Wisdom Teeth

Had to have one removed a few years ago no insurance so I was awake while they did it they just numbd it I could feel the dentist cracking it as the nurse held my shoulders haha

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This was over forty years ago, in the Southwest. The Double Standard was still very much practiced then. This was a small hospital, too, so probably they didn't get many dental type procedures. I ignored the nurse's comments.

Mine never developed, just like my balls, I can push them back from whence they came. That said, people I know that had them removed did not have a good experience, so, I'm grateful not to have had the experience.

I never had wisdom teeth to begin with.

I still have my wisdom teeth and I hope I can keep them. ;-)

Otherwise I might lose my wisdom, too? ;-)

My wisdom teeth were removed 3 years ago, over the winter break in between senior year of college semesters. The recovery took quite some time, however I don't recall too much pain. The most frustrating part was feeling like my jaw/mouth was locked and having trouble eating/chewing food. I remember waking up after the anesthesia wore off to an empty room. Realizing the procedure must've been finished, and that the room was empty, my still drugged up brain figured everything was all set and I was ready to go home, so I began to walk out and as I entered the hallway I was probably walking like a drunk person.. I approached the lobby and said "Ok mom I'm ready to go home!!" And a nurse rushed over and was like whoa whoa whoa get back in there I have to make sure you're alright first! Not the funniest of wisdom stories haha some of them on youtube are just hilarious!!

I only had one - and it was in, but pushing against the tooth next to it. It had to go, so it did - with a local only. It really wasn't bad as there was no digging in the gums or breaking the tooth up.

I was 23 when I had two wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic. I had stitches, at first the pain was bearable with tablets but as the swelling went down the stitches seemed to pull and pull..by the time they were taken out after 5 days I hadn't slept properly for 3..worse than childbirth for me!!

I forget the age but I do remember the tech's having a hard time finding the vein, and constantly readjusting my gasmask, gag, and restraints (Sadly only arms; but I got a heavy blanket too)

All that figiting of equipment got me pretty wet, and I still worry to this day if I left a mark on the blanket or chair.

Yes when I was 22 I was asleep for the procedure but when I woke up it was horrible

I was 21; I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth and 1 had erupted through the side of my gum. I was sedated so I don't remember anything except waking up with a mouthful of gauze. I was lucky in that I didn't have much pain or swelling. I did have to go back to the oral surgeon about a week later to have stitches removed. One thing I remember was that when the surgeon came in to check on me, as dopey as I was, I stuck out my hand for a handshake and he sort of laughed & shook my hand.

I've had mine removed, I've gone with others to get theirs removed, and I work as an assistant at an oral surgeon's office.

I don't know anyone who has had their wisdom teeth removed, just a lot of other teeth.

I did have both my upper canine baby teeth removed because the adult teeth were coming in too high and they hadn't come out yet. The dentist managed to hit a nerve when he injection the local anaesthetic and it felt like I had inhaled a lightning bolt. I distinctly recall my eyes watering as he used pliers with a lot of force.

He told me that 'that is why we have ears, so that they can catch the tears when we cry'. This may have been an attempt at calming me but it really didn't work.

I had mine removed when I was 13. All I remember is that I ended up with a dry socket, which was the most painful experience of my life thus far.

I had 3 removed , still have one at the bottom left .

All 3 were removed on sepparate occaisions due to decay , all within past 10 years . I had them all removed in the chair with only injected numbing .

First two weren't so bad , third one upper teeth took two people holding my head and serious pulling I heard crack I my head as it came loose .

My jaw was clamped open so wide I had jaw pain for a long time after .

I was sedated when I had my wisdom teeth out. I was maybe 16.

I remember laying back on the reclined dental chair, and the nurse telling me I was going to be given gas. She brought out a rubber mask that fits over the nose only, and fit it around my head. She also put a device on my finger to read my pulse. I remember her telling me that I was going to be given nitrous, and oxygen after the procedure. This made me immediately hard, since I had a fetish for anesthesia and oxygen masks. My pulse must have shot way up, because the nurse was reading my pulse and said to me "try to calm down".

I remember breathing the gas through my nose, and that I had a throbbing erection in my jeans, that I immediately tried to cover with my hand (the one that didn't have the pulse reader on it). The feeling of the gas was kind of similar to the high after smoking marijuana, and (being familiar with weed) I remember thinking "oh shit I'm stoned". I was very self conscious about my erection, but laid back and kept breathing the gas. The nurse or maybe the doctor came in and asked if I was doing okay.

After a minute or so of getting high on the gas, they told me they were going to put me under. The doctor (a guy) had to grab my wrist and gently pull my hand off my erection. I have no doubt that he knew what I was trying to protect. They started an IV in my hand. I remember several attempts to find a vein in the back of my hand, but don't remember the needle actually going in.

The next thing I remember was waking up, and slowly standing and walking out in the waiting room where my dad was waiting to take me home. The sudden change in time was completely disorienting.

This was a surprise to me when I was in my teens and that is that I never had any wisdom teeth.

Wisdom teeth are NOT fun to have extracted. Had one Dry Socket and it was a real pain to deal with.

Dry socket usually happens if you smoke after extraction (not assuming you have x just a warning to others to avoid ) . I've heard it's awful, don't envy you.

Dry socket usually happens if you smoke after extraction (not assuming you have x just a warning to others to avoid ) . I've heard it's awful, don't envy you.

"Dry socket" in an infection and the healing cells have not gotten in to heal the wound.

There is nothing "dry" about it. Of course, smoking and filling your mouth will all that smoke and contaminants is an adverse environment for healing.

Ahh thank you for the information.

I guess I was given the wrong info , 'I dentist told me not to smoke in case I hit dry socket. I don't smoke anyway so wasn't really relevant info. It was a while ago.

Apologies for giving out incorrect medical information.

(on fetish site where people including me make a mockery of the medical profession regularly ?)

My oral surgeon also warned me about using a drinking straw after wisdom tooth extraction. He said do nothing that emulates a "sucking type' action after surgery. This was after the warning about smoking. Got the dry socket anyway.

I had to go into the oral surg's office everyday. He pulled out the packing, irrigated the hole with Cepacol, then repacked the hole with a cotton packing that was soaked in a cinnamon tasting, dark brown liquid. He told me to also irrigate the packed hole after eating any meal. After a week of this, I was told the socket was beginning to close from it's inside and to just do gentle irrigation for a couple weeks, at home, after every meal. It took about 3 months before the hole was fully closed.

This seems to be a really big interest of mine even before it happened to me; I've used this as the hook for writing stories, and seek out other stories on the subject, despite most of them being pretty similar.

There's something about going to a "dentist" but having so much more happen than usual. All the preparation builds serious tension before drifting off...

Of course, the pain afterwards wasn't so interesting.

I have had two removed.

The bottom ones grow horizontally and one had to be taken out when I was 17. It had to be cut in three by an oral surgeon. I don't remember much pain; just a stiff jaw for two weeks, because of the strain that had been put on it during the procedure.

One at the top was taken out five years later. That didn't hurt much either - the dentist simply said during a cleaning, 'hmmm, maybe it'd be better if we took this one out now!' Sedated that part of my mouth, started pulling, and just as I thought 'hmm, she's putting quite some force into it', she just picked the tooth out of my mouth like a piece of popcorn from a bucket.

The other ones can stay in as they keep the rest of my teeth straight.

. . . . Sedated that part of my mouth, started pulling, and just as I thought 'hmm, she's putting quite some force into it', she just picked the tooth out of my mouth like a piece of popcorn from a bucket.

The other ones can stay in as they keep the rest of my teeth straight.

Your dentist evidently had a very good technique, because extracting teeth is NOT a matter of pulling, it is a matter of loosening the tooth in the socket and then, as you said, lifting it out.

Your second point is an "old wives tale" with no basis in reality. Wisdom teeth neither keep your other teeth straight or cause them to get crooked and crowded. Changes in bony remodeling of the jaws over the years/decades causes that.

Your dentist evidently had a very good technique, because extracting teeth is NOT a matter of pulling...

Yes, you're right, used the wrong word there. It's more of a rocking it to and fro with those forceps.

Your second point is an "old wives tale" with no basis in reality. Wisdom teeth neither keep your other teeth straight or cause them to get crooked and crowded.

I learn something new every day! 😃 That is what my oral surgeon told me as a reason why the other wisdom teeth weren't too necessary to be removed, as long as they won't get infected. He could have been wrong.

Wisdom teeth that are impacted but not compromising other structures can be left as they are.

My mouth is so big that all 4 of my wisdom teeth have plenty of room and don’t cause me any problems. ??

My mouth is so big that all 4 of my wisdom teeth have plenty of room and don’t cause me any problems. ??

You do realize that the more evolutionarily advanced people do NOT ever have wisdom teeth even form in their mouths, don't you? You know, like the old world monkeys have 32 teeth and the new world monkeys have 36 teeth. The more advanced humans have only 28 teeth--two molars in each quadrant instead of three.

More molars = LOWER on the evolutionary scale.

28 tooth master race checking in.