Wisdom tooth

[Deehjay]

try having one in your neck, growing through a bone, and having to have your neck cut open, and the bone chopped into three parts and the middle bit taken away, along with a load of ducts from your neck.

then your wound rupturing.

THAT hurts!

whiny baby

Ok. I admit it. Yours sounds painful. Very painful. How did that occur? O.o

 

["andy"]

wheres the resident dentist ? i just remembered that i still don't have any wisdom teeth. the last time i went to dentists about 8 years ago I'm sure she x rayed me and said ''they will be through soon''

 

[Natwee]

Ok. I admit it. Yours sounds painful. Very painful. How did that occur? O.o

which bit??

 

[mollymoo]

wheres the resident dentist ? i just remembered that i still don't have any wisdom teeth. the last time i went to dentists about 8 years ago I'm sure she x rayed me and said ''they will be through soon''

They will be through but sideways and you will cry like a baby and grow an abscess on your neck and in your bone and then zombies will eat your brains. ................ true

 

[Curio]

Had mine pulled, along with 3 root canals, in a marathon 7 hour session in the chair. However, I was drugged up on Triazolam and spent the whole time as happy as a pig in muck. As I was being driven home I started to come around and had the best trip (pun very much intended) ever - street lamps and telephone poles seemed to reach into the car and warp into my head. At home, I went to the bathroom and apparently tried to climb out of the bathroom window through the window blinds.

No pain, swelling or bleeding at all though

 

[Natwee]

They will be through but sideways and you will cry like a baby and grow an abscess on your neck and in your bone and then zombies will eat your brains. ................ true

 

[Pestilence]

General wisdom tooth removal is a piece of ****.

A few twists, tugs and pop... out it comes.

The day after can be harsh once the swelling has settled in overnight, but other than that it isn't worth the horror stories other may tell you.

 

[Kreeeee]

All mine are growing horizontal, I welcome them, what is up with the people on here, I thought I was communicating with real men.

They would have destroyed themselves and 4 other teeth. I'm not an idiot so I had them removed.

 

[Pestilence]

They would have destroyed themselves and 4 other teeth. I'm not an idiot so I had them removed.

Ouch! If teeth are growing the wrong way it can be pretty horrific. A friend of mine had one central that was growing upwards, eventually on the verge of breaching his nasal cavity. That was one nasty character!

Luckily, mine have always gone the right way, albeit skewed with the need for braces and wisdom removal due to the "usual" lack of jaw space.

I do still have the ragged remains of a rear-set batch of braces on my upper jaw which have simply never been removed. They decayed quite quickly, with the bar splitting and sticking out to such a degree I had to twist and break it in multiple places. No dentist in over ten years has seen fit to remove the "posts" or do anything about it, which leaves me quite perplexed. Seems like when I die I'm destined to have a skull with metal posts behind each of my upper teeth!

 

[Destination]

I have 4 wisdom teeth, the last of which is almost through now.
They bottom ones swelled up badly and hurt a lot.
Under the 'nice' regulations you can't just pull a wisdom tooth out anymore. There has to be a medical reason to do so.

The bottom ones swelled up badly and hurt a lot.


There's your reason, repeated infection known as pericoronitis. Also if you are paying a dentist you can do what you like as long as both agree. I've never seen a thing from NICE regarding leaving them alone. Might be best NICE start communicating other than by word of mouth.

 

[Destination]

Ouch! If teeth are growing the wrong way it can be pretty horrific. A friend of mine had one central that was growing upwards, eventually on the verge of breaching his nasal cavity. That was one nasty character!

Luckily, mine have always gone the right way, albeit skewed with the need for braces and wisdom removal due to the "usual" lack of jaw space.

I do still have the ragged remains of a rear-set batch of braces on my upper jaw which have simply never been removed. They decayed quite quickly, with the bar splitting and sticking out to such a degree I had to twist and break it in multiple places. No dentist in over ten years has seen fit to remove the "posts" or do anything about it, which leaves me quite perplexed. Seems like when I die I'm destined to have a skull with metal posts behind each of my upper teeth!

Show me a picture of this, this seems utterly strange, I can't quite comprehend what they have left behind. The treating orthodontist didn't remove all the bracketing when finished?
You sure it isn't a permanent retainer?

 

[Cosimo]

I’ve had mine done at the dentists which was a bit of a botch job and hospital. Oh what fun it was.

 

[Crowort]

I had my two top ones done. Getting them out was easy for me but I'm sure it depends on a lot of things. The one on the right had messed up the next tooth so I had to have both out. I had no pain at all, I carefully followed their advice to 'leave it alone', the clot that forms needs to stay put for it not to be painful. No spiting, rinsing mouth, smoking, drinking with straws until at least the next day. The salt water rinses for about a week. It was all explained in a pack with gauge they gave me.

 

[One More Solo]

I had my two bottom ones out in separate ops, one was fine but the other got infected and was agony for a week.

 

[Participant]

Also I can open my mouth nice and wide so getting the pliers in was easy.

And not just the pliers!

 

[Destination]

I had my two top ones done. Getting them out was easy for me but I'm sure it depends on a lot of things. The one on the right had messed up the next tooth so I had to have both out. I had no pain at all, I carefully followed their advice to 'leave it alone', the clot that forms needs to stay put for it not to be painful. No spiting, rinsing mouth, smoking, drinking with straws until at least the next day. The salt water rinses for about a week. It was all explained in a pack with gauge they gave me.

Sounds about right.
However, uppers tend to be much easier than the lowers, even if they are harder to see and access. Uppers tend to be more icecreamconed shaped, lowers are pretty much any size shape and position.
Lowers range from straightforward, to complex in a specialist hospital surgeon still won't touch them.

Following the instructions is most certainly the best thing to do.

 

[joxang]

How old are you guys with wisdom teeth problems? I'm 24 and mine are yet to even start coming out or cause any problems.

 

[fobose]

My dentist would not do both of mine, she refereed me to a clinic in Colchester. After the consultation with them they decided to only remove one

I had to go back on a second occasion to have my wisdom tooth removed, no real pain from it afterwards. The huge hole in my mouth was annoying though as food would get trapped in it lol.