Agile Tortoise
Greg Pierce’s blog
« Lightning news DeKlarit RAD »
Wisdom squandered
I had one of my wisdom teeth removed this morning. Seemed to go OK, but the local is only now wearing off, so I’m not sure how much it’s going to hurt. This one was partially grown in, and, being difficult to clean, had developed a cavity. They were trying to convince me to have another out on the other side at the same time, but I’m not so sure about it. It’s totally impacted, in fact the tooth is totally horizontal down below the skin and I just can’t imagine getting it out so I think I’ll wait.
June 24th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
On 24-Jun-05, at 11:28 AM, Greg Pierce wrote:
> I had one of my wisdom teeth removed this morning. Seemed to go
> OK, but the local is only now wearing off, so I’m not sure how much
> it’s going to hurt. This one was partially grown in, and, being
> difficult to clean, had developed a cavity. They were trying to
> convince me to have another out on the other side at the same time,
> but I’m not so sure about it. It’s totally impacted, in fact the
> tooth is totally horizontal down below the skin and I just can’t
> imagine getting it out so I think I’ll wait.
I just had that done in May, exact same situation (the one you didn’t
get removed, that is). They get it out, believe me.
How they did it…. (I think)
They slice open your gums, drill the tooth so they can break it into
a few pieces, pull out the pieces, put in some horrible tasting
packing stuff so you don’t get dry socket, then stitch up your gums.
I’ve had two removed this way. It’s no fun but it works. If you
have pain from that impacted one get it removed.
Best of luck with the recovery… drink lots of milkshakes!
Jim
June 24th, 2005 at 12:50 pm
On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Jim Roepcke wrote:
> I’ve had two removed this way. It’s no fun but it works. If you
> have pain from that impacted one get it removed.
Well, that’s just it, I have no pain from it. When and if I do, I’ll
get it removed, but for now, I think I’ll let sleeping teeth lay.
> Best of luck with the recovery… drink lots of milkshakes!
The pain killer is kicking in. I think I’ll be napping pretty soon,
but I’ll keep that in mind for later!
g.
June 24th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
On 24-Jun-05, at 11:50 AM, Greg Pierce wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Jim Roepcke wrote:
>
>> I’ve had two removed this way. It’s no fun but it works. If you
>> have pain from that impacted one get it removed.
>>
>
> Well, that’s just it, I have no pain from it. When and if I do, I’ll
> get it removed, but for now, I think I’ll let sleeping teeth lay.
Heck yeah!
> The pain killer is kicking in. I think I’ll be napping pretty soon,
> but I’ll keep that in mind for later!
The first time they gave me Tylenol 3, it was the strongest
painkiller I’d ever had. (I usually refuse to take pills when I’m in
pain but after a few days of anguish I finally conceded ;-)) The
second time all I got was ibuprofen… didn’t do much unfortunately.
I hope you have something good.
Jim
June 27th, 2005 at 8:59 am
Just to followup on my tooth, it was amazingly painless. I had dull pain on Friday from it, but by Saturday I really had no pain at all. It sort of bothered me yesterday, but it wasn’t pain, it was more about the weird feeling of that part of my mouth being a different shape.