<p>My wisdom teeth are beginning to grow out. It doesn't hurt much now, although if a chew for long periods of time the gums around them start to ache. should i pull them out now or wait to see if they come out and mess up my teeth even more before having them pulled out? and how painful is the removal process? i've heard horror stories about swollen cheeks for 2 weeks,etc.</p>
<p>a) Your dentist will determine if they need to come out. You should try to see a dentist; you’ll need an appointment before you see a surgeon anyways.</p>
<p>b) Your mileage will vary. I too had heard horror stories of wisdom teeth removal. However, I had no problem with my surgery. I was in 0 pain (well, I also had my tongue clipped, which is was kind of painful, but you probably won’t have that). I felt nothing. I even had hot wings the day after and felt no pain. I took no pain meds but did keep up a Motrin regime as per the surgeon’s suggestion. I had no stitches and the mouth wash didn’t even burn. In short, it was a breeze. The worst part of my experience was the gauze in my mouth - augh! The other thing is that when you wake up, you can’t swallow. It seems like you have to drool until the novel idea hits you to lay your head back.</p>
<p>What applicannot said.</p>
<p>My wisdom teeth removal was ok. The actual surgery was perfect - one second they were putting an IV into my arm, the next I was waking up, face totally numb. The pain wasn’t severe ever, just a slight aching pain. It was hard to open my mouth for like 8 hours and it sucked having a liquid diet for a few days. After a few days the pain mostly went away, but I noticed that both my lower sockets would occasionally have dull, aching/throbbing pain. My mouth also had a foul taste. I went back to the surgeon and he put in some medicated dressings with oil of cloves that tasted bad but got rid of the other taste as well as the pain. Turns out I had dry socket, which can be very painful but it wasn’t for me.</p>
<p>Overall recovery time was like… a week and a half or so. The sockets take a lot longer to fully heal, but it only takes a week or two for the pain to go away and to be able to eat anything. I was pleased in the end… it woulda been nice to not have dry socket but it wasn’t that bad and my surgeon was excellent.</p>
<p>I did take percocets for the pain; they’re invaluable.</p>
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<p>I took my pain meds once. Was not bad at all.</p>
<p>You should go to a dentist and see if he thinks they should be taken out. If you wait too long, they could mess up your teeth, and that can be expensive to fix (and difficult, depending on how old you are).</p>
<p>My experience wasn’t horrible. I was awake during the procedure. I couldn’t feel anything. The SOUND was horrible, and still makes me shudder when I think of it, but I couldn’t feel anything.</p>
<p>I was swollen for about a week. The dentist (who was also my surgeon) had ordered me to put ice by my cheeks multiple times a day, and that was a bit of a pain in the neck, but I eventually fell into a routine that worked. I did feel a bit of pain in the week afterwards, but I probably wouldn’t have if I had taken the Vicodin he had prescribed me (I’m not good with swallowing pills, so I just dealt with the pain). I actually liked the no-solid-food thing - it gave me an excuse to have my favorite things for a few days (mashed potatoes, milkshakes, pudding, tapioca…)</p>
<p>When I went in to get the sutures taken out, it literally took only a few minutes. No biggie.</p>
<p>Don’t be a sissy, only sissies get sedated. If you’re a man, you will let them stick needles into your gum and numb you before they pry the teeth out. If you have an impacted tooth, they’ll probably cut open your gum and slice the tooth in two before they pull out the pieces. I didn’t feel any pain, just the needles in my gum before and a really annoying soreness in my jaw after.</p>
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<p>It’s not that bad, I had to get surgery on half of my face (non-cosmetic) and broke my jaw in 6 different areas and went back to school. Wisdom teeth, the next day I showed up for practice. It’s nothing. They give you drugs.</p>
<p>I just read today that the longer they wait to come out, the worse it is because the teeth fuse to the bone. </p>
<p>My dentist left it up to me if they would come out, because them growing in is unpleasant but they aren’t impacted, which means it is up to my mother. My entire face is throbbing in pain and the teeth keep cutting into my cheeks but since its not ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY that they come out my mom won’t pay for it and I don’t have the money. It’s awesome.</p>
<p>I had all 4 of my bony-impacted wisdom teeth removed at once. I refused to go under general anesthesia, and Versed (what they use for “twilight anesthesia”) gives me a paradoxical reaction – I become extremely tachycardic (over 190 bmp) yet my blood pressure drops to around 50/35. Nitrous was not an option because I have a reactive airway. Lastly, they offered Phentanyl, but I am allergic to opiates and opiate-derivatives, so that was out. </p>
<p>I had to have all 4 removed with just the local anesthetic, and let me tell you, it was brutal. The first issue was that the surgeon did not wait until I was completely numb, so I literally felt him slice my gums with the scalpel and begin to drill into my jaw bone. I was screaming in pain. This was repeated 4 more times, and I had a total of 26 injections of local anesthetic (looking back, I’m surprised my heart didn’t stop from all the lidocaine). </p>
<p>Recovery: since I am allergic to opiates, I could only take Motrin. The pain was so severe that I was in tears for over a week. I went into the hospital and they had to give me Phenergan (an antiemetic) to sedate me enough so that I could sleep. HORRIFYING.</p>
<p>^ Maybe you should get an opinion from a different dentist. If your teeth are cutting into your cheeks and your entire face is “throbbing in pain,” that sounds like something that shouldn’t be left up to your mom. And insurance should cover it. They won’t cover being completely put under, but that’s kind of a luxury anyway. They should pay for most of the procedure, though.</p>
<p>I got all 4 pulled out. After bout 2 weeks and a half I could eat normally again. First couple days my cheeks were sore and I was bleeding but its normal. It doesnt even heard, I feel great that I finally got em pulled out XD</p>
<p>I was able to eat normally after five days, and it only took that long because of my tongue. I’m only offering this as a counter to some of the horrible experiences. You never know what you are going to get. I may have had a particularly good surgeon and/or particularly easy teeth.</p>
<p>"^ Maybe you should get an opinion from a different dentist. If your teeth are cutting into your cheeks and your entire face is “throbbing in pain,” that sounds like something that shouldn’t be left up to your mom. And insurance should cover it. They won’t cover being completely put under, but that’s kind of a luxury anyway. They should pay for most of the procedure, though. "</p>
<p>I don’t have insurance at all, so nothing is covered and it is up to my mom whether or not she will pay for it since I cannot afford it myself.</p>
<p>But I did go to the dentist yesterday, given that the throbbing pain is a recent development, and as it turns out one of the teeth IS impacted (and sharp and cutting me), so my mom has agreed to let me have two of them out. But my choices are to wait a month (the week before finals-- and my teeth would have to come out on a Monday, and no pain meds the next day since id have to drive to school) and see the surgeon to be put completely under-- meanwhile I am continuing to get all infected in the mouth from my teeth creating open wounds in my cheeks, OR I can have them out at the dentist with nothing but novocaine-- no gas. My dentist says since they are both erupted it is a non-surgical procedure and there is no reason to see a surgeon, but I’ve never even gotten a filling so I’m not sure how I feel about having teeth yanked out with nothing but novocaine. He offered gas but I won’t do it. So now I don’t know what I want to do. I have a decision to make.</p>
<p>In the meantime I can’t eat ANYTHING without it hurting except lukewarm mushyness, because not only is there some serious toothache going on but the cuts from the jagged edge of the tooth caused a gum infection. Yummy.</p>
<p>Emaheevul07, I would just do it under novocaine (btw, I am pretty sure it’s something like articaine, which is very good, and not novocaine). I went to my dentist in Europe this summer (I had to get a feeling) and she told me that gas and sedation are only used for people who have phobias, and aren’t necessary, because they aren’t good for your health</p>
<p>Semantics. 
I was attempting to sound more intelligent than “that numby stuff” but apparently only just made it. lol</p>
<p>I will have to call my dentist and see what he thinks. I have a fairly high pain tolerance but I’ve never even had a toothache before this so this is all new, I don’t know how much pain to anticipate.</p>