<p>Sedation is awesome though. You don’t remember a damn thing. And it seems like I’m still alive, so evidently getting sedated one time isn’t gonna kill you. Maybe it will in 10 years, but **** it if that’s the case then I should be dead now given all the unhealthy things I’ve done.</p>
<p>edit: If you wanna get sedation and your doctor is ok with it, just do it. You’re not gonna be a lesser person for it.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind being completely knocked out but I am really reluctant to accept the idea of being high during the procedure. Being awake but not feeling <em>right</em> is something I am REALLY averse to, there is a reason why I don’t drink or do any drugs. I am not comparing the two on a moral basis, so don’t misunderstand, but I just completely hate the idea of my perceptions being altered and not being fully in control of myself. I know it shouldn’t be a big deal for a medical procedure, but it is anyway. That is part of the reason why I wanted to see the surgeon, so I could be totally out, but the surgeon’s schedule is impractical. So that just leaves the dentist, and all he has to offer me is local anesthetic and gas.</p>
<p>I may just try and get over it, I dunno. It may be the only way to minimize the trauma.</p>
<p>My dentist told me that I was one of the rare few who had only one wisdom tooth, and a small one at that.</p>
<p>They injected my gums with some numbing medication 3 times, drilled the tooth to chip it down so that it could be extracted. So I was awake the whole time, and didn’t feel a thing except smelling a slight burning incense.</p>
<p>After that, the hole bled for a bout a day or 2, then healed up quite fast. Didn’t need any narcotics or painkillers.</p>
<p>Does your dentist have a lot of experience with wisdom teeth removal? I ask because you normally need specialization in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS). Check his credentials to see if he’s a member of any OMS groups.</p>
<p>This is something he routinely does if the extraction is nonsurgical, which he says my top teeth are-- they are both erupted, only one is even impacted and it is very slight. He said he had no problem doing my upper teeth himself as they are nonsurgical or referring me to a surgeon if I prefer to be knocked out entirely, but the lower teeth he said he would not remove and would have to insist I see a surgeon. He wants me to wait and see how they grow in before we do anything about those anyway, though. My top teeth are the only ones that have even fully developed. D: </p>
<p>I am leaning towards having the dentist just do it for conveniences sake. I have to take the option that makes missing school least likely-- the surgeon can do it on a Monday morning, I have Mondays off, and then we could hope I’m well enough to go without painkillers to drive to school on Tuesday OR my dentist can do it on a friday afternoon and give me the weekend to get better. Plus I have been prescribed vicodin NOW for the pain and I can’t take it because of school, and I’m not sure if I can do another month of this to wait for the surgeon.</p>
<p>WAAAAAAH I AM SCARED. 
What if it makes a gross noise. I bet it will. I wonder if my boyfriend can hold my hand.</p>
<p>(I took the vicodin this evening, don’t judge me. XD)</p>
<p>why can’t you take vicodin because of school? it’s not like it makes you mentally handicapped. all it did for me was get rid of physical pain.</p>
<p>Anyway yeah, it sounds like he’d be good for those upper teeth. Just ask him to give you enough novocaine that you wouldn’t feel a bullet tearing through your mouth or something.</p>
<p>It would likely make me drowsy and I have an hour commute to school at 8am. I am having a hard time staying alert for it as it is and I am only taking motrin and tylenol.</p>
<p>I guess I will call tomorrow and see if we can do it this friday or the next one. Thank you for listening to me whine. :P</p>
<p>I had mine taken out over spring break. I would suggest waiting for a time when you have several days to do nothing but lounge about, in case you don’t respond to painkillers well.</p>
<p>I won’t have any time off at all until the holidays next Fall. And I really don’t want bleeding gums over Thanksgiving or Christmas. D:</p>
<p>Worst comes to worst I may be able to make my dad drive me to school as long as I am coherent enough to walk around downtown to get to class, which I would think would be okay.</p>
<p>Get them out ASAP, don’t let them destroy your good teeth.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>I had all four out at once, from a man I can only describe as Dr. Kavorkian.</p>
<p>It was two weeks of hell, basically, even though I was taking pain killers and what not.</p>
<p>Plus, I still think I have an exposed nerve in one of my very very back teeth/ wherever they took one of the wisdom teeth out. There is a zinging sensation whenever I chew back there. However, three different dentists in three different places have found nothing, x-rays have found nothing, yet I’m stuck with this annoyance from getting my wisdom teeth out a year and a half ago.</p>
<p>So in a word, horrible.</p>
<p>Although I guess if you need it done, you need it done. I can’t say what would have happened if I didn’t get them out; I’m not a dentist.</p>
<p>Like I said, for me, the sound WAS the worst part. But since I couldn’t feel pain, I was OK with it. I couldn’t talk for a little while right after the procedure, though. I had to write stuff down. :P</p>
<p>Did you have the laughing gas? From what I’ve read some people heard nasty sounds but they were so out of it that it sounded far away and it didn’t faze them. I am still unsure about how I feel about having the gas, I am calling tomorrow to make my appointment and I guess I’ll just do whatever my dentist things is wise.</p>
<p>The sound is going to gross me out but I feel like I am most concerned about blood running down my throat or something gross happening like that. And I am a bit more concerned about pain than I was yesterday.</p>
<p>I had mine at a local hospital - hurts on the day and only for 2 hours after that. That evening I was having spicy pork rib soup.</p>
<p>Monday at noon. I can have pain killers Monday but by midday Tuesday I have to go off them if I am going to drive to school on Wednesday, which I must. So hopefully that will be sufficient.</p>
<p>drive fast so you can take the pills</p>
<p>… How does driving fast help?</p>
<p>so you can get to school so you can take your painkillers without having to drive or operate heavy machinery afterward.</p>
<p>Son had all four pulled in August of last year. Make sure you ice both sides on and off for the following 24 hours. This is essential to reducing the swelling. You can use bags of frozen corn or peas because they kind of mold to the shape of the area. </p>
<p>The surgeon recommended a simple combination of novacaine and gas rather than general anesthesia because the recuperation tends to be quicker. Son used this method and all went well. He took the prescribed pain medication for the first 24 hours. After that, motrin was strong enough. By the third day, you should feel a lot better. </p>
<p>It’s very important not to drink from a straw for a while after the surgery–you don’t want to dislodge the clots. </p>
<p>You’ll be fine. Make sure you have those bags of frozen peas or corn on hand to ice the area.
Be vigilant with the follow-up care instructions. The surgeon will probably give you written post-surgery instructions.</p>
<p>I’m only at school about two hours, I’d end up stranded on campus that way. I am just going to have to hope for a speedy recovery. My dentist seemed confident that it would be no big deal, so until it isn’t that is what I am going to hope for. I did get Tuesday off of school just in case.</p>