Wisdom teeth

[c-hill5]

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I'm a dentist as well. I agree with Qwerty completely. I lean towards extraction (not in every situation) especially if I see the patient at an early age (18-25). Not only can they cause problems themselves (ie cavities, infections, etc) they can also sometimes damage the adjacent teeth depending on the postion that they are in. On numerous occassions, patients have come in with full-blown cavities on their second molars mostly due to the malposotion of the third molars and the tension that they are placing on the back side of the seconds. Also, upon eruption, if there is insufficient room in the arch, they can cause crowding of the rest of the teeth, most noticably, the anteriors or front ones.

If it has been recommended to have them extracted, do it now while the teeth aren't bothering you. Nothing worse than a patient coming in to the office a year or 2 after I recommended that they be taken out and in severe pain. The younger you are the shorter the recovery time.

[lmmadic]

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had mine taken out when i was 16 didn`t have any trouble with it really, i came ho;e fro; the hospital and ate solid food right away. it did remain big holes for a long time and food kept getting stuck in it that kinda sucked

[Yao]

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Poor Pickles...have a pill. Or a dozen.

Hope you're better in a day or two man. I had one taken out, and the only nasty thing about it was the tampon that brushed the region just above my throat, causing me to hurl every 5 mins for the time I needed to have the thing in. I might get at least one other removed, it sometimes cuts into my cheeck a little bit...

[DancingQueen]

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I am sure you will be fine in a day or two...Hope you feel better soon!

[picklemonkey]

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the top of my mouth is fine... the bottom is a different story. I have stitches all over both sides of the bottom of my mouth, it hurts to open/chew, and it tastes like my cat took a bloody piss in my mouth. the percocet is helping, but not as much as I'd like it to.

[pilot]

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you get all sorts of "goodies" to make it less painful too....

[qwerty2222]

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i'm glad you are fine after the surgery, the first days are the worst, but you'll feel better after, you'll see

[picklemonkey]

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I haven't hurt this bad since the first day. ohmygodmakeitstop

[DancingQueen]

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maybe go see if they can perscribe something stronger....

[Gazza]

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I had all my wisdom teeth pulled out a couple of years ago. It was actually quite painless. The only problem was that I had to avoid the al-key-hall for a bloody week. One of the worst weeks of my life.

[glacius]

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worst part was not being able to eat for 2 weeks, for me anyway

[srbbnd]

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I had all my wisdom teeth taken out when I was 18. It was actually a pretty good time. I woke up not remembering anything with blood dripping down my mouth and my mom making me a shake. I also got a whole bunch of goodies to take like hydrocodine and vicodine. I felt no pain, the only thing that sucked was having to sleep in a chair with my head up for two days and not being able to eat hard food for two days. Have fun.

[miss_catness]

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i had all 4 of mine done at the same time too- it wasn't that bad...

if u have lots of pain try having a popsicle or sucking on ice, i found that really helped me out- well that and lots of painkillers

[picklemonkey]

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i'm out of pain killers. called the oral surgeon and told them i'm in a lot of pain. asked if my ear hurt. yes. asked if my mouth tasted funky. yes. told me i had a dry socket, but the surgeon was out so I had to wait until tomorrow to see him.

fuckthisshitmyteethhurtandihavenopills

[Garrick]

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dry socket blows... resort to vodka?