gotta get 5 teef pulled

[Doug627]

I get pain relief from pain killers and nothing else. No euphoria or high. I wouldn't worry about addiction or dependence because you will not get enough long enough to do that. Tylenol levels will be below toxicity levels if taken as prescribed. When taking pain killers, stay away from alcohol. As to being pain free after a few says, that depends on the difficulty removing the teeth. Do not do anything physically strenuous after the removal of the wisdom teeth. You could cause the sites to begin bleeding. Good luck.

 

[coltle6920]

Dentistry has greatly improved over the years.

Can't say the same for my anxiety leading up to a visit.

If you can get me in the chair I'll eventually be okay. At least I no longer have to be strapped down.

 

[Golddollar]

The root canal thread reminded me that I have to schedule with the dental surgeon to get 5, count'em 5, teeth pulled! Been proud of the fact that I still have all wisdom teeth. but after going to the dentist when I broke a tooth last week I was told that while I was getting the broke tooth extracted and the socket readied for an implant post that I ought to get my wisdom teeth pulled. Seems that one is cracked in half, two are causing issues with the healthy molar in front and, well hell, if you're gonna get three of them pulled you might as well get the fourth pulled.

Nobody else has brought up this issue, so I am going to bring it up because of personal experience. A human adult usually* starts out with 32 teeth. You've already had one pulled. Start doing the math regarding how many teeth you'll have left at various stages of the work. Yes, you can get by with less teeth (I'm down to 23 teeth myself and don't look like I have any problem eating), but why shortchange yourself in the number of teeth you have left if you don't really have to. I'm paying out good money to make sure I keep the teeth I have left.

*Edit: One poster said that he apparently didn't have any wisdom teeth to start with.

 

[Dave.357]

Tooth fairy x 5= new gun these days.
That should ease the pain.

 

[Heinz]

Caj, my dentist uses a mix of Tylenol and aspirin. The doses are two hours apart. Normal dose of Ibuprofen, every four hours, interspaced at two hour after, normal dose of Tylenol. It is ok to take double the normal dose of each in the first 24 hours. It worked for me and I cannot do alcohol. Start it right away after you get home BEFORE the pain starts up.
I have no license to practice medicine. This is my personal experience and your mileage my vary. Tylenol studies adverse results related to long term regular daily use.

 

[JohnRippert]

I had issues with my gums for decades. Finally got my wisdom teeth pulled about 15 years ago. Things got some better but I was still having problems on the upper left rear. They pulled that one and I have had great reports ever since. No more issues with gums and deep pockets. It is so easy to get little pockets of infection in those rear teeth. Which can lead to lots of systemic issues body wide if you are not careful.

 

[robvious]

despite what most people that know me think... I actually have a small mouth technically... I had 4 permanent molars pulled before they would put on my braces... and had my 4 wisdom teeth removed in the hospital when I was 14... so it has been too long for me to offer reference for teeth. but other pain, well, that I have covered.. gall bladder only was relieved with morphine.. I was disappointed, because I couldn't get any to go.. it was the first time in years my neuropothy didn't hurt... oh well... ibuprofen is probably your best bet.. but do what the professionals tell you to do...

 

[armadillo]

Look for Advil Dual Action. I used it a few months ago when I had a broken tooth surgically removed.

It is an approved combination of Tylenol and ibuprofen. 2 tablets have 500 mg of Tylenol (equal to 1 extra strength) and 250 mg of ibuprofen (normal dose - up to 600 mg). For me, this works better than a full dose of either.

 

[Wyo]

It might not be as bad as you think. I’ve had root canals, teeth, pulled, implants, fillings, crowns, etc. I’ve spent enough to put dentists’ kids through college and I’ve never needed anything stronger than ibuprofen. None of that has reduced my anxiety about dentists but, at least in my experience, the anticipation has always been worse than the actuality.

 

[Kinman]

I've had a tooth pulled by an Army dentist, he broke it up into four pieces with a cold chisel and hammer, then prescribed Darvon tablets with a severe warning "Do not drink with this stuff." I was stationed in Germany at the time, he put me on 48hrs. bedrest, I stopped at the local beer joint and bought a flat of 1/2liter Henniger Brau, popped two Darvon and drank beer til I passed out. Woke up in pain, popped two more and drank til I passed out. Showed up for reveille Monday morning fit as a fiddle with a slightly sore socket and light diet for a couple days. I've had a number of root canals and an implant, the Opioids work just fine for me, use them as prescribed and get rid of those left over. I don't care what they tell you, just flush them down the toilet. You can feel safe just tossing them out the window of your car as you pass Bayou Teche, just the tablets man...Implants are great by the way, a long drawn out process made even longer by a great technician that also used cadaver bone to further strengthen and build up the area around the implant before attaching the tooth...no problems.

 

[LVSteve]

In years past I had three wisdom teeth out with little or no discomfort. Number four one was horizontal, highly impacted and nobody wanted to touch it. Alas, a needle from another dentist dragged some bacteria down there and it had to come out. This involved a repeat of Project Ploughshare and my face came up like the elephant man. I might have taken one oxy just to get me off to sleep the first night, I cannot recall. Mind you, my wife reckons I have a very high tolerance of pain for a man, a comment repeated by doctors who have stuck me in the past.

If you follow the instructions, Tylenol toxicity simply isn't an issue. As for opioids, my only real issue is that it puts my digestive system to sleep if I take it more than twice a day. Ibuprofen works pretty well for tooth pain, but make sure to get the full prescription strength, or double up on the the OTC "baby" pills as my wife calls them..

 

[yaktamer]

See? If you hadn't wasted all that time and money going to law school and joined the service, the military would have gladly yanked those wisdom puppies out for free!

After the Army butchered me taking out two, I refused to see a dentitst for ten years.

 

[TX-Dennis]

The only teeth I've had out so far were wisdom teeth. I was, I think, 17 at the time. The oral surgeon wanted to do it in the hospital under general anesthesia as was common practice at the time. I, being deathly afraid of hospitals at that age, insisted on having it done in the office with local anesthesia. That meant I had to have it done in two goes about a month apart.

Boy, was that a mistake. The worst part during the operation was the horrendous sound as he broke the "impacted" teeth up into small bits to extract them. They couldn't be pulled straight out since they were laying on their sides and pressing against the rear molars. The sound of those teeth being broken up right by your ear is horrendous. The pain and swelling was horrible for a few days. Then I had to go back the next month and get the other side done.

It wasn't the smartest choice, and everyone from the doc to my friends to my parents, tried to talk me out of it. I wouldn't budge and suffered the consequences of my recalcitrance.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Had my wisdoms taken out about 1953. All the rest followed years later.

 

[ACORN]

I had 4 wisdoms pulled and ate steak that night.
Easy peasy.

 

[Onomea]

Okay, Gary, I'm speaking now from firsthand experience. ... Don't know how your weight is, but...hey, it might be worth thinking about.

Chip, that's a classic! Cookie's doc oughta get Caje set up right lickety-split!

 

[jeffrefrig]

I've said this before: they make pain pills for a reason. AND, if you read the bottle, it tells you how many and how often to take them. If you're lucky they may give you 10-15. That's not enough to put you at the intersection of Bigelow Blvd. and Herron Avenue with a cardboard sign stating how hungry you are! I had a wisdom tooth chiseled out maybe a year or so back. That guy only gave me 5 #5/325 Vicodin. Mouth was swelled up like a golf ball and he wouldn't give me any more. It was like a kidney stone in my mouth it hurt so bad. I called the dentist that referred him; no help there! I finally called my own doctor. She refilled it for me. She knows me well and wouldn't give me something that would hurt me. She saw my mouth how swelled up it was a week after the operation. At least there wasn't anything left over inside my tooth hole. I have one wisdom tooth left. It will be a different surgeon next time.

 

[johngalt]

Never have a major medical procedure done on a Friday. If you have issues the next day and need to see the doc, he will be closed and you will be stuck with either the emergency room or suffer all weekend.

 

[Narragansett]

Don't do a Friday for the reason by johngalt. You are going to ruin a long weekend.

Forget oxy. Most dentists will give you Tylenol 3 with codeine. You want Tylenol 4 with twice the codeine.

A picture( second day, ) at full swelling is required for follow up sympathy.

 

[WR Moore]

Geez, our large animal vets do house calls. The latest have been a couple of very competent and quite attractive young ladies. Even better, they have a contraption that holds the critters head up so I don't have to do it. Nothing like being a horse support post for several hours on a hot summer day

Moving on to human dentistry, I split one of my front upper incisors vertically and the tooth removal was no muss, no fuss. If you're doing implants to replace any teeth, one of the jaws has quite dense bone and implants are easily installed. OTOH, frequently tooth replacement in the other jaw requires bone grafts to be able to hold the implant and the bone graft takes some time to take hold. In my case, that meant a place holder to keep the other teeth from moving and no foods I needed to sever for a few months.