Wisdom Teeth

Here's a fun story, to give hope to some of you whose dentists might have recommended getting your wisdom's pulled and you've yet to do so.

So two weeks ago i went into the dentist. Long story short, I was told that I have cavities on my furthest molars (wisdoms) and those wisdoms will lead to gum disease (independent of the first thing said) and yatta yatta, so the dentist strongly recommended that I get them pulled. So I set up an appointment for a few days ago, went through the entire nervous process and went in for surgical removal at 8AM. No food in me, no water in me, but a hell of a lot of anxiety for sure. lol So i get hooked up to everything except the IV when the Oral Surgeon came in. He asked me a few questions like "Do they hurt"? and "are they bothersome?" I answered no and that's when he wanted to take a look. After about 20 seconds of looking at everything, he told me that I didn't need to have them removed, but the choice was mine. I asked everything I could about rather or not I should have, and he said the surgery wouldn't do anything for me if I took care of them in the long run. So of course I said OK GOOD DAY SIR!

I got extremely lucky there I think. But I still have questions in my mind as to WHY the dentist said what he said, and how it woulda felt if I had them taken out :S Any familiar stories out there?

I still have all my wisdom teeth. I was told a few times early on that they should be removed. I figure why give up the extra chewing capacity if there is no problem :shrug:

Who knows why a Dentist will tell you that if you don't need it to be done. At least the Oral Surgeon was honest about it. Consider it a Christmas miracle :D

Mmmm,

I can recall a good one. For a number of years i went to a dentist near to work
and I was always slightly nervous when i went in and the waiting room was like
a bombsite.

He was (still is i guess) an Iranian and he was short and he had the worst dress
sense ever, also his receptionist dressed like a hooker!!!

He always looked as though he was aiming to "win a bet" with what he
was wearing.... Waaay to short polyester trousers with plastic slip on shoes and white
socks... Also sporting a gem of a comb over reminiscent of Colin Farrell in Horrible Bosses!!!!
Hilarious, but to my point.... he told me on a check up i needed SIX fillings!

Well..... Jacked him in, went with a new dentist and surprise surprise... "your teeth
are fine Mr. Ward, see you in six months was the verdict at my initial visit.

You have to be on your guard, eh? I reckon the Iranian was just after some extra
cash at my mouths expense!!!

Kahana you can bet that I felt really thankful after hearing the good news :D how are your wisdoms holding up? Still a o k?

Speedy geez man that's awful malpractice. Every-time I go into an office, be it dentist, doctor, whatever..I always look deep into everything to be sure I picked a good place. That sounds like a nightmare, the iranian place you were describing! Six filling?? My ass! What a phony. Comically it sounds great, but seriously it sounds awful :p

So far so good. Not so much for a couple of molars though. Root canals suck :p

Good to hear! Ouch on the root canals :( Dentist told me to take extra care of those far molars. Unfortunately I have some cavities on my two top ones, but they're small and are gonna be taken care of on the 2nd!

I have to get mine out eventually. I have a huge hole in the back of one that is decaying more and more. I've only got 3 total, the 4th is nonexistent. I'm also never drinking pop/soda after this year, too many "flossing" cavities.

To my dentist and oral surgeon's surprise, I have six...well, 5 now. I had to have one pulled because it broke, and will probably have to get one more pulled to bring me down to the normal 4, and go from there. If they don't cause any problems I will most likely keep them.

My bottom wisdoms were laying sideways, and pushing forward which could've really caused problems later on(and were already starting to), so I definitely had mine taken out. Also, since they were already in there, I had them take my upper wisdoms too.

I was 26 at the time, and am glad I did it.

I had all 4 of mine removed at 17 due to overcrowding. After that, my teeth straightened out on their own. Best decision ever. :D

All my cousins work at my new dentists office. Always get an honest appointment.

Having all 4 of mine removed on the 9th. One is already causing problems and the other 3 are coming in at a angle and will cause more. When I told my dentist I was 29 he seemed shocked I still had them.

My teeth have always been straight. Never needed anything other than cleanings and the occasional cavity drilling when I was younger. My dentists have always said there should be enough room for my wisdoms so I left them. Then my gums got infected. The dentist said it was probably due to the skin flaps from my wisdom teeth coming in. They gave me some antibiotics and I was fine for a few months. Then another infection, dentist said the wisdom teeth aren't effecting your other teeth but they way they are coming in is causing places and gaps that you can't reach with a toothbrush to become infected. I could really feel the infections in the back of my jaw and it hurt like a mofo. So after 3 infections I said rip those bitches out... all of em. I have no regrets about it.

my wisdoms jacked up the molars next to them....I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled and all 4 molars next to them pulled......all at the same time plus a couple root canals thrown in for good measure. I did conscious sedation and it was awesome.....I'd love to have 5-6 of those little pills to keep around the house. :D

Mine came out when I was 16 or so. Had braces back then and pretty much what Jodi said about "overcrowding" so they had to go.

all 4 of my wisdom teeth were impacted...and all 4 had to be surgically removed.

as for getting the wrong advice from a doctor I would say the worst one was when I was a kid...when I was like 6 or 7 I had a seizure which eventually led to more seizures. I was from a fairly small town, but we had a HUGE hospital...but big does not always mean smart...the top/only neurologist there gave my mom and I all kinds of bogus advice on how to prevent and they over medicated me "with the wrong medicine I might add". Long story short, we found a genius in Texas that worked at a university who fixed me right up.

that same hospital miss diagnosed my grandfather and almost killed him...Rapides Regional Medical Center is a joke...

my wife also had a pretty bad one in Atlanta. She started having some major "female" pains and her schedule was ALL messed up. She started gaining weight in her stomach "she's pretty small to begin with" so at first we thought she was pregnant...everything came back negative. She went to multiple OBGYN's and not one could diagnose what was wrong with her...went to a specialist at UAB hospital in Birmingham "at the recommendation of someone I knew who had similar issues in the past" and the doctor there found a tumor the size of a grapefruit hiding behind our reproductive organs "how do you miss that...?". It was surgically removed 3 months later...

I supposedly only had 2 wisdom teeth with one being pulled. No lower, both are/were upper. Only have one still and it is so far up they said it will never come down. The one that did get pulled was impacted against the back molar and it caused me to lose that tooth as well. Dentist was a small woman and didn't have the strength to pull it out. She ended up calling another guy to come in and he broke it and the molar pulling them out.

I guess she felt bad because she numb me up so bad I didn't feel the back of my skull for 8 hrs let alone my face.

orangeguy sounds like a nightmare. I feel like there are way too many bogus doctors out there getting away with being quacks..i'm glad everything worked out in the end though.

I guess alot of you guys didn't have as much luck as I did :P but hey it's for the better of your health! I'm going to be going back to another guy on the 2nd to be absolutely sure that they don't need to come out; that, and i'm getting a deep clean / molar cavities filled heh

Had 1 pulled. Didn't hurt at all. I drove home 15 minutes after having it pulled.

I drove home after having all 4 pulled. Only thing that sucked was my super numb mouth and all the blood that it was filling up with.

Were you both put to sleep or just numbed? Zinergy it sounds like you had drysocket.. I've heard nothing but painful things about that though.

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Originally Posted by Guerrillakilla13

orangeguy sounds like a nightmare. I feel like there are way too many bogus doctors out there getting away with being quacks..i'm glad everything worked out in the end though.

I guess alot of you guys didn't have as much luck as I did :P but hey it's for the better of your health! I'm going to be going back to another guy on the 2nd to be absolutely sure that they don't need to come out; that, and i'm getting a deep clean / molar cavities filled heh

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how old are you? Because luck tends to run thin on shit like this as you get older. If it were me and I had it to do all over again I would've pulled them when I was younger before they got to be a problem. Chances are they'll get you at some point and they serve no real purpose by being left in.

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Were you both put to sleep or just numbed? Zinergy it sounds like you had drysocket.. I've heard nothing but painful things about that though.

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Numbed. I heard the tooth being cracked as he was pulling it out. He actually had to straddle the chair and brace himself to get better leverage to pull harder and this guy was a big dude. Never felt a thing though.

After 29 years one of my wisdom teeth decided to erupt. When it did, it was in a manner not so conducive to daily eating. After a couple weeks it split in half and caused unbelievable pain. I could not even sleep because of it. I was out of contract at the time so no insurance and I had to make an appt to get it taken out. They made me wait 3+ days for the appt. I was able to sleep an hour or 2 at a time by slathering it with the strongest numbing tooth agent out there. Once it was out though I was like a new person.

It wasn't until years later when I had the rest of my wisdom teeth out. I had gone in and was scheduled for some other non-related oral surgery that they pointed out my other wisdom teeth. Apparently they had all impacted against my 2nd molars and caused decay from trapped material I would never have been able to get to. So they advised for me to remove them as well. So I ended up getting 12 teeth pulled at once.

It was interesting since I happened to be only the second person he ever had to put an IV in. I grinned hard for about 45 minutes as I tried not to jump out of the chair and beat this guy with a blunt object as he stuck me 18 times trying to find a vein.

All I remember after that is waking up in the middle and trying to talk with a mouth full of medal crap. Didn't seen to want to stop me though. They had to up the doage. That happened twice more before the end.

In the end they presented me with a tray of teeth and asked if I wanted them. I told them of course and took the bloody bundle home. I woke up sever days later wondering why I had a horror show on my kitchen counter...

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Originally Posted by Decadence75

After 29 years one of my wisdom teeth decided to erupt. When it did, it was in a manner not so conducive to daily eating. After a couple weeks it split in half and caused unbelievable pain. I could not even sleep because of it. I was out of contract at the time so no insurance and I had to make an appt to get it taken out. They made me wait 3+ days for the appt. I was able to sleep an hour or 2 at a time by slathering it with the strongest numbing tooth agent out there. Once it was out though I was like a new person.

It wasn't until years later when I had the rest of my wisdom teeth out. I had gone in and was scheduled for some other non-related oral surgery that they pointed out my other wisdom teeth. Apparently they had all impacted against my 2nd molars and caused decay from trapped material I would never have been able to get to. So they advised for me to remove them as well. So I ended up getting 12 teeth pulled at once.

It was interesting since I happened to be only the second person he ever had to put an IV in. I grinned hard for about 45 minutes as I tried not to jump out of the chair and beat this guy with a blunt object as he stuck me 18 times trying to find a vein.

All I remember after that is waking up in the middle and trying to talk with a mouth full of medal crap. Didn't seen to want to stop me though. They had to up the doage. That happened twice more before the end.

In the end they presented me with a tray of teeth and asked if I wanted them. I told them of course and took the bloody bundle home. I woke up sever days later wondering why I had a horror show on my kitchen counter...

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sounds kinda like my trip to get mine out....they must've misjudged my dosage because I started coming out of it during the middle of it. It's very foggy but I remember threatening pretty much everyone in the room and them scrambling to get me another pill, more people to hold me down, and calling my wife back to try and calm me down. Good times.

You must live in OH lol.

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Originally Posted by 0rion

sounds kinda like my trip to get mine out....they must've misjudged my dosage because I started coming out of it during the middle of it. It's very foggy but I remember threatening pretty much everyone in the room and them scrambling to get me another pill, more people to hold me down, and calling my wife back to try and calm me down. Good times.

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I don't recall ever being violent with them. Just trying to be chatty while he was trying to get a job done. I think they severely under estimated my body type as everyone does. I tried to tell them but they ignored it.

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Originally Posted by 35th-ANV-SS

You must live in OH lol.

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Nope, actually took place in Marietta GA

I should have quoted it - I was referring to Orion.

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I should have quoted it - I was referring to Orion.

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pretty much every other Saturday here :lol:

Orion i'm 22, but I have such a strong feeling that your right. I'm gonna go in again and they're gonna tell me that they need to come out. Then i'll probably get dry socket, and shit will hit the fan. I shouldn't have taken that feeling for granted when I was told by the Oral Surgeon I was good, cause god knows what i'm gonna experience down the line.

Jon damn dude! Good thing you didn't feel anything..how was recovery?

I don't remember it hurting too bad afterwards. He gave me some pain pills, but honestly I stopped taking them after a few days. I'm not big on that stuff. I was probably 28 or so. I'm pretty pain tolerant though. I've experienced way worse things...broken bones, dislocated shoulder 3x, kidney stone, etc. Kidney stone takes the cake by far.

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how old are you? Because luck tends to run thin on shit like this as you get older. If it were me and I had it to do all over again I would've pulled them when I was younger before they got to be a problem. Chances are they'll get you at some point and they serve no real purpose by being left in.

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I got mine taken out when I was like 20 years old...I remember it because it was the day before my birthday and I felt like death on my birthday...

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Orion i'm 22, but I have such a strong feeling that your right. I'm gonna go in again and they're gonna tell me that they need to come out. Then i'll probably get dry socket, and shit will hit the fan. I shouldn't have taken that feeling for granted when I was told by the Oral Surgeon I was good, cause god knows what i'm gonna experience down the line.

Jon damn dude! Good thing you didn't feel anything..how was recovery?

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I never had drysocket... I don't think. Just had them pulled. I never went to sleep just numbing shots which are by far the worst part of the whole process. I also got gassed just because I wanted to know what it felt like but I was awake for the whole thing. I remember the dentist wrenching on my head hardcore and when he would stop wrenching I would feel like he was wrenching because of the gas. The dentist noticed this and said to me "are you ok", I said "yes" as best I could with a mouth full of fluid and tools, then he looked at the gas machine and said turn up the oxygen.

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Originally Posted by Zinergy

I never had drysocket... I don't think. Just had them pulled. I never went to sleep just numbing shots which are by far the worst part of the whole process. I also got gassed just because I wanted to know what it felt like but I was awake for the whole thing. I remember the dentist wrenching on my head hardcore and when he would stop wrenching I would feel like he was wrenching because of the gas. The dentist noticed this and said to me "are you ok", I said "yes" as best I could with a mouth full of fluid and tools, then he looked at the gas machine and said turn up the oxygen.

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I had them knock my ass out...I told the surgeon that I had issues with having to be over medicated because my mouth would not numb like others. I remember him standing over me saying "3, 2, 1" and BOOM...it was lights out. Next thing I knew I was waking up with 4 teeth gone.

Mine were surgically removed as well. Pretty much as Patrick described... only they had me countdown from 10. I may have made it to 7 and then I was out until the recovery room.

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I don't remember it hurting too bad afterwards. He gave me some pain pills, but honestly I stopped taking them after a few days. I'm not big on that stuff. I was probably 28 or so. I'm pretty pain tolerant though. I've experienced way worse things...broken bones, dislocated shoulder 3x, kidney stone, etc. Kidney stone takes the cake by far.

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My dad had a .45 slug go through his leg/knee. Still says kidney stone was worse.

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My dad had a .45 slug go through his leg/knee. Still says kidney stone was worse.

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my dad "step dad" literally passed 32 stones in one month about a year ago and then he passed about 10 per month after that for 6months...he went to 5 different specialists and not one could tell him why or how it happened. He was passing so many that he was passing stones that most people physically could not pass...the guys at Vanderbilt were stumped too. He still passes one every once in a while...he could instantly tell when he was about to pass one because his back would start hurting and his temperature would go through the roof "his body was reacting to the stone". He would then start chugging fluids and about 10-15mins later he'd pass a stone...the doctors thought he was crazy until he brought them a pill bottle full of stones and they were all shocked.

I know of at least 5 times where he had to have minor surgery and they blasted stones...and that was all within a matter of months. He completely changed his diet, quit dairy products, stopped eating meats...nothing helped it.

Currently he's adapted a vegetarian style diet and he doesn't have them nearly as often...maybe once in a blue moon. To this day they "doctors" still do not know how or why it happened.

That is horrible.