Originally posted by: hemiram
This makes my stomach turn. My wisdom teeth should have been yanked long ago, but I thought "I'll do it later, what's the rush?" Well, when I was older, like in my late 30's, my dentist pipes up and says,"You should have had those extracted a long time ago, you have big roots anyway,and now they are enormous" And then he shows me an xray, and he wasn't kidding! They are huge. He said they are about the biggest ones he has ever seen, and that means PAIN when I do get them yanked.
I was about to go ahead and schedule the right side (the worst ones), then a friend calls me, and tells me his horror story. He and his wife, who's in her 3rd year residency towards being an OB/GYN, set up a great vacation to Aruba (might have been Cancun, can't remember) He's having his wisdom teeth yanked two weeks before, plenty of time to be recovered by the time they go. He has it done, is out during the whole deal. He comes home and he's feeling ok, but it hurts on the left side when he chews, and it doesn't really matter what side he chews on, it just hurts. Not horrible, but it's there. He tells the guy who yanked the teeth and he "checks" him and says all is well, it's just taking a little longer to heal than it should.
So he's on his trip and someone offers him some kind of beef jerky stuff. He starts chewing it, and CRACK! His upper jaw breaks. He said the pain was amazing. Vacation over! They fly back and he goes to another guy, since the first one is on vacation himself and the Xrays show a huge crack in his upper jaw and he has to have surgery to fix it. Afterwards, he's back at the first guy's office, and the he's aplogizing, saying he had no idea, etc. Then he shows my friend the original xrays taken after the teeth were pulled, and there was the crack, plain as hell! After six weeks, he finally felt ok last week, well enough to lay off the pain pills for the first time.
Now the lawyer is getting involved..
