Got my wisdom teeth removed this morning

**mookien** · 16th January 12, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by MeghanWalker

... anybody else had their wisdom teeth removed? Im terrified of getting dry socket so Ive been worried about eating and drinking.

I dont really know what that is or how to properly swallow my food so I dont make that suction in my mouth.

The best way to prevent "dry sockets" and to treat them, if they occur, is to rinse your sockets with warm salt water at least a few times a day. Good luck.

**Steve of Lansing** · 16th January 12, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Got mine done while in college prep school (Texas Military Institute); had to have all 4 out via oral surgery and they used sodium pentothal for the anesthetic. Ah yes, the old "truth serum".

Knowing that people are prone to loquacity under its influence and that I could later deny any memory of it, I made a point on awakening in the recovery room to tell my grandmother, with whom I was boarding while going to school, just what I thought of her in the most profane language I could come up with. (Let's just say I didn't like being there.)

My only other memory of that was of vomiting blood all over her front lawn on the way from her car into the house.

There was a lot of fragmentation during the surgery. . .I had little shards and slivers occasionally working their way to the surface for 30 years or so.

You'll be fine. Enjoy your rest!

WOW!!!

Are we certain this was a dental procedure and not an "enhanced interrogation"?

They must just do things a little less gingerly in TX.

**bigdad1** · 16th January 12, 06:43 PM

Seago you just tell the most heart warming stories. I bet you are the life of the party.

**Father Bill** · 16th January 12, 06:59 PM

I just figured Dale would get his teeth out while practising his martial arts.

**Frank McGrath** · 16th January 12, 07:15 PM

Had mine done one at a time. Only once was I completely out . That was funny. Never needed the pain pills. Went out to lunch and then back to work. Good Luck.

**Bugbear** · 16th January 12, 07:16 PM

It was back when I was in college. They just gave me a shot of Novocaine or something in each tooth, and pulled them: it was a budget extraction. It didn't hurt, but it was very stressful, and my heart was racing after the dentist started on the second tooth.

I don't really remember how long it took to heal over, but at some point there won't be any holes or anything.
Hope all goes well, and good luck.

**ForresterModern** · 16th January 12, 07:27 PM

I had mine out in med school 28 years ago, all 4 in one sitting. Nitrous plus IV Valium and I had a religious experience, coming this close to meeting God, then they woke me up----drat. They stuffed my cheeks with gauze and as I was leaving with my girlfriend we ran into her roommate in the elevator, me looking and talking like Brando in the Godfather, only less intelligently. When the roommate learned of my dental surgery, she said, "I hope you feel better soon" and under the remaining effects of the Valium I replied, "I'm feeling jusssht fine.".

Don't worry, you should do fine. Keep up the cold fluids for a couple days, and the occasional icepack can tide you over when the painkillers don't last long enough. Good luck.

Jeff

**Meggers** · 16th January 12, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Got mine done while in college prep school (Texas Military Institute); had to have all 4 out via oral surgery and they used sodium pentothal for the anesthetic. Ah yes, the old "truth serum".

Knowing that people are prone to loquacity under its influence and that I could later deny any memory of it, I made a point on awakening in the recovery room to tell my grandmother, with whom I was boarding while going to school, just what I thought of her in the most profane language I could come up with. (Let's just say I didn't like being there.)

My only other memory of that was of vomiting blood all over her front lawn on the way from her car into the house.

There was a lot of fragmentation during the surgery. . .I had little shards and slivers occasionally working their way to the surface for 30 years or so.

You'll be fine. Enjoy your rest!

haha oh my gosh...your poor grandmother. That sounds like a SNL skit!

**Meggers** · 16th January 12, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by ForresterModern

I had mine out in med school 28 years ago, all 4 in one sitting. Nitrous plus IV Valium and I had a religious experience, coming this close to meeting God, then they woke me up----drat. They stuffed my cheeks with gauze and as I was leaving with my girlfriend we ran into her roommate in the elevator, me looking and talking like Brando in the Godfather, only less intelligently. When the roommate learned of my dental surgery, she said, "I hope you feel better soon" and under the remaining effects of the Valium I replied, "I'm feeling jusssht fine.".

Don't worry, you should do fine. Keep up the cold fluids for a couple days, and the occasional icepack can tide you over when the painkillers don't last long enough. Good luck.

Jeff

hahaha I like that. Thats kinda how mine went. I was juuuuuusht fine when I was high on those drugs.

I remember laying in the recovery chair pointing and making a whining sound at the window to the room where they took out my teeth. My mom kept asking me what I wanted but she couldnt understand me with the gauze in my mouth. She made it write it down and it was "I want to thank the doctor" in the worst handwriting Ive ever seen. lol. And then I made more whining/crying soudns when they said that they already showed me my teeth. I kept asking to see them over and over again.

maybe I will post the picture that she took of me in the recovery chair. hahahaha. A very happy Chipmonk look on my face.

**Deirachel** · 16th January 12, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by mookien

The best way to prevent "dry sockets" and to treat them, if they occur, is to rinse your sockets with warm salt water at least a few times a day. Good luck.

Only use the warm salt water if your dentist/oral surgeon says to; it's a common treatment, but there are some dentist who are starting to say "definitely not".

Basically, just do what after care the doc told you to do. I had mine extracted (straight pulled) about year ago now. I got one dry socket (I smoke), and my doc told me to apply clove oil and switch to clove cigarettes/cigars for a week, and it cleared up pretty quick. (Note, he wasn't saying it was ok to smoke, he was saying since I am GOING to smoke to smoke cloves.)

Of course, my oral surgeon listened to me telling him I'm resistant to topical anesthetics. I got about a quadruple dose of xylocaine per site (He reloaded the oral syringe five times for the whole set of injections). Yeah.... about a hour after the surgery it all hit full efficacy, and I sounded like a drunk Elvis for an few hours.