Hey! I mentioned to several that I was in for a week o’ pain, what with:
Three fillings, a crown start, and 2 root canals last Friday, and
Two root canals with 7 roots total yesterday, and
This morning I had my Wisdom teeth out.
The wisdom tooth extraction was incredibly simple. Although I normally refuse to see male dentists, this one was kind, sharp, professional, humorous, and very accomodating to me. As were his surgical assistants. It was almost a fun experience, if you can believe that!
It took exactly 7 minutes since the time he started elevating to the time all teeth were out (and I got to keep them too!). That’s right - 7 minutes. I felt absolutely no pain, even though I was just under a local. I’ve been at work now for a couple hours, and am doing great - no painkillers yet (although I have a big-ol prescription for Darvocet I will fill later…)
If I can just avoid the Dreaded Dry Sockets, this will have been a kick-ass dental week - almost no pain through most all of the procedures, and all the hardest work done!
Anthracite, if you do in fact end up needing some pain killers, I highly reccomend Cognac (or Brandy). Since you had major work on your teeth I’ll stay away from any food reccomendations, but a full tummy and a few warm Cognacs will do the trick for any annoying pain. If you can afford it try the XO variety - very smooth, and I can safely say the last time I had three after dinner, ‘I was feelin’ no pain’.
I don’t know how they do it. My son had 2 removed in less than 15 minutes, start of IV to “Mom, come on back”. He did fine. Just don’t use a straw, or smoke (for any number of reasons), no suction for the next few days, maybe a week.
I recommend warm rice pudding… great comfort food!
Excellent news! They had to practically get mine out with a jackhammer. Out of curiosity why all the dental work at once? Seems like an amazing amount of work in so short a time. Wouldn’t they normally space this out a little bit?
Well, the procedures didn’t interfere with each other, and I needed to squeeze them in between some business trips I have. Otherwise, I would have spaced them out more. Now I’m glad I didn’t - they’re all over with.
So Anthracite…can we now call you a fool since your wisdom has been pulled?
I remember having mine yanked, I recover from anastetics(sp) very quickly, about half way through I started to let him know I was feeling pain and he had to zap me again. Also, as B. Cosby said in one routine, it is very disconcerting to see and smell smoke coming from your mouth…
Personally, this is one area I’d like to hurt my sister over…she is one of those lucky mutants that doesn’t have any wisdom teeth at all, never did.
