Both my bottom wisdom teeth were this impacted and my dentist was screaming to take them out now. I didn't and for some reason they decided to both just rotate and ended up fine.
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My dad's are like that and he went to a dentist a few years ago that told him "we need to get those out of there". My dad was just like "why? They haven't a problem til now and I'm almost 70." He did not go back to that guy.
Damn. I went to the dentist for the first time ever (37) and my dentist was cool about it. She said if they've never bothered me, who gives a shit at this point. Fixed my cavities and told me I was awesome.
Same, they told me I would need oral surgery and to break my jaw open. No thanks. Occasionally they twinge and hurt, but I suppose I haven't died yet.
"Impacted" sounds like unbearable pain. No? Got a good story about mine. Bear with me.
Got my top 2 out because they erupted sideways, actually cut my finger, thought it was a stuck Dorito. Shit had to go. Got the bottom 2 while I was under general.
First time completely under. Dentist said I wasn't going home until my gf could drive me. Great! Woke at home with her hovering over my face. She was a little bitchy when I asked how I got home.
"You don't remember that? Nothing?!"
I had refused to leave the comfy office bed, fought and cussed. Whole waiting room heard:
"FUCK YOU! I'll take you back there and do to you what they did to me!"
Jesus. (Nurses right about now: Yep. And I know OP is a guy.)
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Loved when my impacted wisdom tooth that looked closely to that exploded in my jaw in 2019. Great times. Real glad my surgery was in February of 2020.
Do they still give you an almost 2 week script of hydrocodone after? I remember watching a lot of magic school bus high as fuck when I was younger for a few days after.
You mean the dentist who, when seeing me, told me immediately they don't prescribe narcotics at that office and then immediately looked guilty when I said that's fine, I just wanted a scrip for the big ibuprofen because taking 4 of the small ones at a time made my stomach sick?
No. No they did not.
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The dentist slipped when pulling one of my non-impacted teeth and hit me in the back of the throat with his whole body weight. He prescribed me 10 days of hydrocodone and when I called back and said the default dose still left me with a sore throat he called me in another 10 days of a higher dose.
Needless to say, my throat didn't hurt anymore and I played WoW a lot (~2007)
Good ole days haha. Doctors totally overestimate the addiction potential of a short term prescription and underprescribe now.
I was told I could go to school the day after my wisdom teeth were taken. I took my dose of hydrocodone before heading to school and have no memory of that day at all. I never took the rest. Somehow I had no pain whatsoever after my wisdom teeth were removed and it was almost as if it never happened. Other people I know needed to take a week off.
Same. I barely even took Tylenol and was fine
When I got all 4 out at once, they gave me 4 pills, each is supposed to last about 12 hours. I had to do the math on how to efficiently take them on a longer schedule than once every 12 hours to minimize the pain spike when I switched to ibruprofin.
I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.
I lucked out even more by not having any wisdom teeth at all.
When did they break out? You better take excellent care of them or they'll rot and have to be pulled anyways
A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.
I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.
Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.
Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.
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Had this surgery done this march for two teeth... 2 weeks on painkillers. Here in Denmark all I got was store bought painkillers... ibuprofen and paracetamol.. and a bill for 8600DKK ~1000$
0/10 - will not recommend
StuNdent? Can’t people spell check?
Typos in meme captions or post titles really trigger me.
It’s okay to make mistakes in comments or posts, but ffs check your titles and captions at least.
Graduates, sure, but stundents are still learning
Don’t you mean “granduates“?
can someone explain this? I don't get it
I had that. The 8th (wisdom) tooth grows in that position. At first there's no problem but it starts to create pressure on all other teeth and eventually starts to hurt as it's pushing against the 7th tooth. The solution is to take out wisdom teeth, which is a quite common procedure any way. Don't know what the "infinite money" is about. Maybe this is some USA thing.
Costs like a thousand dollars or more to get them taken out here
It only cost me $15.8 to take the both of them out where I live. (I only had two for some reason)
Seriously?? Where the hell is that?
Probably because more people keep getting born with wisdom teeth to take out
It took a while for me but after some thinking I believe it is a joke for Americans, for whom dental care is infamously expensive. Probably this type of wisdom tooth causes problems so frequently that a dentist could pretty much live off a single patient with this condition, that'd be the joke. Full disclaimer I'm not American, not a dentist and my wisdom teeth also not like that
Nah, just a joke about there always being more to remove as it becomes problematic for a new person
I suppose the idea is that most people have this set of teeth and for many it becomes problematic at some point. Removing "wisdom teeth" isn't the cheapest stomatological procedure.