<p>Any tips from those who have already been through it? I'm pretty nervous.</p>
<p>Hey, I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out. I did it during spring break so that I didnt miss any school. I was put under anesthesia, but when I woke up I was confused, and in pain. After awhile my cheeks swelled up. </p>
<p>My advice is that since you can’t eat any hard foods, don’t eat too much ice cream. You’ll gain weight, because thats all I eat for like a week straight. Try some soups or yogurts. Be ready to sit around watching a lot of tv. Also be ready to SLEEP. The medications that they give you make you drowsy. You’ll be in pain but at least you can sleep through it ;)</p>
<p>I’ve had mine out twice (two once and the other two the second time.) I think the pain is over exagerrated. I was uncomfortable but felt no pain both during and after the procedure. I was eating the day after. You should be fine just make sure the Dr gives meds. The first time he gave me ibuprophen and the second time he gave vicodin. For some reason I feel that the ibuprophen was more effective. Good luck.</p>
<p>Bro omg getting mine out was awesome no joke.</p>
<p>My parents brought me whatever I wanted and I sat around and watched tv for 3 days.</p>
<p>I just got 2 wisdom teeth out recently. It was really painful for a few hours but then it stopped for me. However, this won’t be the case if you get dry socket (make sure you follow instructions). Afterwards my cheeks got really puffy for a few days (I couldn’t chew without biting on them so I just swallowed my food). I recommend choosing the sedation option for the operation - you won’t remember a thing and the operation will be done.</p>
<p>A parent here - follow instructions about icing and taking pain killer, sit up rather than lying down when sleeping, try not to be too active first few days (no visitors), do not use straws to sip drinks (sucking is not good for healing), the most important part is to rinse with salt water after each meal for few weeks (otherwise you could have infection later on). Both of my kids had all 4 out at once and they recovered nicely.</p>
<p>I once had to get 4 adult teeth out for braces. I didn’t eat anything solid for about two weeks.<br>
Now I’m really scared for my wisdom teeth because apparently since my jaw is too small if I wait too long (which my family has the horrible tendency of doing) the teeth will grow into my nerve. :(</p>
<p>Let me give you the other side to getting your wisdom teeth out. I had a first hand experience of my sister’s wisdom teeth removal. She got all 4 out…or maybe just the bottom two…anywho, and she received anesthesia. She was severely drowsy, as expected, for the next few days, not expected. She couldn’t eat. She vomited anything that went down, including water. She couldn’t walk because she would vomit. When she wanted to go to the bathroom she couldn’t even hold herself up. It was pure hell for about four days. I’m not saying this will happen to you, but, hey, it could. </p>
<p>Luckily, my wisdom teeth are looking good. I have braces that are fixing my spaces so that should open some more room for them to come in. Lots of members of my family have their wisdom teeth. I’m hoping I won’t have to have them taken out because if I had to experience having teeth yanked out…I would legit go into shock. They’d have to know me out for a week. I can’t stand the though of it.</p>
<p>To stop the bleeding, soak two tea bags and put them on each side of your mouth instead of the gauze. I used black tea bags, but green tea bags work too; it’s the tannin that helps the blood clot.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the experience can range from easy with little pain, to complicated and very painful. Nobody here is going to be able to tell you which. It will depend greatly on what condition and what position the teeth are in. </p>
<p>Are they already in with crowding, starting to come in, or positioned so they won’t come in on their own? That will make a big difference - if they’re already in, they just pull them out. If they’re not going to come in, they have cut them out, and may have to shatter them and pick the pieces out (that’s what they did with me, because they were fusing to the jaw bone - they can’t always get all the fragments, so the litle bits work their way through your gums over time). The sooner it is done, the less likely to run into such complications.</p>
<p>Warm salt-water washes are good - they promote healing. For after care, they will probably suggest ibuprophen, but could also give tylenol with codein or something else more powerful. If should dull the pain, but probably won’t make it completely go away - that’s OK. But if it doesn’t reduce the pain enough speak up - and if it makes you feel strange, speak up then too, they may need to reduce your dosage.</p>
<p>Make sure someone will stay with you the first 24 hours or so, just in case. You may sleep that entire time, but someone should be there to make sure there are no complications.</p>
<p>My surgery experience was horrible! I was allergic to the anesthesia so I woke up in the hospital. So scary!
But the recovery time wasn’t that bad. I didn’t need to take any pain meds.</p>