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I’m going to be getting one of my wisdom teeth removed in the near future and I’m a bit nervous…I’ve never done anything like this before…
Does anyone have any advice to offer? Is this a difficult procedure? How common are complications? How many days of work should I expect to miss? Is it true that I won’t be able to eat solid food the next day? What type of anesthesia is recommended?
Any advice would be helpful…..thank you!Why aren’t you asking your dentist these questions?
The Wolf
Why would you ask a poishete dentist when you can get the opinion of so many experts on everything here in the CR….you get the world’s best eitzah at zero cost from those who aren’t afraid to opine on subjects they know nothing about and do so with great passion and without equivocation.
Wolf: Everyone knows the real experts are in the CR.
Why aren’t you asking your dentist these questions?
The impression I got was that goldilocks is planning on performing this procedure on him/herself.
Why aren’t you asking your dentist these questions?
Because everyone knows that dentists aren’t infallible, so it makes more sense for her to figure it out for herself.
I had one pulled a few years ago by Dr. Saar Amrami at Kings Highway Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (E. 19th st and Kings Highway in Brooklyn). He told me that due to the tooth being very close to the nerve, the procedure would take longer than normal and the discomfort would linger for a few days. He was on top of the situation and called me twice in the first 24 hours to see how I was doing. I missed 2 days of work because the residual bleeding was “heavy” due to medication that I was taking (which he warned me was going to happen).
Goldilocks: Does anyone have any advice to offer?
“Is this a difficult procedure?”
For your dentist or for you? Recovery is a piece of cake. Well, later you’ll have cake.“How common are complications?”
I don’t know. At my high school, getting wisdom teeth removed was a rite of passage. Classmates came in a day or two later with chipmunk cheeks. By the next week, they looked normal again. I got mine removed too, and all that I remember is being in the office, waking up (maybe), and having puffy cheeks for a few days. Maybe I had to be careful about my food consumption. It was over before I knew it.“How many days of work should I expect to miss? Is it true that I won’t be able to eat solid food the next day? What type of anesthesia is recommended?”
Agree that these are dentists to ask your dentist, or whatever medical practitioner it is that will be performing your procedure.I got general anesthesia, and back in my day, that was the norm.
B’Hatzlacha 🙂
Did anyone get all their wisdom teeth removed in one session?
LB -“I got general anesthesia, and back in my day, that was the norm”
I’m middle aged & I had 2 wisdom teeth removed and it was a local shot.
The other 2 are still there.I totally understand why Goldilocks is asking the CR. Sometimes you want input from laymen, not necessarily from experts. BTW, I might also need some extractions, so it’s good to know which questions I should ask, from both my dentist and my peers. (No, my peers are not dentists.)
Health! Omgosh really? My dentist gave me general anesthesia!
I’m not middle aged. Is it a new thing? Doesn’t it cost way way more to do general anesthesia too? Maybe it’s a health insurance and anesthesiologist thing happening today?
Joseph, what do you mean by getting it all done in one session? What else would they do? Multiple extractions?
Of course it was all at once. Wham bam.
“Did anyone get all their wisdom teeth removed in one session?”
I had all four removed in one session.
It wasn’t that bad. The dentist only needed four assistants to hold me down. It felt like he was sticking red-hot nails into my gums. They told me later that people a block away could hear the screaming.
But I was back at work the next day, and the soreness was gone within a week.
It all depends if the wisdom tooth (or teeth) are impacted.
If it (or they) are not impacted, the procedure should go relatively quickly with a local anesthetic. My daughter had all 4 wisdom teeth extracted (at an office in Yerushalayim) in less than 10 minutes. Other than a bit of discomfort and pain when the anesthetic wore off, she was fine.
If it (or they) are impacted, they extraction takes longer, and may involve being put to sleep by the dentist. I had this done for the two wisdom teeth I had removed back when I was a teenager.
You really need to consult a dentist/oral surgeon, and not depend on the answers of anonymous posters.
lb: From what I have been told, the upper wisdom teeth are easier to remove and sometimes can be extracted using local anesthetic. Generally, the lower ones need heavier anesthetic.
Goldilocks, I am a retired oral and maxillofacial surgeon. I know everyone means well, but any specific answer assumes knowledge of your specific medical and dental status, which nobody here could know. So here’s what I think. You have a lot of very good questions to ask. Your best bet is to arrange to have a consult with the oral surgeon before you have the procedure done. That way he can answer all your questions before the surgery. That will make you a lot more vomfortable. But don’t forget that even with all questions answered, it is still totally normal to be apprehensive. Also, write all your questions down so as not to forget anything. One last thing – if the surgeon refuses the request for such a pre-op consult, then he’s not the right surgeon for you. They applies as well if you feel he is annoyed by the questions, or rushes you through them. You deserve the respect of a surgeon making the effort pre-op to ease your fears and prepare you better for the surgery.
“Why aren’t you asking your dentist these questions?”
“Because everyone knows that dentists aren’t infallible, so it makes more sense for her to figure it out for herself.”
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I had two extractions and they weren’t a big deal, but they weren’t wisdom teeth, and maybe wisdom teeth are different. I did request laughing gas though since I’m very sensitive, and it made me dizzy afterwards.
This assumption that you have to have your wisdom teeth extracted is false, especially if they are not impacted. Hashem did not create us with any vestigial organs! Do your own research. I had mine (impacted) removed as I was unaware of other options at that time. I only had local anesthesia but had only 2 done at a time, first one side then the other. This allows you to eat on the other side while recuperating. The post procedure pain was such that it took a year for me to have the other side done! I assume the poster above who described the screaming was being facetious. If that was true that was gross malpractice. My oral surgeon was suprised that I even felt a pressure when he did the extraction.
Uncle Ben: I had both my lower wisdom teeth removed…..30 years apart. The first was due to an infection. The second developed a cavity under the gum and the tooth was disintegrating due to the cavity. In his professional opinion, the surgeon was concerned that it would develop an abscess and the preferred treatment was to extract.
Iacisrmma – I don’t think that Uncle Ben was referring to a case like yours. Of course, there can be reasons why a wisdom tooth needs to be removed, just like any teeth might need to be removed.
He was referring to the widespread misconception (at least according to him – I don’t know enough to have an opinion) that wisdom teeth automatically have to be removed, or at least if they are impacted.
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