Comments | discokim: she doesn't post for weeks & then this?

discokim

she doesn't post for weeks & then this?

Apr 25, 2005 12:45

Whenever people would use the term 'dental emergency' I would always get this muddy mental image and spend a lot of time sitting there wondering what exactly constituted one. Now I know. My friendly long-dormant impacted wisdom tooth, content for years to grow sideways visible only on an xray, has decided it must be borne unto the world, now, today ( Read more... )

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karmasuckredux April 25 2005, 16:58:26 UTC

I am totally phobic about dentistry, to the extent that I require weed, valium, and gas just to have a cleaning. That said, the removal of my wisdom teeth was the most pleasant dental experience I have ever had. I was knocked out for the entire procedure, and spent the next two full weeks ripped on percoset. I never felt a thing...

discokim April 25 2005, 17:03:28 UTC

I share your dental phobia & am a big friend o nitrous. I was wondering if they'd do a general anesthetic....2 weeks though? Did it take a full 2 weeks to heal?

karmasuckredux April 25 2005, 17:07:22 UTC

No. The first week was to heal (okay, the first two days), and I scammed additional meds to make the rest of the time recreational.

discokim April 25 2005, 18:57:47 UTC

Good deal. And good planning, on your part.

karmasuckredux April 25 2005, 19:02:52 UTC

I'm kind of smart that way.

hyacinth321 April 25 2005, 17:19:54 UTC

I didn't have anything remotely like what you've described in terms of immediate need for dental surgery due to screaming pain, but I did have a couple of wisdom teeth cut out at some point in my 20's. All I recall were good drugs for a couple of days and then a nasty, disgusting, pus-filled infection about a week later which hurt like hell and required antibiotics and more good drugs. Use the weird thing they give you to clean the vacant spot in your mouth until it heals completely, and don't eat anything for several days -- just live off the Percoset and broth. Good luck. (Hey, as an unrelated aside -- did you have SNOW at your house this weekend?)

discokim April 25 2005, 18:55:10 UTC

No snow. It got chilly and a little windy, but nothing major. Annoyingly un-springlike but not much else.

I'm with you on the birthday party tip. Claire's skating rink party was pretty much a disaster. I'm a party at home devotee now (hard to get away from the obligatory 'party at school' situation, but at least all you really gotta do for that is show up & bring a store-bought cake).

cookiebastard April 25 2005, 17:57:05 UTC

I had a similar one-day it's a toothache, the next-day it's a "rusty screw driven into my skull by a clumsy kid" sort of experience when my wisdom teeth came in. First, while waiting for an appointment with an oral surgeon, I had to spend five days on Tylenol-3, which only cut the pain down to "non-rusty screw" level ( ... )

discokim April 25 2005, 18:57:08 UTC

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I guess the dumbest thing is that I thought I could actually plan the timing of my impending wisdom tooth crisis. The silliness is off the charts.

cookiebastard April 25 2005, 20:05:07 UTC

The whole wisdom tooth thing is grossly unfair and proof that if there is a god, that god does not love us. There you are, holding down a job/ being in school/ going to bars, grown-up stuff, whatever and then, suddenly, you're teething again.

deadmoviestar April 25 2005, 18:24:28 UTC

I'm with karmasuck - the removal of my wisdom teeth was a downright pleasant experience, drugged as I was. I remember the feeling of one of my teeth actually leaving my jaw forever and thinking, "Cool." And this was 1979, when the drugs and tools were probably a tad more barbaric than they are today.

Had the same experience with a root canal - a total breeze. Both of them far easier and less painful than an average periodontic cleaning...