I just had two wisdom teeth removed

[jaysgirl]

I want pics of your chipmunk cheeks!

 

[faZZter]

4 at once here....piece of cake.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

I only had 1 wisdom tooth grow, the other 3 are .... nonexistant I guess.

Anyways, not only did I only have 1 tooth pulled, it was the EASIEST kind to take out. No chipping/cracking/cutting. Just a simple tug and twist or something and it came out.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
i'm gonna stay home and install starcraft broodwar and play for a couple of hours.

play diablo 2 instead

 

[gistech1978]

i went to a new dentist when i moved. she said i needed my wisdom teeth out. previous dentist said i didnt. all four are in and broken the gum line. i have room for them. they dont hurt.
who to trust?
she referred me to an oral surgeon, but i havent gone yet. im skeptical, she also wanted me to come in for a filling when I DONT have a cavity. she said one of molars a 'trap' and could become a cavity. yeah, no sh!t. Im very much an anti-dentite, now. i wasnt until i met this crook.

 

[wizzz]

For those who had their wisdom teeth removed, I got a question.

After the removal of your tooth, did the dentist stitch up the gum area?
If so, after when do you get rid of the stitch?

 

[EKKC]

i have 4 of them and i found them last year. dentist asked me to remove all 4. so i was like ok. then i went there the next appointment and he scared the crap out of me by saying one of them is sitting on a bunch of nerve ending it's likely as in 50% chance that i will lose feeling on my chin for the rest of my life. i was like hold it. now its been a year i think one of the tooth is coming out (they're all empacted and i cant see them). i will be going to another dentist and then if needed get them removed by an oral surgeon.

those who had all 4 removed. can you eat? can you even go to work?

 

[nakedfrog]

I just bled for eight hours or so when I got mine out. No face swelling. Ate Taco Bell the next day. Still have two of the teeth (they had to break the other ones into tiny pieces) in a box in my desk.
Heh, I scanned them since I'd just recently gotten a scanner, left the image pretty big, and put it on my site at the time with a warning that said "My bloody wisdom teeth (you really don't want to see them)" but people kept looking anyway

Originally posted by: wizzz
For those who had their wisdom teeth removed, I got a question.

After the removal of your tooth, did the dentist stitch up the gum area?
If so, after when do you get rid of the stitch?

Pretty sure my doc used the stitching that dissolves.

 

[alien42]

consider yourself lucky. i had a tooth pulled 2 weeks ago and while the doctor was pulling it he realized that the root had a cyst (due to a bad root canal over a year ago). the cyst was more or less a ball at the end of the root which made the tooth very difficult to pull and needless to say i was sore and swollen for about 4 days after that.

 

[Safeway]

It's gonna be bad.