# "Yes, this is Dr. Fear calling to remind you of your oral surgery Friday..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640 "2007-01-19T22:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chasing\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@Chasing\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chasing_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/21 "2007-01-21T08:18:04Z")
Don’t get knocked out, man! Save the money and just have them numb your mouth. It’ll toughen you up. I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out about 6 months ago and it was a piece of cake. I just relaxed on the operating table and opened my mouth wide open. It didn’t hurt…after the first four anesthetic injections into my gums. You can still feel the general pulling and prying but it isn’t sharp pain. It saved me a couple of hundred of dollars compared to being gassed. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/22 "2007-01-21T16:26:19Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] (Incidentally, **olive** , I had mine out just recently and it was a chocolate fudge, triple-layer, strawberries-and-cream on top piece of cake. I mean it. You’ll be fine. ;)) [/QUOTE] Same here. I had my wisdom teeth removed last April under local anesthesia, and it wasn’t that bad. You may have some pain and swelling for a couple of days, but it’s nothing unbearable (I was able to manage the pain with regular old Tylenol). Good luck, **olive**! Let us know how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/23 "2007-01-21T22:40:24Z")
“A librarian named Bookman? That’s like having an ice cream man named Cohen.” ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/24 "2007-01-22T01:11:17Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] My grandfather once found himself seated at a bar association lunch with Attys. Dilly, Dally, Doolittle and Stahl. They agreed they should establish a law firm together. 😃 [/QUOTE] And if you don’t get any results, you can’t claim they didn’t warn you. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/25 "2007-01-22T01:45:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Good luck, olive! Let us know how it goes. Thanks for the support, guys. 5 days to go… and they are putting me right out. He said it’d be best, otherwise 8 shots in the mouth to get all four of them out. I’m not as squirmy about needles as some are, but I think I’d rather just not remember anything. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/26 "2007-01-22T03:00:05Z")
We’ve got a doctor’s office in town with “Blood, Butcher, and Payne”. Still can’t believe that one. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640/27 "2007-01-22T03:15:19Z")
I had one wisdom tooth removed when I was in high school with just local anesthesia, and to this day I regret it – the tooth was very stubborn, and the dentist had to wiggle it for so long that the bone was bruised and sore for days afterwards; and of course I felt all the pressure and knew what was coming, which probably didn’t help any. So unconsciousness is definitely the preferred way to go! Good luck, and I hope your extractions are as easy as the last tooth I had out – it popped out practically as soon as the dentist touched it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-this-is-dr-fear-calling-to-remind-you-of-your-oral-surgery-friday/388640.md?page=1)