Dental Advice please Fast?

Question

Hi I'm 17 and need some serious help. I'm a little scared of the dentist not anything to serious. I have to get a cleaning and before that my densit told me that I had to have my wisdom teth pulled. I'm only going for my cleaning, but now I'm so scared for some odd reason. Please give me some advice and tips especially if your a dentist or work in the dental field. Also can you give me some ways to stay relaxed while recieving any injections I may need, the last thing I want is to have even more pain by not acting the way I should.

Answer 1

If you feel you will be a nervous patient, ask your dentist to refer you to an oral surgeon for your wisdom teeth. He can put you to sleep (that's what they did for me), and you won't have to deal with anything. Good luck!

Answer 2

well i work in a dental office. I dont think he will pull all of your wisdom teeth then send you off for a cleaning. Usually when they do all 4 wisdom teeth they will put you to sleep. You cant have all 4 areas of your mouth frozen at once. Some ways to keep relaxed is ask your dentist to pres. you some Valium before your appt. You will need someone to take you there and back, because you cant be on your own. Ask your dentist again about his plans about extracting your wisdom teeth.

Answer 3

Hey. Okay well I dont know if your getting surgery for it or not. But just the best way to go in there is calmly. I had my wisdom teeth cut out when I was 14. And yeah I was scared but I just went in there calm and like okay lets do this. If you are getting put to sleep for it dont worry because oviously your not gonna feel any pain from it. The people who do it are always really nice. Just keep your mind off the topic and on something else and be like okay whatever im going to get this over with finally. For me the only thing i remember is waking up. Your just kind of out of it and might feel a bit sick, also really hungry. Just make sure not to think about it, its not that bad for me getting a filling was way more painfull so you'll be okay:)

Answer 4

Im Only 14 I got all of the wisdom teeth pulled out last week trust me on this they will do the cleaning only you have to come back for the extrations because they give you a Intervenus for wisdow teeth extraction

Answer 5

the best thing is if your not numb tell him. He should wait for the oral gel to work before your injection. You won't feel anything after that. Dentist are great now. They really do work with everyone's fears. If you are getting your teeth drilled and you don't like the noise, bring in headphones and music.

Answer 6

i would try to go to one that used IV conscious sedation, but it is ok if you just get the shots. take no vitamin C a day or two before surgery (it's not as crucial if they are sedating you, but it still makes the local anesthetic only last 10 mins per shot, so it will still stress the body if you take C that day or the night before, eventhough you won't be aware of it at the time). no food or drink after 10pm the nite before, except small sips of water is what we tell people. go to a biologic dentist and have the cavitations done (see below).

POST-OP INSTRUCTIONS

Bite on the gauze for about 30 minutes after your surgery. Do not bite too firmly, just enough to keep the gauze in place. After the blood clot forms it is important to protect it especially for the next 48 hours to avoid dry socket. Drainage for a few days is normal. To minimize swelling and bleeding, keep head elevated (use extra pillows when sleeping). You can brush your teeth the day of surgery. Avoid brushing the surgery site. Any stitches will come out on their own in a week

Rinse your mouth with warm salt water after meals and before bed. Begin a very gentle warm salt water rinses (1tsp. salt for every 8oz. of water). The first day or so, do not swish the water around in your mouth; Instead, move your head side to side to rinse. Do not spit; Let the water flow out of your mouth. If you are watching salt intake in your diet, you may substitute the salt water rinse with a peroxide and warm water rinse. Use a 50/50 peroxide and water solution

NO smoking for 2 days
NO drinking through a straw for 2 days
NO mouthwash for a week
NO excessive spitting
NO vigorous rinsing for at least 48 hours after your surgery
AVOID alcoholic beverages
AVOID greasy foods
AVOID high acidic foods and drinks such as tomatos, orange juice, etc....
DO NOT over exert yourself. It is ok to ride in a car or on a plane

For Pain:

Advil (Ibuprofen) or Aleve (Naproxin Sodium) or Extra-Strength Tylenol (Acetaminophen). Take with food. NO aspirin or aspirin products

For Swelling:

Place an ice bag on side of face where your surgery was, for 30 minutes on, then 30 minutes off. Repeat for 6 hours. After 48 hours, use warm compresses as needed for swelling

Eat soft foods. No chips, pretzels, peanuts, etc.... Stay away from crunchy, chewy or small hard foods, to avoid food particles becoming lodged in the socket. Suggested foods are clear broth, pasta, potatoes, yogurt, baby food, smoothies, pudding, cream of wheat, 7up, Ginger Ale, apple juice
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EXTRACTIONS

Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.


CAVITATIONS

A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.

There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.

Answer 7

im 9 ive had shots to make my teeth numb they dont really hurt.