# Wisdom teeth extraction:  calling dentists and patients

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisdom-teeth-extraction-calling-dentists-and-patients/246863>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 24, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisdom-teeth-extraction-calling-dentists-and-patients/246863 "2004-05-24T19:45:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisdom-teeth-extraction-calling-dentists-and-patients/246863/21 "2004-06-04T17:43:40Z")

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> [@Sattua](#):
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> Be careful. I, too, was on top of the world the day I had my wisdoms out–it was the next two days that were hard.

Yes - after I wrote that post, the pain _really_ started to set in - thank god for co-proxamol!

I spent a really terrible night, dribbling bloody saliva into my pillow, spending most of it only semi-asleep or awake from pain. The next day wasn’t nearly as bad. Since then, there have been some incidents of higher pain/bad throbbing/aching, but nothing as intense as that first day.

No swelling, thank god. No cheeks (or cheek rather) like Marlene Dietrich either ☹

A week on and I am still getting some soreness, the hardest thing is keeping the stupid things clean. They are still these big hollow pits - the gum appears to be slowly closing over - but food gets in no matter what I do and just goes putrid. I am endlessly trying to swill it out, remove it with a cotton bud or a toothpick - if I don’t this evil, evil taste starts to trickle into my mouth and I am frightened of it going septic.

By the way: clove oil has been an excellent remedy. I got sick of painkillers - the co-proxamol started to make me high and tripped out, and the panadeine (paracetamol codeine) just pissed me off too, I prefer feeling lucid. Clove oil rubbed around the outside of the gum-hole with a cotton wool bud is a real lifesaver.

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