That’s it 
. I have a deep cavity in one of my wisdom tooth, and the doctor has to remove it.
I’m so scared, not only because of the operation, but for the post-operative as well.
I don’t know how many days I won’t be able to eat, play whistle/flute, etc..
Why life is so cruel?!
Are you having them take the rest as well? Because it might be a good idea just to ditch the whole lot.*
*This is not medical advice. I have no idea what I’m talking about. I still have all of my wisdom teeth.
I had all four pulled back in my mid twenties to make room for braces.(No I’m far from vain, just wanted to be able to take a bite of stuff like pizza, tomatoes, etc. that required the upper teeth meeting the lower at some point)
Anyway, it wasn’t horrible. That’s not to say that dental work can’t be awful, believe me, but don’t worry too much. You may feel crappy for a few days, but you can eat, …just carefully.
I had all my wisdom teeth out, one side at a time. The top were severely impacted, and they were facing toward the back of my mouth. The recovery wasn’t really a big deal, nor was the extraction, except that THE ANAESTHETIC (NOVOCAINE) DIDN’T REALLY WORK!!! I swear, the dentist, knowing novocaine didn’t work that well on me, gave me about four shots before starting, but as soon as he put the scalpel to my gum, I jumped about a foot. Then he gave me a few more shots, it was okay, he got the top one out, but then the bottom wasn’t numb anymore. Three or four more shots, then that wore off before the bottom one was out, then a couple more shots, then finally I was going home. Then, of course, it wore off before I could open my mouth to take the codeine, so I was crying for a couple of hours before finally deciding to screw the pressure bandage and took a codeine and a few aspirin and was okay after a little while.
And I did this one side at a time, so it was basically repeated except for maybe one round of shots and the period after – I took a codeine before the second round of extractions (saved from the first round) and also pretty soon after. Didn’t suffer for it.
No, I will only have this one pulled out, because of that deep cavity. I’ve never had a trouble or pain due to my wisdom teeth (I’m 21 years old), so, I don’t want to suffer unnecessarily!
Been there, done that. It’s a good excuse to live on milkshakes for a couple of days. 
I was a college senior - don’t remember any pain - I lost count of the amount of Novocaine, but the dentist used me as a teaching dummy for some intern. Took all four, but that was the plan from the beginning. My sweetie nursed me back to health, but I also don’t remember too many jello and milkshake days. You’ll be back on your feet and whistling in no time!
pastorkeith
I’ve had one out so far, and the other three getting pulled soon. The procedure itself was a breeze… I felt no pain. The recovery sucked, though, because my gums got infected. I ended up needing antibiotics.
one side at a time, in my mid twenties, no problems.
depends a lot on how competent the dentist is
Good luck with it… be sure to follow the directions for care. You’ll be functional again in no time! 
I haven’t been to a dentist in nearly 30 years. I am very fortunate that my teeth are in very good condition - because it is abject terror that has kept me away.
Last time I went the dentist told me that my wisdom teeth should come out. I was never keen on going to the dentist, but the bloody silly tales that my friends told me while I was waiting for my appointment (a load of made-up nonsense) scared me so much that I cancelled and have never been back.
Absolutely irrational, but dentists and flying are two things I just can’t cope with. The furthest I dare fly is Ireland.
I guess I’ll have to go to a dentist eventually, but the prospect brings me out in a cold sweat.
Still, I have my protective dentist-mantra perfected. It’s a set of magic words one intones to the dentist just before treatment. It goes like this:
“We’re not going to hurt each other, are we?”
Wow I thought I was bad (pushing 10 years for me). It’s not fear that’s kept me away though, just a mix of laziness and a chronic shortage of the effin dentists in the first place. It’s impossible to get on the books of a NHS dentist up here.
I had all of mine pulled at 17, and have trotted 2 of my 4 kids off for the same within the past couple years. It’s a nuisance, but really won’t take more than a few days before you’re back up to speed.
I only have two wisdom teeth that ever emerged. The others are hiding somewhere. My dentist is pretty good, but tight-fisted. She wanted to charge me extra for damage to her chair when the drill went through the back of my neck.
djm
I had the good sense to have my wisdom teeth pulled out one side at a time. That way you have one good side to chomp on while the other side is healing. I don’t know whether you can expect to have only half as much pain though.
I remember that I had recently gotten dental insurance from an employer, so I looked through the provider book and found a group of dentists that were accepting new patients. What they didn’t mention was that the dental office was in the mall basement underneath a department store. When I arrived for my early appointment, I had to knock on the glass doors of the department store so that the security guard could let me in. I walked through the darkened store and took the elevator to the basement. Kind of creepy actually. When you have a dental practice that is searching for patients, I think that says something about the quality of dental care that you may receive. In my case, other than the fact that my dentist was a little strange, I was satisfied with the quality of care.
That’s a very good point.
I am far luckier than I deserve. I only ever had about six cavities filled, and I don’t remember having had any extractions. My teeth are strong and give me no trouble.
I am grateful for this.
19 or 20 I believe. All four at once. It’s one of those cases where the anticipation far exceeds the event.
I had my first two wisdom teeth extracted by a butcher just a few weeks before I was discharged from the service in 1969. It was a horrible experience; I looked like I had a softball implanted in my right cheek, and the pain was awful. I wouldn’t let them take the other ones out after that.
Of course, about 10 years later the wisdoms on my left needed to come out. This time I had a great oral surgeon who put me into the ‘who-cares-twilight- zone’ with some great anesthesia. Surprisingly, when I went in for the surgery, they told me they would be taking 3 teeth out, and I said that was impossible because I already had 2 taken out 10 years before. But, as it turns out, I had 2 on the bottom left where there is normally only one. Lucky me, I had a total of 5 wisdom teeth that were eventually all extracted!
The funny part of the story is that my girlfriend at the time, my wife now, had to pick me up after the surgery because I was loopy from the anesthesia. She drove me to my over to my office so I could pick up a few things. Well, she happens to get very queasy at the sight of blood, and I guess I had some dried blood on my lips and my mouth was packed with gauze. I guess I had also been rambling about my surgery experience.
So, when she parked the car in front of my office, she looked over at me and promptly fainted face first into my lap. I was loopy and was trying to prop her back up while people watching us from the sidewalk weren’t sure what was going on! 
When she came to enough to sit up, I went into my office and got a co-worker to drive us both home. She was lying in the back seat, and I was slumped in the passenger seat still in la-la-land. 
Warning! Post contains unpleasantness!
When I was 21 I was baking my own bread as a regular thing, and using wholemeal flour with wheat-berries. In other words, it had whole grains of wheat in amongst the flour. Now, flour has a long shelf-life, and not a lot of people in Edinburgh use wholmeal bread flour with wheat-berries, so the stuff I was using, was old, in terms of shelf-life, and the wheat had dried out. What I should have done was to sieve the flour, and soak the wheat grains. Or at least, remove them. But I was 21 and knew no better. Those whole-grains were lethal. Literally lethal, as far as my teeth were concerned. One day I bit down hard on a wheat-berry that was like a stone, and cracked one of my wisdom teeth. It didn’t hurt, but there was clearly something wrong.
I went to the dentist. He said “It has to come out”. I made an appointment, for a few days later, and the dentist gave me a local anaesthetic and picked the pieces of tooth out of my gum. Painless. Wonderful. He said “Those other wisdom teeth will have to come out too, but they aren’t even through yet, so we’ll leave that for a while.”
So about a year later, he said “Time for those other wisdom teeth to come out. They’re pushing your other teeth along, and I bet you can feel it.” I could. I was happy for them to go.
Boy, did I get a shock! It wasn’t the repeats of anaesthetic that were so nasty, but I’ll swear the dentist put his knee (if not his foot) against my chin to get a better purchase for pulling the things out. They did not want to come. It took ages. It was painful. Wisdom teeth have long roots and are difficult. I felt like I had been under a Gestapo interrogation after the end of that. Bruised mouth, aching jaw. I don’t recollect the blood, but I wouldn’t recollect that. I was on soups and stews and porridge for a couple of days. But that was all.
I had 6 wisdom teeth removed in August… I was asleep and it didn’t hurt. In fact, I felt fine that day. The next 3-4 days hurt a lot and then it got better.