So bored and swollen.
Enjoy your applesauce and scrambled eggs and replacing dressings every hour. God that sucked
Got nitrous oxide to relax me and then general anesthesia. Felt goofy and lightheaded one second, the next I waking up groggy and -4 teeth an hor later.
As a genetic freak of nature, I never had wisdom teeth
That being said, I hope you have a speedy and safe recovery
Yep, traded myself some decent vision for a lack of painful dental surgery
Oh noes! I am sorry comrade! I have glasses but I am just a little bit nearsighted.
When they got mine out I remember they broke one when they were prying it out. Did you have any break too also did they have to take out any other teeth to get access to them?
Nice also hope you recover well :meow-hug: I remember being hungry when I got mine out.
did you try to ask the cute nurse dude who walked you out to your ride waiting in the parking lot because I did and he was like "you've asked me this like four times and I've already told you that I'm not into men..." :virgil-sad:
I have been making fruit smoothies and scrambled eggs. Mostly they were worried about me burning my mouth because I got this painkiller that numbs everything up.
The yogurt and cottage cheese are critical for Dat protein, you get hungry in like 2 hours with just fruit.
What does impacted mean? Aren't wisdom teeth just a myth created by big dental?
I wish! Impacted means they are still fully or partially lodged in the jaw bone because your jaw doesn't have space for them to erupt. I had one fun one that was actually growing in horizontally so the crown was pushing up against the side of the tooth.
My wife still has all four of her wisdom teeth and in her x-rays they are all doing this. Were they causing you pain?
Mine were partially erupted and were impossible to keep clean so they had started to decay, and the doctor said the decay could spread to other teeth.
human teeth are so fucked man. i hate them. why can't they just work right?
Cus we are a kludge of code that has been running an environmentally dependent optimization protocol for billions of years? We are basically a series of bugs, bandaids and kludge held together by duct tape. Have yo seen knees?
no, I'm pretty sure that they would stop working if I ripped off the skin and muscle to take a look
What should I do with my evening after work? Gonna take the corgi on a long walk in about 2 hours while some edibles kick in, and then will have about 4 hours to kill before the partner gets home/dinner time/bed. Do I watch a zombie movie I've never seen, read some Lovecraft, play vidya, or something else?
Probably the book or video game sounds nice then, depending in which more strikes your fancy.
That's probably what will happen. How are you doing comrade? Mouth feeling alright now that it's been a few hours?
Still numb, no real pain but swollen. I paid 150 bucks extra for this special numbing stuff so that has been doing work. That or they permanently damaged a nerve to my lower jaw. :anxiety:
I had 3/4 out at one time years ago. I was effusively grateful to the dentist and his staff on the way out, thanking them multiple times as my ride tried to get me into the car to go home. They pumped me full of so much anaesthetic I didn't remember anything until I woke up in my own bed, so my experience was "Okay, now count backwards from 10" followed by waking up at home going "what am I doing at home, why is it suddenly dark outside, and why is my face sore and damp?" and then I caught up and remembered that I had my wisdom teeth out.
Anyways, how you doing? You have someone around to take care of you?
Lying on the couch with my mother and sister fussing over me! Doing all right, but my lower jaw is still numb.
I was hyped up because of the stories I'd heard but turns out you just wake up groggy with a numb face and bleeding gums. Also they used both N2O and IV anesthetic to knock me out and I still remember waiting 15+ minutes pre operation like "damn when is this stuff gonna kick in?"
Yeah, I had the same experience basically. It made me feel kina goofy and fuzzy and then bamn it was over an hour later zero memory.
No my dentist has wanted me to get them out for about a year and a half.
