helps to not take every opportunity to tell the goriest version of your story to people that are yet to undergo treatment.

If anyone in tassie needs work, come see me! Might as well help fund my next yeti ebike instead of paying some golf fan...
VW make bikes now?
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
Doesn't need to be a general anaesthetic @creaky, I had all four impacted wisdom teeth pulled with twilight sedation about 20 years ago - you're kept on the edge of consciousness by the anaesthetist. I remember having a moment of lucidity during the procedure where it felt like the surgeon was going at me with a pair of multigrips as I felt my head being flung from side to side, but they must have given me a quick squirt of juice and I was out again in an instant.

Post-procedure, you can expect some pain. The severity will probably depend on how much they have to bash around inside your mouth getting your teeth out. Take whatever they offer when you wake up and lie about how much it hurts on the 1-10 scale when they ask, particularly if Fentanyl is available - who doesn't want medical grade heroin! You will have open sockets in your jaws where the teeth were, which can get infected, and will probably be told to rinse with warm salty water after eating for a while to help keep things sterile while you're healing. One of my sockets got infected and it felt like a bad toothache. Fortunately I had follow-up appointment with the surgeon that I managed to bring forward because I was in pain, and he packed the hole with some sort of clove-poultice. Cloves apparently have antiseptic properties and within a day or so, the pain was gone.

Dental work these days is nowhere near as bad as it was 40 years ago; better methods and local anaesthetics make it a lot more bearable. Like @cammas, I've also had a crown installed (largely due to something a dickhead dentist did many years earlier, destroying a tooth) and was a simple and relatively painless procedure.
Some good advice there, thanks.
The ‘holes’ do worry me - my natural thought is that they would be more prone to infection than with the manly teeth in there but presumably not, in the longer term anyway.
 

Labcanary

One potato, two potato, click
Doesn't need to be a general anaesthetic @creaky, I had all four impacted wisdom teeth pulled with twilight sedation about 20 years ago - you're kept on the edge of consciousness by the anaesthetist. I remember having a moment of lucidity during the procedure where it felt like the surgeon was going at me with a pair of multigrips as I felt my head being flung from side to side, but they must have given me a quick squirt of juice and I was out again in an instant.

Post-procedure, you can expect some pain. The severity will probably depend on how much they have to bash around inside your mouth getting your teeth out. Take whatever they offer when you wake up and lie about how much it hurts on the 1-10 scale when they ask, particularly if Fentanyl is available - who doesn't want medical grade heroin! You will have open sockets in your jaws where the teeth were, which can get infected, and will probably be told to rinse with warm salty water after eating for a while to help keep things sterile while you're healing. One of my sockets got infected and it felt like a bad toothache. Fortunately I had follow-up appointment with the surgeon that I managed to bring forward because I was in pain, and he packed the hole with some sort of clove-poultice. Cloves apparently have antiseptic properties and within a day or so, the pain was gone.

Dental work these days is nowhere near as bad as it was 40 years ago; better methods and local anaesthetics make it a lot more bearable. Like @cammas, I've also had a crown installed (largely due to something a dickhead dentist did many years earlier, destroying a tooth) and was a simple and relatively painless procedure.
Salt water rinse is a good idea considering you aren't supposed to brush your teeth for a couple of days post procedure.
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
Even though you only think you need two out, just get them all out, that way you can justify the GA and you'll never have to worry about it again.
That’s what I reckon too. I assume that any respectable surgeon will want to maximise their income and take all four anyway.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
Remember- anxiety is strongly linked to pain. It helps to not take every opportunity to tell the goriest version of your story to people that are yet to undergo treatment.
Nah. Gotta tell the worst possoble story every time. We all had to hear them. This is the circle of life.
 
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