Missing: Three teeth
Feb. 29th, 2008 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziNo reward offered, thank you very much, I just paid a good chunk to have the dental surgeon take them out. One wisdom tooth went a couple years ago as an emergency procedure when the gums got infected, but the rest finally came out this morning. Apparently my teeth are awesome, but my gums suck, and the worst of the decay was between the molars and wisdom teeth. Keep them all now and lose my molars later, or pull the wisdom teeth now and keep (hopefully) everything else later? Well when you put it like that, sign me up.
Much to my surprise, this isn't as bad as I'd expected. ACat drove me in this morning so they could knock me out for about 45 minutes, and then drove me home to veg for the rest of the day. I have the weekend to recover in, but this is a pretty quick recovery. The surgeon gave me prescriptions for a couple of types of heavy painkillers but suggested Aleve if I can manage it, and also a scrip for an anti nausea medication. I got home, took an Aleve, swapped out gauze pads in my mouth every half hour or so for a few hours, and frankly haven't had more than a mild ache in my jaw. Acat, my angel of mercy, went out and got all the meds plus a buttload of smoothies, juice and yogurt for me, and I think I may have just lucked out with the best reaction I could get. (It doesn't hurt that none were impacted, and apparently ACat was told they were all very easy to pull.)
Has anyone else out there had multiple wisdom teeth pulled? Honestly, to hear the stories I was told at work I expected this to be MUCH worse. I'm very pleasantly surprised. (Now watch me get infected and regret all this.... NOOOOOOOOO)
Much to my surprise, this isn't as bad as I'd expected. ACat drove me in this morning so they could knock me out for about 45 minutes, and then drove me home to veg for the rest of the day. I have the weekend to recover in, but this is a pretty quick recovery. The surgeon gave me prescriptions for a couple of types of heavy painkillers but suggested Aleve if I can manage it, and also a scrip for an anti nausea medication. I got home, took an Aleve, swapped out gauze pads in my mouth every half hour or so for a few hours, and frankly haven't had more than a mild ache in my jaw. Acat, my angel of mercy, went out and got all the meds plus a buttload of smoothies, juice and yogurt for me, and I think I may have just lucked out with the best reaction I could get. (It doesn't hurt that none were impacted, and apparently ACat was told they were all very easy to pull.)
Has anyone else out there had multiple wisdom teeth pulled? Honestly, to hear the stories I was told at work I expected this to be MUCH worse. I'm very pleasantly surprised. (Now watch me get infected and regret all this.... NOOOOOOOOO)
