Wisdom Teeth

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I got mine taken out in my teens. The drugs really f***ed me up. I barely remember getting dragged out of the dentist office like a rowdy drunk getting thrown out of a bar. They also made me hysterical – I was crying for no reason at all. It wasn't because of the pain, because it wasn't that bad. The worst part was having to drink my meals for the next two weeks. I made the mistake of trying to eat pizza a few days after the surgery.

I had mine removed a couple of years ago. I do not recall any extreme pain, just a bloody mess which forced me to insert cotton balls in my mouth for a bit. The worst part was only being able to drink liquids several days after the surgery. I love eating food, especially ice and meat, so it was painful. Then with all the medication you have to take to alleviate the pain, you become as lazy as Jabba the Hutt.

The bright side was the wisdom teeth were causing pain since they had cavities and was relieved when they were pulled. Plus, I was able to keep them since they were my teeth anyway. What would the dentist want with wisdom anyway?

Now, I am scheduled for surgery to remove a lump on my lower lip which I will be under anesthesia this Friday. The surgeon told me it was one of the biggest lumps on the lips he has seen, and said it could get bigger. Again, I will suffer with drinking liquids and becoming lethargic. Lucky me!

I don't remember any pain after I got my wisdom teeth out. I felt fine a few hours later once the laughing gas stuff wore off. My mom offered me some pain killers when we got home from the ordeal but I never took any. I think I got really lucky or something, I have a high pain tolerance but I don't remember being in any pain at all afterwards. Besides the fact that my mouth was kind of bleeding and there were teeth missing I really didn't have problems with my wisdom teeth. Though I did try to play tennis the next day and nearly passed out on the court.

I just had them removed last month. * even though they were not bothering me *

I just got my wisdom tooth pulled out I went to my dentist today and when he started drilling, he was surprised I never had any toothache in it, for the whole tooth was damaged and nothing could save it The outside hole that was so seemingly innocent, inside was the gate to the wide whole world of damage So he said I could get it pulled out if I wanted and I - after a long hesitation - agreed. But it wasn't that scary - so far, every time I got my teeth pulled out (twice), I was preparing mentally for it for months. And here my decision was taken in half a minute when the dentist kept telling me what other things could be done (and even if, it still wouldn't guarantee to me that finally, having a lot of money spent on the attempts to save it, I wouldn't need to tell my tooth "bye"), I decided to go for it. It took him just a couple of seconds to pull it out

Recently I had some problems with some other wisdom tooth that wasn't going to come out and he had to cut my gum to help it get out

My wisdom tooth - what was left of it - I told you that it was VERY damaged - now is lying in a special "tooth container" - a pink, plastic, tooth shaped casket I got when I expressed my wish to keep the tooth.

I had six wisdom teeth (the extra two were on the lower jaw, one left one right) and they all impacted as there just wasn't room for them in my mouth, and they grew in decayed as the gums had kept sealing over the tips and trapping debris. Immense pain involved, especially the last one where I had to have it removed in hospital and had a long wait for the appointment, for a few months I was existing on codeine, ibuprofen, paracetamol, no solid food and very little sleep.

Then once the tooth was pulled, I came home and slept for 12 hours, woke up and took 2 paracetamol and went to work feeling great.

Had mine removed in August 2006; I was pretty much incapacitated for several days after the surgery. Really unpleasant....

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I had mine out. I really disliked the gauze in my mouth.

I am lucky: mine are fully in, and I get to keep them!

I have only one of mine, and that's in the upper left of my mouth. It was a pain in the rear end when it was coming in.

I have all four of them. Hopefully I won't have to get them removed, because I can't trust dentists at all.

My wisdom teeth were removed when I was in high school.

One wisdom tooth for me. It is still there and straight (bottom right), only it pushed the lateral incisor on that side of the jaw out of alignment. You can't see the crooked tooth unless I open my mouth wide so I never bothered to have it out.

I have a dentist phobia so it'll take a lot more than a crooked tooth to get me into the chair.

I had mine removed last summer. I was stoned off my donkey on the Vicodin and high as a kite on the gas.

Do not have a dentist remove them,use an oral surgeon.I had a broke one removed by a dentist,it was a bad experience.Got a new dentist,had another wisdom tooth that got a cavity in it.My dentist will not remove them,if they pull a lower one and botch the job it can damage the nerve that runs along the lower jaw.
He referred me to a great oral surgeon,he was able to pull it and it was not bad at all.
They did all four of my sons in an hour,his were surgically removed.They knocked him out but I opted to be awake.I have two left,one will need to be removed it is crooked but one has not come down yet.
The folklore around here is that when the last one comes in half your life is over.Since I'm almost 50 I hope that's true,I'll make it to a 100 easy.