what should i expect when i get my WISDOM TEETH taken out???

Question

everytime i've been going to the dentist for the past year, my dentist keeps telling me "yep, those wisdom teeth will be coming out in the summer. it's going to hurt, so we'll have to take them out a weekend when you wont be doing anything". it's scaring me!
what else should i expect including the pain?

Answer 1

I have had all four removed. You will have a sore mouth for several days and the dentist may give you something for the discomfort.

Plan on eating soft food or drinking shakes, etc., until your mouth has healed.

The pain is not serious and you will never miss them.

Answer 2

You know, the funny thing is that I don't remember the pain. I'm sure there must have been some, but I guess my point is that it wasn't such a bad experience that I remember it.

It's also possible that the reason I don't remember any pain is because I was put under general anaesthetic - put to sleep - for the actual removal. So of course that part didn't hurt at all. And then afterwards, there were some heavy duty pain killers or something. I seem to remember being kind of woozy for a couple of days, but it wasn't that big of a deal. Sit around, read magazines and watch the telly, sip liquids, that kind of thing. My face was puffy, so I tried not to look in the mirror.

So. Everybody's different, but I'm going to hope you have an experience more like mine. And, um, give me the phone number of your dentist. I need to have a talk with him about unnecessarily scaring the wits out of his patients ...

Answer 3

Same thing as having any tooth removed. Mine didn't hurt much, but I felt uncomfortable for the rest of the day. The top ones drain well, but the bottom ones do not. If you keep the blood and food cleaned out of the sockets, especially the bottom ones, with a Q tip and rinse your mouth with weak salt water every day, you shouldn't have any unusual problems. And don't worry, It doesn't affect your wisdom; you'll still have the same amount!

Answer 4

Don't worry. Your dentist is making it sound worse so that you'll be relieved when you find out how easy it really is.

The most painful part is when the teeth are actually pulled. Expect each tooth extracted to feel like giving birth to triplets who come out simultaneously butts first. Out of your gums, that is. The rest is a piece of cake if you just follow these simple instructions:

1. No solids or liquids of any kind for five days.

2. Avoid talking and smiling until you are fully healed. Otherwise you could bleed to death before you can get to a hospital.

3. Breathe as little as possible.

4. No kissing or oral sex.

5. Do not sleep on your back or you could drown in your own blood.

Hope this puts your mind at ease. Good luck!

Answer 5

Well, to scare the poopy out of you, go to the next dental question down and read Ava's situation. Click on her picture and read the questions that she has been posting since Wednesday.

But, please understand that it is not always this way. Here is the story about my three children and their wisdom teeth. Let's hope that yours go this way instead.

I removed two of my older daughter's wisdom teeth at 2:00 in the afternoon and told her to go home and lie down until dinner time. Before I got home, she had already left for the mall! I was rather angry, because I figured that she'd be moaning all night long and asking me what to do for the pain. Much to my happy surprise, she seemed just fine. She said that she waited until the numbness started to go away and she felt pretty good, so she decided to get up and go.

Same thing with my son. We were actually headed home from a drum lesson and he asked if we could stop in the office to check out the sore place in his mouth. It turned out to be an erupting wisdom tooth. He asked if I felt like taking it out right then, so I did. (I was afraid he might change his mind if he thought about it overnight.) His mom didn't even know he had a wisdom tooth taken out until he had to take the gauze out of his mouth to eat dinner. His uppers were both kind of difficult and he had trouble healing with one of them (sinus involvement), but that didn't last for more than 3 or 4 days.

With my third child, I took her to the oral surgeon, because the roots were sort of close to the nerve and _I_ didn't want to be the one to cause her any trouble if things got difficult. She had nitrous oxide and little bit of iv sedation and had all four removed at once. I wanted to get her right home, but she asked me to stop off at the mall before we went home. She insisted that she was okay. Instead of going home and lying down, she walked through the mall. Yes, she was biting on her gauze packs (in the mall!), but still she was a lot more active than I would recommend. She had no trouble at all healing. I think she went out that night, too. (It was 1999, so I don't remember the details.)

I'm not saying that they are ALL like this, but there are wisdom teeth and then there are w*!`S^D@m TEETH!!! I always say that wisdom teeth (and root canals, by the way) are like teenagers. At least 90% are no trouble at all, but everybody talks about the bad ones.

Also, see http://www.webmd.com/hw/dental/tm6328.asp

Answer 6

You'll most likely be completely out of it for at least a day, maybe even two. Then, there's pain and swelling in your face. Nothing you can't handle, they usually prescribe pain meds. You should be pretty well recovered after 5-7 days.

Answer 7

I had all 4 removed at the same time. I was put under anesthesia, so I felt nothing during the procedure. Afterwords I felt great, no pain, no problems.

Answer 8

you will be really sore and swollen but thats all normal. your body will just need time to heal its self dont worry its gonna be ok.

Answer 9

pain

Answer 10

omg...your WISDOM TEETH....awe poor thing...now your gonna be dumb.