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  • #16
    That reminds me, I have to call my dentist and make an appointment. It's gotta be about two years since my last one. Have to find out first if he's still practising, though: per the State Office of the Professions website he's been licensed since 1952. I have no idea how old he is except that he's my grandfather's contemporary, and my grandfather died a few years ago at 96... he's still a great dentist, or was as of my last appointment, and he knows me since 1973 and is willing to put up with my needle-phobia. (Rather get drilled on without novocaine than take the needle. Yes, it's illogical.)

    As to the OP, I agree that they must be getting desperate, if they're going through 3-year-old records to find people to come in.

    As far as wisdom teeth... I had one pulled. It was coming in sideways, and stuck behind the next tooth over as well, and it kept getting infected. Dentist was reluctant to pull it until it came all the way in, and I kept insisting it never would. Finally he was on vacation and I went to his dentist, who agreed that it was time to pull it, once the latest infection went away.

    Another failed to develop altogether. (Dentist looks at my Xrays once and asked when I had that one pulled; I told him, "Don't you think you'd know about it if I had?") One's still buried somewhere in my jaw, and the fourth seems to have grown in normally, although it took another 20 years from that point until the gum above it finally opened up enough to let it see the world. When I had the other pulled, I asked the oral surgeon if that one should be extracted as well, and his opinion was that as long as there was still at least a part of another tooth above it to bang against, there wasn't any reason to pull it. So I still have one out of four.

    My brother went to study in Israel for a couple years, and had his wisdom teeth out there. The oral surgeon in Jerusalem that everyone went to had a rather unfortunate name: Dr Schochet. (This means "slaughterer" in Hebrew... not the best name for a surgeon of any specialization...)

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    • #17
      I have two daughters with wisdom teeth coming in, one is 17 and one is 20 so this is a dillema that's happening right now. I'm hoping they don't need them pulled frankly, even with insurance it could be spendy.

      As for pulling teeth cause it's cheaper...I've done that with a molar way in the back. You can't tell I had a tooth pulled and it was cheaper and less painful than a root canal, which I have had done as well. Took me forever to pay that off.
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      • #18
        sometimes you have to say "what part of 'no' don't you understand"

        rude yes but, sometimes it's a necessity

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        • #19
          I had two wisdom teeth come in perfectly sideways, and two come in impacted. The dentist took all four out because the two 'good' ones were crowding the jaw. He didn't do a great job, though...I got too much sleepy gas and had to be walked to the car by my mother an assistant, then into the house by my mother and brother. (Mom just left me in the car while she went to the pharmacist for my meds.) I woke up in the middle of the night because the side of my face was wet and sticky--I was sleeping in a puddle of my own blood! And the process of cleaning myself up involved spitting out bone or tooth chips, too. That was NOT a fun night.

          My siblings all had theirs come in straight, except my youngest brother who hasn't gotten his yet. I was SO jealous.
          It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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          • #20
            To my knowledge my wisdom teeth have not ever had any issues. Never even felt them when they came in, and they are not crooked or anything. Dentist has never said "Well you have impacted (or crooked, or etc) wisdom teeth". If they don't bother me, they are staying where they are .
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            • #21
              All of mine were coming in the wrong way enough that the dentist recommended getting them removed to avoid problems. I was heading off to college in a month and was going to be halfway across the country from my dentist and insurance, so we scheduled the surgery for a Friday. I had a friend who had two of her four out while still awake, and she hated it, so I asked to be put under.

              That was the weekend I learned that general anesthesia and I don't play well together.

              I remember counting backwards while they got ready, and then the next thing I knew a nurse was patting me awake and escorting me to a recovery room. I rested for a good while in there before they were brave enough to escort me out to my mom's car. I lost my lunch in the parking lot and had to go back in to rest some more before we could go home, and I spent the next three days so out of it that I only woke up to eat a bite of yogurt, do the salt water rinse, or roll over and switch which side of my face the ice pack was on.

              And apparently it really is the anesthesia that does it because they had to put me under for my emergency C-section with my first child. They didn't even have time for an epidural. Just knocked me out and took out the baby. It took three days to lose the narcolepsy then, too.
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              • #22
                ^Wow. That sounds awful. I'm starting to feel glad that I don't have a bad reaction toward general anesthesia...yet...I've just jinxed myself, haven't I.

                I actually got my wisdom teeth out the week before I started college. They weren't very...gentle, so I actually went to my first day with my face still swollen and yellow-purple bruises along my jawline. I looked horrible.
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                • #23
                  Quoth Eisa View Post
                  ^Wow. That sounds awful. I'm starting to feel glad that I don't have a bad reaction toward general anesthesia...yet...I've just jinxed myself, haven't I.
                  Probably. I have that effect on people.

                  I've just learned to avoid general anesthesia where possible. Doing VBAC for my second child (normal delivery as opposed to C-section, let alone emergency) was bliss in terms of recovery. Delivery was worse, but I was awake for my whole hospital stay. Bliss, I tell you. And if I ever have to be put under for a surgery in the future, I know to warn Hubby that I'll be nigh-unto-comatose for about three days after.
                  "Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
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                  • #24
                    still has her wisdom teeth, along with crossbite, and they aren't causing any serious damage but my teeth are kind of squished together to where i have buck teeth. yeah four years of braces gone to waste my teeth went back to the way they were after all that what a shame. (my own fault)
                    and i still refuse to get mine removed out of fear and the whole recovery process....*cringe*
                    also due to Kogarashi's issue with anesthesia, not so much out for a while but headaches and bad bad nausea and inability to function for a good day (can't really get out of bed without soreness like i haven't moved or moved to the point it aches.

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                    • #25
                      I've had a lot of dental work (including one surgery, ten extractions and braces for 11 years)

                      All of my wisdom teeth have come in twisted 90 degrees and "partially erupted" or in other words, not fully through due to impaction. Only one has had to be removed, this was because of it getting repeatedly infected when food particles got under the flap of gum tissue covering part of it, no matter how hard you scrub, if they're deep enough they aren't coming back out!

                      I got dry socket due to the location and weird angle of the tooth. Such a horrible pain, i spent most of the next two weeks off my head on painkillers. I spoke with my parents on the phone on roughly day 4, i sounded so rough and out of it that they made a trip to pick me up so that i could stay with them while i recovered.

                      And yet, if the other 3 ever give me trouble, i'll have them removed even though i know what it could result in.

                      Btw, my wisdom tooth extraction was done via local anaesthetic. We realised i was going to have a problem with dry socket when twenty minutes after the extraction and only thirty minutes after the injection, i was already in enough pain to ask for painkillers. I got a pre-emptive prescription for painkillers and antibiotics. Sensible dentist.

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                      • #26
                        You guys were anesthetized? They just shot me full of Novocaine and ripped them out. I never had any problems with them, it was more of "Hey while were in here, want us to take these out just in case?"
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                        • #27
                          They gave me the choice of general or local anesthesia, but yeah...they had to cut into my gums and extract them, they couldn't just pull them out.
                          "And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride!"
                          "Hallo elskan min/Trui ekki hvad timinn lidur"
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                          • #28
                            Quoth Whiskey View Post
                            You guys were anesthetized? They just shot me full of Novocaine and ripped them out. I never had any problems with them, it was more of "Hey while were in here, want us to take these out just in case?"
                            There is no way that I would ever be able to have any serious dental work done under local. If it can't be done in under 30 minutes, I'm screwed, 'cause that's when the novocaine wears off, and no amount of further injections will do a thing to extend that time limit. And since all of my teeth are quite firmly anchored in my jaw, when I finally do go in to have what's left of my wisdom teeth extracted, they're going to have to work to get 'em out.

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                            • #29
                              I threw a conniption also over the fact that my dental insurance does not cover laughing gas or novacaine. So it's like ok, you want $300 on the spot, and if I want to save money, I just have to sit back and take the pain? Eff that. They don't hurt and there's plenty of room back there. They can stay until I can afford that.

                              Honestly, that is just ridiculous. That's like not covering anasthesia for surgery.
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                              • #30
                                I had mine out in college with just local anesthetic and laughing gas (THAT'S some good stuff, too.). The bottom two were half-way in, so they had to be drilled out, and the top two were just cut out. I was stupid enough to go out to lunch right after. Not only did my mouth not work quite right because the anesthetic hadn't worn off all the way yet, but I have younger siblings who thought it was hilarious.
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