please come here if you have had your wisdom teeth pulled EASY 10 POINTS?

Question

okay so i had my wisdom teeth (all 4)out about 2 months agonow. the other day i woke up and my gum was swoolen. this is the second time. the first time i got anit-biotics and so i went again this time and he said there is a piece of bone stuck in my gum that has to come out so i have to go in for surgury again. has this happened to anyone or has anyone heard of this happening?

Answer 1

I had some bone fragments left in my gums from having my wisdom teeth pulled. The dentist told me to let them work themselves out. Surgery may suck, but it may be better than what i experienced.

Answer 2

okay since you're not worried about the anesthesia then I swill tell you the rest of what will happen, you'll have to eat soft foods for a while, like up to two weeks i think, until the stitches are out, no chips or anything, no popcorn until it is all healed. It takes about a month to heal. When you leave you'll want to drink some water, no soft drinks and they should tell you this too. You'll feel a weird hole where the tooth was, and it will be sore if you touch it with your tongue. The stitches will pull sometimes, so try not to open your mouth wide, like when you're laughing. you will probably be prescribed pain meds like vicodin or something to help with pain. other than that there isn't much. try no to chew right by where the teeth were taken out when you do get back to solid foods, at least until it's healed all the way.

Answer 3

I've heard of it; it can happen if the teeth were impacted. I think it's kind of difficult to separate them from the bone, and the dentists can miss little bits. You must be relieved that there is something they'll be able to do to fix the problem so you don't keep getting these sore, swollen gums. I'm so sorry you need more surgery, though! My wisdom teeth came out pretty easily, under general anesthesia, with a pretty quick recovery time. I hope your first surgery went well and you aren't dreading this coming one!

Answer 4

It did not happen to me, and I had 5 Wisdom teeth, which is not unknown. I did not find your problem listed as one of the typical complications, but it is a likely one. Broken bone or teeth could hide in the wound tract.

When your wisdom teeth come in, usually they come in at a bad angle. The human jaw is not designed to hold your wisdom teeth. However, when we were still living in caves and occasionally losing teeth it was a good idea.

A lot of time the teeth grow in impacted, mine did. Typically they grow in sideways (see the x-ray in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_Teeth#Post-extraction_problems). The teeth are fused to the bone, there is a seam, but the teeth are part of your jaw. Removing them is not a quick and easy procedure. Normally the surgeon lays open the gum so he (or she) can get a good grip on it with some dental pliers and pull it out. The tooth is a hollow bone (most of our bones are hollow, but filled with bone marrow). Our teeth have a soft core and a nerve inside. If the enamel breaks while the dentist is pulling out the tooth then a chip could get lost in the wound tract, normal surgical practice should have removed it though (suction, visual examination, a later x-ray). Still a bit of the tooth could have escaped his notice (it is awful hard to see inside that wound), it could have been lodged in the gum or the bone. Then it would become a problem later.

It is also possible that the jaw cracked when the tooth came out. In this case the crack may not have healed and a chip could have broken off. The dental surgeon would have no way of knowing that this happened.

According to the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/wisdom-teeth/DS00679/DSECTION=8
“An impacted wisdom tooth that has partially emerged may be removed with forceps. But if the tooth is fully impacted or if the roots reach deep into the jawbone, the tooth may have to be broken into pieces for removal. In more severe cases, portions of jawbone may need to be removed.”

So I can see how a bone chip could have gotten left in the wound tract. It is uncommon, but if he had to break the tooth, or if part of the jawbone broke then it is a foreseeable complication.

More common complications are sinus trouble from a perforated sinus cavity, minor nerve damage or nerve pain, dry socket, and of course infection. So this is not a bad complication, it will mean another period of healing, but the incision to remove the chip should be smaller.

However, the bone or tooth chip got stuck in the wound tract and now the body’s defense system is trying to remove it. Given a lot of time it could be handled, but to avoid all that pain the best thing to do is to remove that chip. Having 2 postoperative complications is very rare, but it falls within the odds. Still if you are having to pay for the operation yourself then I would raise this point. I don’t want to say your oral surgeon isn’t a good one, I just think that 2 complications is a rare event. You can’t get a discount unless you ask for one. I would also want to look at the x-ray to see what he is talking about and then ask him about any more possible complications.

(P.S. I had to have mine taken out only under general anthesia, and on a holiday to boot. I was sore for two weeks, but I was lucky enough to avoid any complications.)

Answer 5

Yes, I had all four wisdom teeth out at the same time as well. Actually, tiny fragments of bone worked their way up to the surface of my gums for quite awhile. It really sucked. I didn't end up with an infection, though. My surgeon left two very large holes on either side of my mouth to allow for any loose pieces of bone to come out of. The holes didn't fill in with tissue for about a year. So maybe, the gaps he left allowed infection( and bone ) to drain out and not get trapped. That was 15 years ago. Don't worry, you'll probably heal just fine. Take your antibiotics as directed and keep swishing with warm salt water. good luck.

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please come here if you have had your wisdom teeth pulled EASY 10 POINTS?
okay so i had my wisdom teeth (all 4)out about 2 months agonow. the other day i woke up and my gum was swoolen. this is the second time. the first time i got anit-biotics and so i went again this time and he said there is a piece of bone stuck in my gum that has to come out so i have to go in for...

Answer 7

I have had my wisdom teeth and many others taken out but have not had the problem you describe. I believe you dentist must have made a mistake in extracting your teeth. Is he doing this next operation for free or is he charging you for it? If he is charging you I would see a lawyer first to see if there is a way of getting this for free.
First time consultation with lawers are usually free and if not there are lawyers that give advice for free on matters like this.

Answer 8

my root of the wisdom teeth was grown around my jaw bone. i went to an oral surgeon in elizabethtown kentucky..his name is Ordie Day ! he was great,. i went to sleep and when i wole up it was all over! i had lost 4 wisdom teeth in a flash! my jaw was not swollen nor did i have any black eyes from it. i took pain med for two days (routinely) and drank soup out of a cup NO STRAWS though. honestly it was only sore for a couple of days. no problem at all i did get a chip of bone out a few weeks later but it was just stuck in the gum like and did not hurt at all coming out. BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT EACH PERSON IS DIFFERENT AS FAR AS PAIN GOES AND ALWAYS TAKE PAIN MED ROUTINELY WHEN THE PAIN JUST BEGINS OR FOR AT LEAST 24 TO 36 HOURS after the surgery. routinely means at least efvery 4 to 6 hours.

Answer 9

I had all 4 of mine done at the same time as well. I was fortunate and the bleedeing stopped right away and, aside from the swelling and bruising, I healed up very well! I think that this other surgey will be okay and not as major as the teeth pulling! Good luck and take care! Don't worry! :-)

Answer 10

If your teeth are impacted, it is possible to miss a portion of the tooth. Now that the rest of the tooth is out, it allows this part to protrude.
While it is not common, it can happen. The British Veterinarian James Herriott in his books talks about going into the military and how someone decided that he needed a tooth out. They used a certain means to extract it and left a chunk of tooth that pushed its way out later.