<p>I'm getting them out soon.....kinda scared, not gonna lie. Three are fully in, but the dentist wants them outta there because they are "cramped." They don't bother me! My 4th tooth has not emerged at all, and the dentist would prefer that an oral surgeon take that one out for one reason or another. He said that the other three would be easy for him to do....</p>
<p>However, I don't think my insurance will cover oral surgery. The dentists are arguing back and forth - one says that I should go to an oral surgeon and get them all out at once, and the other says to get 3 out at the office and wait on the 4th one.</p>
<p>Advice?</p>
<p>I'm also scared for the actual procedure haha. I've never had any type of surgery and I'm afraid that I might freak out.</p>
<p>I’ve had an oral surgery in which they also took out my wisdom teeth. Don’t worry about it, it will be fine. It might hurt for maybe 3 or 4 days though</p>
<p>I suggest that you get all four out at once- that’s what I did. It wasn’t bad at all and my mouth didn’t actually really hurt. If you sleep sitting up the first night, it’ll help. I spent the first day vomitting incessantly…but that’s all. </p>
<p>It’ll feel really weird when your mouth is numb, though.</p>
<p>I’ve had a couple teeth pulled out, and some weird tongue surgery when I was in 3rd grade cause my tongue couldn’t touch the roof of my mouth.</p>
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<p>I never realized all the feelings that my upper lip can have. My anesthesia took, like, five hours to wear off and through the whole time I was poking my lip to check if it had any feeling.</p>
<p>I had all four impacted wisdom teeth out a week ago at an oral surgeon. I had local anesthetic on top of twilight anesthetic (awake enough to respond to the surgeon and open your mouth, but you don’t remember any of it. It feels like being put to sleep.) </p>
<p>Personally I recommend oral surgeons over dentists and I recommend getting them all out at once. If insurance wasn’t an issue I would say to just get all four out at the oral surgeon but your next best bet would be to have he dentist do he erupted three and the oral surgeon do the impacted one. Oral surgeons have more advanced and more specific training that will keep them from damaging roots/nerves/sinuses etc. </p>
<p>The procedure wasn’t at all bad. I was worried sick beforehand and was really scared. They put in an Iv and then the surgeon came in and I was out like a light- I don’t even remember them injecting the med into the Iv. You’ll be disoriented and numb when you come out of it. Start taking your prescribed pain meds before the local anesthetic wears off. Swallow as little blood as possible- I swallowed lots and it made me throw up. Have lots of ice pops and mashed potatoes on hand. You’ll be eating normally in about a week. </p>
<p>I’m not going to lie, the first two days stink, but it’s not a miserable-want-to-die kind of stink. More like an uncomfortable and sick of soft foods stink.</p>
<p>My advice to you is that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.</p>
<p>I was told THIRTY YEARS ago that I needed my wisdom teeth out, and I didn’t do it, and there have been no negative consequences.</p>
<p>Sleep on it. You can always do it a year or two from now.</p>
<p>i’m irrationally scared of it too. the only reason why i considered listening to my dentists advice and getting them out was so the young stem cells from them could be preserved 
(they are an awesome source of stem cells). </p>
<p>my fear is one of my motivations for avoiding eating bad things that wouldn’t create a good environment in my mouth. as long as they don’t get infected - which they are liable to be at one point or another in this day and age with what people eat - then i think you will likely be okay (unless you have severe crowding issues). so that’s what you have to watch out for.</p>
<p>there is actually considerable controversy about the widespread recommendation of wisdom tooth extraction, and what’s behind it. you can see the wikipida page for details [url=<a href=“Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia”>Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia]Wisdom</a> tooth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<a href=“avoid%20the%20part%20about%20dry%20sockets%20if%20you%20don’t%20wanna%20be%20even%20more%20scared%20than%20you%20need%20to%20be”>/url</a>.</p>
<p>I’m going to have to get mine out eventually. I have 3/4 of mine breaking through - and its becoming a pain to eat things that get little pieces stuck in your teeth back there like peanuts. I’m pretty nervous too, I’ve never had any real surgery or anything except when I was little. One of my friends who just got his out said he had to watch this video showing him about what happens if it gets infected and how you could possibly die and stuff. Not fun.</p>
<p>Had them removed, got a bottle of painkillers, didn’t have any pain WITHOUT the painkillers. End result → Leftover bottle of painkillers and no wisdom teeth.</p>
<p>I had mine out like 7 months ago. I was 14- almost fifteen. Since I was so young I had no pain. I had ibuprofen for pain and that was it. I was eating solid food after two days. The only real annoyance was the extreme (for me) bleeding the first night.</p>
<p>OMG my are crooked and still have to take them out before "they makes other teeth crooked… It’s sticking out but it like going sideways.</p>
<p>If you’re asleep, how do they keep your mouth open? Drool? Tounge?</p>
<p>There is a lot of info on another thread. I don’t know how to link it but it’s in the parents forum. You can do a search in that forum for wisdom teeth and it should come up. </p>
<p>My D’s dentist said that the longer you wait the more impacted they become. it’s better to do it as soon as you can. Most people that have problems are ones that wait until they hurt, usually in their 20’s. We got a 2nd opinion though, just to make sure. Definately look at the other thread.</p>
<p>To clarify, when I said “problems” I just meant that it may take a couple more days to fully recover.</p>
<p>They usually keep your mouth open by placing a rubber… thing (I’m not quite sure what it’s called…) in your mouth that props it open. Then, I think they place one of those suction devices that you always see at the dentist to suction up all the blood/drool. </p>
<p>It really isn’t that bad. I literally walked in there to get 8 teeth extracted (4 wisdom and 4 other teeth for braces) and they put an IV into my arm (I think they put you on laughing gas before they put the IV in, so it’s not like you really feel anything of consequence), injected some anesthetic into it, and I was out in about 2 minutes.</p>
<p>It’s a pretty weird feeling when you first come around. Your mouth is still kind of numb, but you know that there’s blood and stuff in there and the surgeon advised me to put a bunch of gauze in my mouth. It was wonderful. My experience was probably worse because I had to get those 4 extra teeth taken out, but I was able to eat within about 5 hours and I never had to take the pain meds that they prescribed to me. I practically slept it all away. </p>
<p>The eating comes pretty slowly though. I was on a diet of soup and Chinese congee for about 2 or 3 days 
Good nutrition there. The hardest part is probably cleaning your teeth. It just gets so complicated when you have to avoid this area, and avoid doing this, and blah blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s more of a nuisance than something you should actually be scared of. I found it partially enjoyable because, for once in my teenage life, my parents did pretty much anything I asked them to do (make me food, etc, etc…). :D</p>
<p>OH. I completely forgot to say. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOUR SURGEON TELLS YOU. The last thing you want is dry socket. Ick.</p>
<p>Ugh the taste of blood is so gross!!!</p>