I am having teeth taken out in couple days. i am going under general anesthesia and i have impacted wisdom teeth. i heard they stick a tube down your throat. do they do this before they put you to sleep or after? what is it? can someone please explain. thanks a lot
2006-08-26 20:02:47 · 17 answers · asked by fsadfsa s 1 in Health ➔ Dental
What?! There is NO dental procedure whatsoever that will cause the dentist or Oral Surgeon to place a tube down your throat...(Intibation)
2006-08-26 20:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by bndjunction4 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hello. First off i am recovering from having all 4 wisdom teeth out as all were impacted and am currently on day 3. I can tell you first hand with my surgery i DID get intubated. I was given a general anaesthetic for the proceedure. I didnt really think about whether or not i would have the tube or not i just figured it would happen. it wasnt until the nurse told my dad they put a tube down that i really thought about that and as a resault i had a sore dry throat for about a day and a half and my voice was raspy but it passed. Im from Australia and that could be the difference but either way it happened. The tube is always placed in when you are asleep and you never really knew you had a tube unless your throat is sore or they tell you. Hope that helps. Just remember time heals everything best, take it easy and whatever happens, happens. No point worrying about what has happened just rest and recover and you will be feeling better in no time.
2016-10-27 16:21:39 · answer #2 · answered by skeleton78 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are undergoing general anesthesia, then they will stick a tube down your throat. First they will give you some medications through an IV line to make you unconscious. You won't feel the tube all.
The tube is called an endotracheal tube (ET tube). It goes down into your trachea and into your lungs so that a machine can breathe for you while they do the surgery. When they give you general anesthesia, it temporarily paralyzes you, so you can't breathe on your own. When they are done with the surgery, they will give you medications to reverse the paralysis, and you will wake up in the recovery room.
If you are going to have local anesthesia instead, then all it involves is a shot to numb your gums and maybe some sedatives through an IV line. No tube involved at all!
I'm not sure they even do general anesthesia for dental procedures. Maybe you should check with your dentist just to be sure.
Hope this helps!
2006-08-26 20:09:34 · answer #3 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a dentist.
First and foremost, you are not actually undergoing "general anesthesia" in the truest sense of the term. If you are having it done at your oral surgeon's office, you are going to have IV sedation, also known as "conscious sedation". In this case, you will be able to breathe on your own, maintain your own airway, and even respond to the doctor's instructions during the procedure.
"Sticking a tube down your throat" is properly known as "intubation", a procedure performed in cases when general anesthesia is being administered and the patient is unable to maintain his/her own airway and breathe on his/her own.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons, when working under general anesthesia (most often in the hospital), rarely request that the anesthesiologists stick the tube down your throat (i.e. GETA or General Endo Tracheal Anesthesia). They request GNETA, or General Nasal Endo Tracheal Anesthesia, where the "tube" is stuck down your nose and into your trachea.
If in fact you're going to the OR and they plan on administering general anesthesia and plan on intubating you, they will put you under beforehand.
Obviously, if one were to try and intubate someone while they were awake, their gag reflex would cause violent gagging. It is almost essential that a patient be sedated to the point where this gag reflex is suppressed completely and intubation can be performed.
2006-08-26 20:25:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
From experience, and i have had alot of dental work done, I can say that i have never had a tube put down my throat. I have had my wisdom teeth removed, and they just numbed me up really good..... I never did like the putting to sleep idea.
2006-08-26 20:07:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they won't stick a tube down your throat. You will be very doped up but not totally unconcious and won't even know what they are doing but no tube and it will be fine. The relief after the teeth are out will be so great so don't worry about it. It will be like you droped off to sleep and it will be done. I am a nurse so you needent worry honest.
2006-08-26 20:11:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had 2 wisdom teeth removed (upper & lower on the same side). I had chipmunk cheeks for 4 days, sore jaw for 5 days, pain for probably 3 days. I couldn't eat solids in a week, so I took about 7 days to recover.
2016-03-26 21:36:02 · answer #7 · answered by Farin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm getting my wisdom teeth out under general anesthetic soon too. My surgeon told me that after they knock me out, they will put a tube down my nose. It's for breathing purposes.
2006-08-30 18:08:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled when i was younger and i didnt even have a IV or any tube down my throat and i just had a tooth pulled on friday all they did was the novacaine was awake of it all but if they use a tube on you it would probably be a NG tube
2006-08-26 20:19:39 · answer #9 · answered by grey_wolf54486 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's a suction tube use to take saliva & blood out during the operation. When I had my impacted tooth extracted They just used Mandibular block injection not gen. anesthesia. Goodluck
2006-08-26 20:42:41 · answer #10 · answered by jas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋