View Full Version : I always wondered why I only got 3 wisdom teeth...
Jhani Vandolay
10-07-03, 01:15 PM
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EZ_Ten Evenings
10-07-03, 01:28 PM
All four of mine are like that, except theyre about half a centimeter in my gums and angled harder into the next tooth. Perfectly sideways in my head
FREAK!!!!!
just keep thinking about the good drugs you will get after they rip that puppy out....
EZ_Ciba
10-07-03, 01:43 PM
You can have one of mine, that'd make 8 between the two of us.
Caowyth
10-07-03, 01:45 PM
I've just been told that my top two wisdom teeth (Which were removed 10 years ago) have decided to move back into my mouth.
And impacted wisdom teeth suck.
Just thinking about that makes me want the gas.
Well, that and everything else. "They will come back, come back again, as long as the Red Earth rolls. He never wasted a tree or a leaf, why should he squander souls?"
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EZ_Myrkskog
10-07-03, 02:21 PM
Looks almost like my wisdom teeth were. Mine were coming in at a 45 degree angle, had to have them "cut" out.
EZ_Ciba
10-07-03, 03:23 PM
Crappy Caowyth, you getting them removed? Who's your oral surgeon/dentist?
EZ_pulid
10-07-03, 04:02 PM
If you got that removed, wouldn't you have a gigantic hole in your mouth? Isn't that a slight problem?
Just got back to the dentist myself.
All of my wisdom teeth came in perfect, but right now they say 2 of them have cavitys that might go down to the root. They've given me the option of going with a root canal, or having them removed, of course the thing with that is if i have the two removed (opsosite sides of the mouth, i'll have to have the two others removed)
Sooo the question is, if you had the choice 2 root canals (possibly) or 4 teeth pulled. I've never had a tooth pulled so i'm not sure what the experience wiould be like. Tell me which one hurts less
Btw, i hate dentists arrrgh
EZ_Gyorg
10-07-03, 04:29 PM
Mine weren't bad comin out. IV sedative, (not unconsious but no memory if the situation). Pain for a few hours. Only took a single asprin 3 or codine or whatever they gave me. No complications.
EZ_Ciba
10-07-03, 05:22 PM
If yours aren't impacted, it shouldn't hurt much to have them pulled.
DarthEnderX
10-07-03, 08:50 PM
Ahh wisdome teeth.
Soon our children will stop having them altogether.
Its evolution people. "Classes are not that out of balance -AbsorEQ"
EZ_Northerner
10-07-03, 09:44 PM
Love the jpg title
Ah, I had a pair that looked something like that on X-Ray once but got all four yanked before my insurance expired. Get gassed if you can though, friends who have stayed awake through the procedure seemed to regret it. Celeris Tujimson
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All 4 of my wisdom teeth looked like that... I was having massive headaches, couldn't figure out why... on a trip to a new dentist they did a new X-ray and voila. Got knocked out and had them all extracted... they had some issues with a couple and had to hack them to pieces with a little chisel to get them out. Months later, I started having mouth pain, went back to the doc... they had missed several pieces which were working their way out of my gums. Got local and they pulled the pieces out one at a time... it made me glad I had been knocked out for the first real extraction.
So anyways, have fun!!
EZ_Gaav
10-08-03, 07:34 AM
The procedure really is no big deal as long as you make sure you get put under, and the surgeon is good.
I just had mine taken out less than a month ago and it was no big deal (1 impacted, 1 crooked, 2 normal) The first day sucked, but only because I was pretty dopd up and numb. Once the novacain wore I was a tiny bit tender but that was it.
And yes you do have big holes back there, which will fill in in a month or two. Ive got this great little plastic syringe I carry with me for whenever I eat, Stick it back in there CAREFULLY (if you poke the blood clot/nerve it will hurt) and spray some water to shove all the food out.
The impacted one was a little sorer than the others, but it healed the best. I wish they had used the same techique on all 4. They sort of cut the @#%$ away, then removed it, then pulled the gum back over and stitched it up. Its completely healed and theres no food hole (theres a piece of bacon stuck in the food hole right now btw, so Im gonna take off to handle it)
Poor Jhani.
Mine were the same way. All four. The surgery is easy... out cold. If your fortunate, recovery should be brief. The only thing that sucked for me was I found codeine absolutely unbearable so I lived with the throbbing pain for a couple of days.
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EZ_Kaail Lasra
10-08-03, 08:19 AM
When are your wisdom teeth sposed to start causing problems/needed to be taken out? I'm 20, and I'm not seeing anything yet.
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Dragynphyre
10-08-03, 08:25 AM
They said they only could see 3 on my x-rays, and that's all they pulled - hopefully they don't find #4 down in my appendix or something (Back In Black)
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When are your wisdom teeth sposed to start causing problems/needed to be taken out? I'm 20, and I'm not seeing anything yet.
It's quite possible that they will never give you problems. In the instances mentioned above they start to crowd the rest of your teeth and cause problems with your bite. I think I was like 19 when I had mine removed.
Edit: and in my case, the dentist discovered them via xrays long before I knew they were there. Edited by: Nocte at: 10/8/03 9:13 am
EZ_Platinu
10-08-03, 09:17 AM
What makes a tooth 'impacted'? I've never heard of that.
I only had 3 wisdom teeth, had the odd one taken out in Boot Camp once, still have the other 2.
I know one guy who had a root of his wisdom tooth go down and hook around his jaw bone. He was out of duty for a week from having it removed.
Simple evolution. Our jaws are getting smaller, while our old herbivore teeth still haven't stopped coming in. They grow in sideways because the tooth surface from which they develop is now part of the jaw that pitches up to the "hinge." That's the way the dentist explained it to me anyway.
Weird stuff like the whole appendix thing.
Caowyth
10-08-03, 11:15 AM
Ciba- My surgeon is Dr. Crinzi in Redmond. I'll probably get them removed.... again.
EZ_NegBB
10-08-03, 11:45 AM
According to xrays, I only have two, and they are on the top.
EZ_Ciba
10-08-03, 02:44 PM
Had some friends who used him. I got four of mine out with Johnston in Issaquah.
EZ_Myrkskog
10-08-03, 09:27 PM
A tip for anyone who gets them cut out and ends up with the big holes in their cheeks. You will get the plastic syringe someone mentioned earlier which you use salted water to clean food out.
DO NOT EAT GROUND BEEF. Cleaning ground beef out of your sockets with that syringe is the nastiest thing I have ever done.