Wisdom Teeth

Slurpees, Haagen Daas, good ice cream, no orange juice or lemonade.

Get some liquid, such as soup, or ice cream. And whatever you'll get, it will have a blood flavor going along with it for the day.

Enjoy the Vicodin. Drooling and day-time television will never be so much fun again!

If, like me, you waited far too long and now have deep pits and exposed nerve endings, you're in for a rough time. I had to eat a lot of soft foods that didn't require much molar action (some of the blander Indian dishes and spaghetti were perfect). I couldn't eat anything that was cold, spicy, or sandwichy unless the painkillers were operating at maximum capacity.

If you do have exposed root endings, do not let them shortchange your prescription. When my medication ran out, I slowly realized minute by minute that the pain was going to be intolerable. I had to borrow hydrocodone from someone else (tylenol wasn't cutting it) until I could get back to the dentist and have them write a new one.

Good luck.

I haven't had my wisdom teeth removed (Been lucky there) but I've had teeth extracted, oral surgery and braces so yeah stick with the soft bland not too cold not too hot foods.

May your recovery be a speedy one.

What's the oldest you can be, and still get wisdom teeth start to come through? Just curious as my dentist told me having wisdom teeth come in would potentially be good for me. I'm 25, so I'm assuming if I haven't got em by now I'm never getting them.

Mine struggled to emerge (only the very top actually broke the skin) for six or seven years before finally giving up and choosing instead to cause low-grade, aggravating jaw pain. I was in my mid-twenties when I finally had them removed.

If yours haven't popped out yet, they're probably impacted, or they don't exist (whichi would be weird).

I only had 2 wisdom teeth. I am proof that evolution exists, and I'm further along than you.

Not necessarily. I'm 34 and mine are just coming in now. They were never impacted, so no one would remove them, and now all that's happening is that they're growing in at a couple of weird angles. When I get dental insurance again I'll probably have them removed (since there's a gap between my last molar and each wisom tooth, which is basically my jaw begging for cavities and infection) but otherwise they haven't been causing any problems.

Of course I say that, and will probably discover that I've got deep-seated infections in my jaw or something as a result.

Wow. I had no idea wisdom teeth could come in so late. I'll have to do some impromptu research.

Or, maybe you have proteus syndrome, or a similar ailment. Have you found yourself slurring "I am not an animal" at random folk?

Or lycanthropy.

The weirdness wouldn't surprise me. An oh so great family trait I inhereted was that I didn't grow the teeth between my front teeth and my kanines, so I've got a bit of a gap. Dentest said if I grew wisdom teeth (no signs of them on the x-ray) it might push everything along.

Friend of mine had 8.

It's a bitch, though, cause whenever someone brings up a wisdom tooth story she can just destroy it.

This friend didn't happen to be a shark, did she?

You did the right thing by having all four of them taken out at the same time. I did that in '98 and was in hell for a week. After nearly five days of not being able to eat anything solid, I went and got a Whopper because I was starving and and could barely chew it. As a result it sat in my stomach like a rock for nearly two days, which gave me nice stomach pain to go with my teeth.

Best advice is use the painkillers as soon as you can and try to sleep like you're on your way to LV426.

Don't tease me, man.

Sorry to hear that. Mine weren't bad (although I'm rather not sensitive to dental pain) so I can't really give much advice. I didn't take anything more than a little advil, and ate a steak the next day after having mine out. Of course, I've had 8 other teeth removed, so I've gotten a little used to it. The fun part is when the oral surgeon climbs on the table next to your shoulder so he can get enough leverage and the right angle to chisel the tooth away from the jaw bone.

Seriously, though, food advice:
Don't eat pretzels or anything else that can get in the hole and poke, that'll hurt. Rice and other very small items can get into the sockets and stay, then you have to rinse them out or pull them out.

Eat foods moderate in temperature - nothing really hot or cold. Smoothies are great. Yogurt if you like it. Campbell's soup-in-hand is totally drinkable and requires no chewing. Warm bread with a layer of cool butter. Bananas. Peanut butter, jelly, nutella. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Berries with cream cheese icing (buy the "whipped" or "fluffy" kind). Fruit tarts (available in the bakery of a nice grocery store; fruit layered on custard in a pie crust).

Did he evolve from a Velociraptor ?

Had the 4 of them removed at the same time. The dentist had to open up to go get them, then proceeded to saw them in half to make them extractable. The little fuckers were stuck there, so the Vietnamese dentist ( in Quebec, it seems that 70% of the Vietnamese population is either a dentist or a pharmacist) started to arm wrestle with the extracting plier, one foot resting on the arm chair for support. A scene worthy of a horror movie. Or a comedy.

It does happen where people never get wisdom teeth because they were never there. Chalk it up to the funky game of genetics.

My only advice...
If you're a smoker, don't. Don't use straws, either. The suction those things cause is BAD, and dry sockets are NOT fun.
Also, drink plenty of water.

I still have one wisdom tooth left(got the other 3 pulled, never went the surgical route), and I'm very hesitant because of the dreaded dry socket I got with my 3rd tooth.

Alternative to the shark and dinosaur jokes: Does she have a pointy head and say she's from France?

I have no idea what wisdom teeth are. Never had a dentist mention them, never had jaw pains, or additional chompers popping out. I'm 27 now, so can I expect this experience later, or did I win the genetic lottery?

Did the surgeon's office give you one of those syringes to irrigate your mouth with salt water after you eat? I found that helped a lot for keeping infection at bay. Don't suck on anything, either. I didn't get them but I'm told dry sockets are a bitch.

You're from Alabama.

I had my top and bottom wisdoms taken out separately in my late 20's. I would have preferred doing all four at once. The irony of my being a big drug addict though is that I had virtually no pain, and thus the doctor only prescribed me Tylonal 3. Man, I wish I had the nerve to lie and say I was in pain to get codeine or vicodin. Also, I was eating solid food after two days which I hear is a rarity. Anyways, here's to a speedy recovery, Lukas.

I had an x-ray taken years ago... i had 2 wisdom teeth either at the top or bottom that showed no signs of moving. The other 2 didn't exist. I'm 36 now and feel nothing there out of the ordinary. I was told that dentists see less and less wisdom teeth. Evolution...

No, I live in Alabama.

I'm from Kentucky.

All the inbreeding had to count for something.

Vicodin and whiskey. Lots.

Painkillers, milkshakes, videogames, and laziness. Losing your wisdom teeth is awesome.

And you can get back to your vices a day later. I smoked and drank beer about 36 hours after the operation and I turned out okay. Henry Hill is right. Abusing painkillers and booze is awesome. Smoke a bowl while you're at it.

Enjoy the ....drying of the bowels....brought on by prolonged Vicodin use. It may be the closest you ever come to experiencing the miracle/pain of childbirth.

Really? My shits are legendary anyway, I never noticed.

Mashed potatoes. I lived on them for three days after having mine taken out. Used extra milk to make them a little less solid than normal, and everything was aces.

I got all four taken out at once. I had all that cotton shit stuffed in my mouth pretty much 24/7 for about a few days after. I just chilled and had movie marathons for the duration. Pain meds were my best friend and then my mom started to question if I became addicted. I then yelled at her telling her I needed them and that the Doctor said to take them every four hours. Fun times. I also got one of those fancy syringes which I used like a bitch for the next 6 weeks since I was paranoid and didn't want any mouth infections.

As for food, since I was knocked up on pain meds I didn't eat much. I drank a lot of water whenever I could (replacing cotton thingies) and I made some nutritional shakes at times to keep the vitamins and nutrients in my system. Mainly it consisted of:

1 cup milk
1 cup yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup orange juice
1 scoop protien powder*

optional obviously but I had some left over.

It was some fun times, except when I woke up after the procedure... my shirt was untucked...

I don't have any, throwback.

You seriously got all four of them removed at the same time?
I've done them one at a time, it only cost when they were being yanked out.

Anyway, nothing like liquid yoghurt and baby cereal. In the same bowl. Yummi and mostly harmless.

I had 3 pulled out (go prime number!) and it wasn't too bad. vicodin really does mess with your digestion. And painkiller properties aside, the high is kinda meh. Whatever they used to put me under was a lot of fun though.

After the surgery, the bottom cavity got infected. And it sucked. Pay closer attention to the teeth that were pulled from your lower jaw. Those fuckers are a lot harder to keep the stitches clean and apparently they're harder to pull out from the surgeon's pov.

I had my 4 wisdom teeth pulled out maybe 8-ish years ago.

Besides the weird headwrap/icepack contraption I wore sometimes, I just took some pain medication the first evening to help out, and I found it got a lot better after the first 24 hours or so.

One thing I started to eat was graham crackers and milk. Just soak a bunch of them in a big glass of milk... mash and stir is all up... yummy graham cracker goop! Can't be beat!

My wife thinks it is disgusting and looks like diarrhetic fecal matter. So there's that. Maybe try not to look at it.

Oh, and I think I had codeine. I only took half of the recommended dose the first time the pain got bad, and it was enough to do the trick. I had no weird side effects with it, but only took it that once.

My co-workers at the time offered to buy the rest off of me when I returned to work.

I had two wisdom teeth pulled about 16 years ago, and had the remaining two pulled about a month ago - just in time for my 40th birthday! Next day we go to my mother-in-laws house for her boyfriend's birthday party, and she pats my cheeks. The pain almost made me slug her in the face.

I do envy you for getting all 4 yanked at once - wish I did. But, I was able to eat food same day (just chewed on the other side of my mouth). Took about a week for the pain and stuff to disappear.

I actually went to a dentist for the first time in over twenty years last month. I've never had a cavity or tooth problems of any kind. The dentist said I have the slowest decay rate of anyone he's ever heard of. I still have two baby teeth, too (I'm 32).

Welcome to my mouth, the fountain of youth.

Going under the pliers tomorrow. Christ, what a waste of a Labor Day weekend. Finally bought myself the Deadwood Season 1 box as a lollipop.

My best friend's an M.D., so maybe I can come out the other side with a nice painkiller dependency. Wear a fake beard and yell at ex-girlfriends about having to go back to the Island.

Fuck, I'm so not looking forward to this.

I had my last two pulled last wednesday. I'm sure the pain will end any time now.

My dentist has been on me for 8 years to remove my wisdom teeth. The top two never broke the skin or bothered me, and the bottom two are impacted, but again, never bothered me. My friend attained the dreaded dry socket during his a couple years ago, and I swore it off.

This last visit to the dentist he told me I had to get the bottom ones removed at the minimum, because I would start feeling the pain very soon. I decided to take the plunge since insurance will cover so much, and I go to the oral surgeon in 10 weeks for my pre-worstexperienceinmylife visit. I'm one of those people that can't handle the cleaning part, so this is going to be excruciating. I have never had so much as a cavity...so I am going to demand being put to sleep.

I am planning on painkillers, whiskey, and sleep to get over it.

Good luck Trav.

You think that's that weird. I think my dentist coverted to judaism just for the jokes.

Weird Dental Story: I had 6 wisdom teeth. My sister had 2.

And you live in North Carolina which is the south. So I guess that pretty much explains that.

(Insert inbred joke here)

I had my top two removed about 12 years ago they were a joke. My regular dentist removed them I played a baseball game that night. Had the bottom two removed bny an oral surgeon about 6 months ago. I was pretty nervous but had IV sedation it was over in about in 2 minutes and the recovery time was pretty easy as well. I was bleeding for about 8 hours after not too much pain at all though and I was back to eating solid foods about 2 days after.

I had mine taken out a few years ago. Wasn't too bad. Woke up and began to hit on the nurse as I had no clue as to what I was doing. My dad just laughed at me and took me home. Unfortunately I also got the dreaded dry socket...But if you do get it, they put in these medicated strips into the socket and all pain goes away. I actually just had an emergency tooth extraction last thursday. The dentist I went to didn't believe in gas, and I couldn't go under because I had eaten something earlier that day. Was the worst experience ever. The sounds that my tooth made as he broke it off was horrible. Now I'm just hoping I don't get dry socket again. The only plus of this whole situation is that I was able to quit smoking. It's been a week and I have absolutely no cravings. So I guess there is a silver lining...as long as no dry socket occurs...

I think it's amazing how differently everybody responds to having them pulled. My older sister was out for like a week, and she was in so much pain I was tempted to take her out back and put her down as a mercy killing. I know people pushing 30 who haven't had a sign of them yet. Personally, I think it's better to have it happen young, when you don't really miss anything during the recovery process. Of course, if you have the power to will these things to emerge, you should do something more with it.

As for me, I had them out a couple weeks before starting college. I noticed one coming through another tooth at dinner, so I called the dentist. Two days later they were out (I only had 2 ready to go, but I asked them to dig in there and remove all 4 so I'd never have to deal with it again). It was the best couple days ever, since I was drugged out of my mind eating soup and ice cream while watching DVDs. Within 5 days of the surgery, I was eating chips and salsa, slurping through a straw, and had yanked my own stitches out. Bitches.