Just had my wisdom teeth removed

[Jimmah]

All 4 gone, one shot, literally 20 mins in the office (from what I was told) and sedated. Cannot describe the weirdness of it all, oh and percocet is fabulous. Slept for 6 hours already, feel great minus the bloody spit.

Had to get them out sice they were giving me migraines (had one right before I went under).

Any tips on what I should do to keep things ok? The dentist didn't say anything extra to my wife and I, no pamphlets or info.

 

[SunnyD]

Don't suck, don't smoke, and no matter how good you feel, don't eat ANYTHING solid for 2 weeks. Trust me, especially on the latter part.

 

[ChaoZ]

20 mins is extremely fast. I was in there for a few hours.

 

[OCGuy]

Dry socket sucks ass.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Yea, my instructions said I could start eating soft foods on the second day... that was a mistake. Stick with liquids for a while.

 

[Quiksilver]

Dry socket sucks ass.

Most certainly does, had 4 wisdom teeth removed and one of the sockets got dry socket. Think it hurts while you recover after having them removed? Take that pain, multiply it a few times and on top of that the pain is radiating and doesn't go away until you have it treated(with mine they stuck this plastic syringe[best way to describe it] thing filled with a listerine/water mixture and jam it down into the socket and spray all the gunk and any infection out then they give you a smaller one and ask you spray the brim of the socket out yourself daily for a week or something like that).

I also have a high pain tolerance, when I had mine removed I did it with novacane while fully awake.

 

[vshah]

i ate whatever starting 2 days after and I was fine.

post chipmunk pics

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Most certainly does, had 4 wisdom teeth removed and one of the sockets got dry socket. Think it hurts while you recover after having them removed? Take that pain, multiply it a few times and on top of that the pain is radiating and doesn't go away until you have it treated(with mine they stuck this plastic syringe[best way to describe it] thing filled with a listerine/water mixture and jam it down into the socket and spray all the gunk and any infection out then they give you a smaller one and ask you spray the brim of the socket out yourself daily for a week or something like that).

I also have a high pain tolerance, when I had mine removed I did it with novacane while fully awake.

The syringe part was oddly not that bad for me relieved a lot of the pain I was in. It was probably periogard that they sprayed in there; spraying listernine directly into the sockets would be a very bad idea afaik.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

i ate whatever starting 2 days after and I was fine.

post chipmunk pics

Just curious, how old were you when you had them removed? I was 26(suposed to be worse older you are), and it took around 2 weeks for me to start feeling better, but I had complications.

 

[Key West]

don't eat ANYTHING solid for 2 weeks. Trust me, especially on the latter part.

What? I took all four out 2 years ago myself. I wasn't an invincible teenager either (26 yo).

By less than 24 hours, swelling had gone. I was crunching down on raw carrots already. Doing that took off my stitchings, but I healed 100% in the next 4-5 days.

The procedure took 30-40 mins. Two of them were very deeply impacted and had to be drilled with many holes to break them in pieces.

They didn't give me no percocet. Just told me to buy advil myself and stfu. I passed out to bed at home, woke up 2 hours later with incredible headache and toothache. Took some advil then I was fine.

My immune system rocks. No solids for 2 weeks? pfft.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I had mine removed at 26, when all four came in fully impacted. Like you, I was only in the chair for 20 minutes. I woke up in the car and immediately asked my wife to pull over so I could ralph from the sedation.

The worst part about the experience for me was the packing. My sockets were really deep, so the oral surgeon stuffed them with antibiotic packing and told me not to remove them for 2 weeks. A week in, they smelled horrid and I had an awful taste in my mouth. To the point where they were almost making me puke. Called the oral surgeon and he removed the packing, all two feet of it, from each socket.

Blech. I'm getting queasy just thinking about it.

 

[vshah]

Just curious, how old were you when you had them removed? I was 26(suposed to be worse older you are), and it took around 2 weeks for me to start feeling better, but I had complications.

i was 16, that might explain it.

 

[vi edit]

I was doing solid(ish) food the next day. But 2-3 times a day I'd used a syringe and warm salt water in a syringe and rinsed out the holes to prevent food from getting caught after meals. As others said, no sucking (drinking straws are things people forget about) and avoid crunchy things and stuff like cottage cheese that has perfectly sized food bits to get stuck in there.

 

[BW86]

i ate whatever starting 2 days after and I was fine

same here - I didn't think it was that bad.

 

[Jimmah]

Found out about 10 mins ago they had to dislocate my jaw to get at the impacted tooth.... explaims why I ban't open my mouth more than a cm.

Dry socket, looked it up and not excited, going to be extra cautious on that one. Cheers lads.