Wisdom Teeth

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
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.
The holes close over. You'll also get a little hooked syringe to gently rinse out any foot that you happen to get stuck in there while it's healing.
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
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...
Hold up, I’m confused now. I always thought that @Squidfayce was the dentist (for obvious reasons).

Next thing you know this thread will be filled with gross rotten wisdom tooth extraction photos from google images …
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
That’s what I reckon too. I assume that any respectable surgeon will want to maximise their income and take all four anyway.
They schedule all their opps on a single day, rent a theatre and do about 15-20 over the course of the day. It's absurd.
 

Nambra

Definitely should have gone to specsavers
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.
Your gums heal over quickly and it's like you never had teeth there to begin with. Infected, decaying teeth are much less preferable as left untreated it can lead to nasty and potentially dangerous complications like sepsis. The upside to removal is that you won't have breath that can knock a pig off a shit cart at a hundred paces any more!
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
Wisdom teeth are childs play (not really), I had GA for four out at one time 32 years ago. I had extractions and a palate expander and braces over 4 years as a teenager so got pretty used to dental work. My old man called me Mr Gaspo (I rekcon only over 50's will understand that one) for the week after the wisdoms, head was completely pear shaped.

More recently my canine tooth died and became fused to my skull and I had it out in the chair. The worst bit was the small angle grinder to cut the head off the tooth, the smell of that much tooth being cut through (we've all had a whiff with a filling) is something else and it took everything in me not to vomit. 45 minutes of using an ultra sonic cutter to get it loose enough to crack off, first crack hurt like hell so they chucked a bit more juice in and out it came. I had to bite down for an hour on a gauze to stem the bleeding, it got a bit yucky so had to go back within a week for a clean up and it all turned out ok.

It's amazing how the mouth heals though, months later I had to have a gum graft which they cut from the underside of my palate which left a decent hole, but I can't even tell it was done now.
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
My old man went to public health dentist in qld as a pensioner recently and had similar fusing and a curved root. They didn't have the tool my periodontist has so it was done with a drill and various chisels. Not sure he does extractions without the $5k+ implant.
 

indica

Serial flasher
Local anaesthetic in the dentists chair doesn't sound like much fun to me,
I had a general (not really) in the chair. Vague recollection of someone pulling one out with pliers or a multigrip.
All four gone, it was okay.
 

Miguel76

Likes Bikes
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 both upper wisdom teeth pulled in the chair under local. Things didn’t go as well as the dentist planned as both teeth really didn’t want to come out. I ended up having my relatively small dentist straddle my chest and heave/yank for all she was worth. When the tooth finally let go (approx 5min later) there was a massive crack, at least it felt/sounded massive to me, and it popped right out.

While it wasn’t a straight forward extraction it was pain free and better than a general anaesthetic.
 

creaky

XMAS Plumper
So the specialist has recommended that the RHS bottom and top get removed, and under general anaesthetic due to the alignment of the bottom one. That's fine by me, rather than watching someone tug and grind away.

Cost is $540/tooth removed + circa $800 anaesthetist + hospital costs for day surgery (which from memory with my leg surgery a couple of years ago was fully or almost fully covered by my private health).

The LHS top one is on a funny sideways angle towards the cheek but the LHS bottom one is not even erupted (out of the gum).

Gotta decide whether to get all 4 out - all in, once and for all you know - or only the RHS ones. $1k difference but then I don't want to be going through this again on a few years, but then maybe that will never be required.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
Yep, all out. Palexia tabs. Not sure what they are and haven’t had any yet but expect they may be required once my mouth is no longer numb …
Weak opioid. Not as fun. But probably a responsible approach to prescription. Feel good knowing that's the last problem you'll ever have with the wisdoms
 
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