When you are sedated when getting your wisdom tooth removed do you really not remember the surgery?

Question

the doctor told me i wouldn't remember any of it..And I've never been sedated before. Is it anything to worry about?

Answer 1

It's true. It depends on the medication used, but typically you will get an IV and the medication runs into a vein. It's effects are almost immediate and once you are under they go to work. All in all it might only take 10 minutes for the entire procedure and then you are finished. They stop the medication and you begin to wake up, some more slowly than others.
You will have no recollection of anything, other than what happened just before they started, and maybe not even that. Each person is a little different.
In fact, there are even medications that can eliminate your short term memory. An example of this would be a patient who was undergoing some type of surgery and the sedation wore off too quickly and they woke up while being worked on. And yes, this has happened. A quick dose of something like Versed and off to sleep you go and you would never remember a thing.

Enough said. You shouldn't worry yourself too much. Get some pain medication to carry you through the period after having the teeth extracted and you will be fine.

Answer 2

A little info I think should be considered about this drug Versed ( Midazolam ) that is used for Sedation for many medical procedures..Sedation and General Anesthesia are not the same and quite a few people being given Sedation
think they are being given General Anesthesia!

There is simply no good or valid reason to ever purposely induce amnesia during a medical procedure. It is only a recent development in medical thinking that amnesia is somehow a "benefit" to the patient. On occasion some
some patients will remember a bad experience. Forgetting does not mean it did not happen!!
I feel that if people were aware of the effects of this drug they would Opt For Another Drug!
Erasing someones memory of what was done to them is wrong!!
In fact, many people who use Versed for " IV Sedation,Conscious Sedation" Twilight Sedation, during a procedure are Awake For The Entire Procedure but remember nothing, often Believing They Were "Out" the whole time.

Versed (Midazolam) is an amnestic. It is also commonly used for minor procedures like setting broken bones,colonoscopies,endoscopies, dental procedures like extractions,conscious sedation,twilight sleep, so that patients won't remember pain and discomfort.HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THOSE SENSATIONS WILL NOT BE EXPERIENCED!!!!

A note from an anesthesiologist
I agree that using midazolam alone in painful situations is wrong. I've heard people getting colonoscopies and screaming, and maybe they remember, maybe they don't.

A note I got from someone on Yahoo Answers who did have a bad experience..This is very disconcerting... My sister said she heard me screaming from the waiting room but assumed it wasn't me. When we left we heard another female patient screaming. I did a lot of research since your post, thanks so much for the info.

Here is a note from a Dentist Who uses Versed
I've used Versed 1000+ times during oral surgery procedures and I've never had a complaint. It's a miracle drug because it is safe and it causes you to not remember an unpleasant experience. My answer to him is isn't it better to have not experienced the pain than to have forgot it. No wonder you have had no complaints they have no memory of the procedure.....

I feel that giving a drug for amnesia is cruel I would not want it done to me!

A strange development in medical thinking that it's okay for a patient to have
pain as long as they don't remember it and think they slept thru the procedure..


Here is a link for some info

http://www.freehelpforcancer.com/manages-meds/sedation

Answer 3

Well if you go under be prepared to wake up to a room full of laughing people... We do crazy things when we are sedated. Men get angry, Women are usually more emotional. Most people have the tendancy to try and touch their private parts and stick their hands in their pants.

When doing an internship with an office I sat in on a surgury.. The little girl was having her wisdom teeth removed... She wanted to give her teeth, ( which she thought were corn kernals ) to the homeless because they were hungry... HAHAHA I loved it!!

Answer 4

i've been working @ the dentist for about 3 years and from experience i can tell you that the last thing you remember is having a conversation with the Doctor and when you wake up your mouth will feel kinda numb (from the injection) and you'll go home after wards with some painkillers and a "tender" jaw. and the next day you'll be a-okay, some people feel grumpy for a week and have to wear an ice pack around their faces and some feel just fine the next day! depends whet er you're dentist himself is doing the extractions or a specialist.

Answer 5

Its true, the only thing i remember, when i was sedated for my wisdom teeth, is the initial process of them getting prepared and them asking me a question, and then nothing. until i woke up later staring outside a window.

and no there is nothing to worry about, just after it all you will feel light.

Answer 6

If he gives you the gas mask, you won't care what the hell is happening to you. You could be lying there naked and not care trust me.