sami0201
Blue Crack Addict
had the surgery this morning (under iv sedation) which was lovely and i don't remember getting home but now, ooouuchhhh!!! this sucks.
Yeah, lovely vicodin But still, I can barely open my mouth or eat anything Most annoying feeling ever!
Oh you poor poor dear! I remember having that done. The pain was one thing...the healing process wasn't fun, I remember my mouth tasting awful and having to swish this stuff around in it. Lots of jello, mashed potatoes, milkshakes and babyfood or pudding for days. Bleh. I hope you heal fast sami!
How smart can wisdom teeth be when they insist on growing in the most inappropriate of places in the mouth? You'd think they would have learnt by now.
nitrous oxide machine at the house!
I think all of mine were impacted. I just remember having jaw pain and going to the oral surgeon. He took an x-ray, looked at it, said "yup, they're impacted" and scheduled me to have them removed the following week.I have never had an impacted tooth but I hear they are really painful and longer recovery than having a "normal" tooth extraction.
well they're called wisdom teeth because people think wisdom comes with age, and you get the teeth when you grow older..
the thing I wonder about the most tho is, what purpose do they serve?? I even asked my dentist, he didn't have a clue! they are unnecessary and with most people there's no room in the jaw for them either!
My oral surgeon explained all of this to me...
Back thousands of years ago when we were like cavemen, humans needed their teeth to survive. They would rip open animals with them, needed them to eat (obviously) and didn't have utensils. And because they were using their teeth for so much they would get infected a lot and fall out and crack and stuff and when a person back then didn't have teeth, they usually died at a young age because they had no way to eat their food. So wisdom teeth evolved to come in at an age where a person may only have a few teeth left to give them another shot at life. They were there to help the species survive. But now that we don't hunt and kill our own food and have other ways to eat they are basically just a pain in the ass.
Or something like that