<p>Bzzzt</p>
<p>CONGRATS!!! Thanks for the great job you and the other firsties did providing the example for our plebes!</p>
<p>I HIGHLY suggest not letting the dentist touch your teeth!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>They're all liers!!! I was in 7th grade when my mom said it wouldn't hurt, and the doctor extracted ALL 4 wisdom teeth in the same operation without laughing gas! I was wide awake having anxiety attacks, don't trust them!!! AHHHHH! Its the worst pain you can think of!!!</p>
<p>PS: I am only 14 so I don't know anything incase you still want to do it...</p>
<p>bzzzt,</p>
<p>With all you have to do, it sounds just like normal life for a cadet - except maybe for the manicure. :D Sleep well!</p>
<p>Congratulations for your incredible accomplishment and the best of everything to you in the future!</p>
<p>Most wisdom teeth these days are done under a general. You go under, you wake up, you remember nothing.</p>
<p>It's not something I want to do again, but it's nice to not have to worry about it, and it really wasn't that bad.</p>
<p>Well when all 4 of mine were pulled, I was WIDE awake and remember the whole operation still. I can still feel the grasp of my teeth and the twisting and pull the big mean dentist did! It is worst then the movies! Make SURE you tell them to put you under! Don't let them start the operation awake.</p>
<p>Sawhney,</p>
<p>It's very unusual for a 7th grader to need all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. They usually don't begin to cause any problems until the late teens. Also, there must have been a specific reason to remove them without the anesthesia as it would be so painful for an adult, let alone a child.</p>
<p>Well I was a huge 7th grader (I am 8th now almost 9th), I had body of probably a late teen honestly. I probably know why I was awake, the doctor told me to take this pill an hour before the appointment which would like make me sleepy which I did, we got there, then he said he had to cancel the appointment for some reason so we came back about 6 hours later and the pill probably wore off...It was soooo painful!!! It hurts thinking about it...</p>
<p>Maybe is varies from region to region, but today many docs remove wisdom teeth earlier if they believe that they will become impacted or cause crowding (the ideal age is often given as 14-20yrs). They prefer not to wait for the patient to have problems before they remove them. Younger patients have 2 benefits: 1) they heal a lot faster, 2) the roots have not fully developed. This reduces the risk of nerve damage in the lower jaw, and sinus damage in the upper jaw. All in all a much simpler op with fewer complications and less down time. Because there is a price differential, docs do offer patients the option of having IV sedation or local (at least ours did). After having a tumor removed from his jaw under local a few years ago, my son had no hesitation in choosing IV sedation when he had his wisdom teeth extracted. I had mine out under local- it was not too bad.</p>
<p>Ann,</p>
<p>I thought I only came here to learn about college admissions. ;) I think I'll make an appointment to get my youngest son's wisdom teeth removed right after finals.</p>
<p>doc said i could wait a few years. so i will.</p>
<p>Halelueh! Praise the lord!!! Praise the lord!!! Lol :P</p>
<p>Some MAJOR advice to your youngest son momoftwins, tell the doctor to put your kid FULLY under so he doesn't feel a thing or you'll break his neck and feed his brain to an ostrich! I am serious, it is nothing I'd ever want to feel again...</p>
<p>Sawhney,
out of curiosity, did you post under the name 'armyfreak' a few months back?</p>
<p>SAWHEY - don't be such a wuss. pain is temporary.</p>
<p>MOT - your mileage may vary, but it will be interesting to see what your denstist/oral surgeon says. I was surprised by the new trend too.</p>
<p>Sawhney - it sounds as if you were scheduled for oral sedation which may have worn off, but I would be surprised if you did not have local anaesthetic (novocaine shots) in addition to the pills. With local you should not have felt excruitiating pain.</p>
<p>"Sawhney,
out of curiosity, did you post under the name 'armyfreak' a few months back?"
No sir, I did not.</p>
<p>"SAWHEY - don't be such a wuss. pain is temporary."
I bet if you were 13 years old, you just sat down, the nurses are holding your arms down, and the dentist grabs hold of your tooth, one by one, and starts twisting and ripping it out, but you cannot do anything for being held down...Getting 4 wisdom teeth extracted in the same hour wide awake at 13 years old is pretty...DIFFERENT...I couldn't talk for 2 weeks, I could only drink for a week because my face was so big and swallen (as you probably know). But I doubt you were in the same situation, when you are, then you can start talking :)</p>
<p>"Sawhney - it sounds as if you were scheduled for oral sedation which may have worn off, but I would be surprised if you did not have local anaesthetic (novocaine shots) in addition to the pills. With local you should not have felt excruitiating pain."
He didn't give me novocaine, he said he had none or ran out AFTER the operation. My mom and I were soooo bad at the doctor...I had a serious anxiety attack too, I was soaked in sweat everywhere, even my feet, my shirt, my pants, my hair. It was like torture, but its probably 1/1000 that would happen, I was so unlucky.</p>
<p>Sawhney: 14 would be the very low end at which wisdom teeth would be extracted - 13 is really stretching it. Since these teeth would still be well below the gumline, removal involves cutting the gum, pulling out the teeth and then stitching up the gum. You still sticking to your story? If so you may want to publish the name of your oral surgeon.</p>
<p>Are you saying I am lying? I don't know the name but he lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hes a young guy in his 20s, looks about 200 pounds, dark black, short hair. I can ask my mom later. Well you cannot say it is impossible to have your wisdom teeth pulled out in the late 13s...because I did...</p>
<p>I say you're lying.</p>
<p>maybe you should talk to a lawyer to sue for PTSD. it might be lucrative.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the cadets who had wisdom teeth extractions while they were students, my daughter had more than enough "samples" to conduct her tooth decay science fair project at WP Middle School about 8 years ago.</p>