getting wisdom teeth taken out...

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I had all 4 removed a few summers ago, the worst part was not being able to eat solid foods for days, drove me nuts. I felt little or no pain, just did what the dr said and ate lots of pain medication.

Finally had almost all of them out. What a relief. I can't begin to say all the trouble my teeth have caused over my life. I grind them at night or did, set it up for no enamel and it isn't hard to figure what happened from there. Add in lack of money at times to get what needed fixed on time and...enough, you get the picture.

My dentist when I was a kid never used any kind of pain killer, none, not even novocaine. You can guess what that set me up for as far as going to a dentist. I hope there is a special place in hell for that guy. No, it wasn't the getting them out, it was getting in the car to go in the winter time and it was the anxiety of the waiting room. If they got behind schedule and had me on hold for very long, I was out the door. The actual removal wasn't bad at all, although I freak when they give me gas, I hate the feeling of non-control. So it was just novocaine, although years before they knocked me out with sodium pentathol for the wisdom teeth, that was easy, out like a light and just woke up all over with. I wish I had had them out centuries ago and I can still feel them at times, even to the point of eating something really sweet that would have had me rolling in pain before and I get a pseudo tooth ache. I miss them not. All I did for pain was aspirin, I just took two instead of my usual one and pain has to be pretty bad for me to even do one. I suppose that would vary from person to person and pain tolerance.

I was thinking it might be cool to get false teeth with braces on them. (ok so I stole this from part of a Steven Wright joke, but only partly)

well, that was interesting. the nitrous gas was amazing and made me totally zoned out. the removal took about two hours but it seemed more like 20 minutes. this pain medicine is making me light headed...weeeee....

Feel glad. Some people don't get the luxury of having painful parts of their mouths or throat removed.

I can barely freaking swallow.

Edited out... in retrospect, it doesn't seem like the most responsible thing to have said

I remember how scared I was. I had brought my 2 stuffed toy frogs with me for comfort. Fat lot of help they were. Finally, the doctor decided the best thing to do was to get the IV in as a first step, and he promised he wouldn't knock me out. He then proceeded to knock me out anyway, and I was then on the couch at home watching some dumpy show remembering nothing. Didn't even hurt. I have heard that some people's cheeks swell up. That could be an issue for an aspie who's afraid of looking funny for a while. Mine swelled enough that I couldn't close my jaw without squishing it, but it didn't manifest externally.

That was about 4 years ago. I still have the teeth in a drawer as a memento that I can handle anything.

my surgeon kept the teeth as well, but when i had to get 4 teeth extracted for my braces he gave them to me in a container which i chucked out after a while along with the teeth.
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I remember getting mine out a long time ago. Two were impacted and another was just barely not.

A lot of people, apparently, find the noises to be the most disturbing part. For some reason I didn't find it to be a big deal really. It was over so quick regardless.

It depends on the method used whether you get your teeth back afterwards. One way of doing it (the way I did it) is to essentially crack the teeth in three or four pieces and pick them out individually. It makes for a much faster and less bleeding, though the surgeon needs to be careful to pick all the pieces out But then you can't save the teeth since they're all chopped up. Sometimes for impacted teeth that's the only way to do it also.

I've had that experience. I was doped up on narcotics, for three days, drinking two litres of pop a day, like my doctor said to do. I was also eating Chef Boy Ardee and Spaghetti Os' for those days, as well, along with pudding. Thank God, the pudding was chocolate. I couldn't eat the canned stuff, or the pudding, for an whole year after that, because I was so sick of it.

Why do we need our wisdom teeth removed again? Besides it being a challenge to reach that far with a tooth brush.

I'm going to get mine removed sometime this year.