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Frank Gallagher

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2005, 05:30:00 am »
When I was a lad we used to pull them out ourselves, or if you were a puff, have big Eddie from Moss Side kick them out for you.....dentist my arse!!!!  ;)  
 
 Still got em....never gave me a problem. Why do we even have them? Is it from our primate days or are they related to our appendix seeing as that thing has no use either.

Sir HC

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« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2005, 09:45:00 am »
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Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  When I was a lad we used to pull them out ourselves, or if you were a puff, have big Eddie from Moss Side kick them out for you.....dentist my arse!!!!   ;)  
 
 Still got em....never gave me a problem. Why do we even have them? Is it from our primate days or are they related to our appendix seeing as that thing has no use either.
Think the original idea was that you would have lost a bunch of teeth by this point in your life so some more in the back to gnaw with coming in later in life would be useful to keep you living longer.
 
 That is all I can guess, maybe the Straight Dope has the straight dope.

Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2005, 09:48:00 am »
Wait until y'all get to be an old man like me andd you have to start getting crowns. That's when the real fun starts.

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« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2005, 11:08:00 am »
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  Wait until y'all get to be an old man like me andd you have to start getting crowns. That's when the real fun starts.
i have two.  i'm old.  i like it when that tasting smoke arises from your mouth as they are grinding away at your teeth, and the nurse calls you "honey" way too many times.

Frank Gallagher

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2005, 05:19:00 am »
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  Wait until y'all get to be an old man like me andd you have to start getting crowns. That's when the real fun starts.
FOUR root canals done at the same sitting!!! Not having ever had any before I just told him to go ahead and knock em all out together. I assumed having survived Royal Navy dentists this would be a breeze. Actually, a root canal is more discomfort than pain. I do hate that rubber dam thing they shove in your pie-hole to stop you drowning or whatever it's for. Evidently my time spent as a diver in the Navy 'effd up the old teeth in that way, something to do with constant change of pressure on a regular basis. Either that or the dentist had a boat payment overdue!!!!   ;)

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2005, 09:29:00 pm »
haha, well, it finally stopped bleeding last night...and only one of the four hurt...and swoll...i look like sloth from the goonies  :)

Sir HC

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2005, 07:08:00 am »
Makes watching Fight Club better when they explain how much blood you can swallow before puking...

chaz

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2005, 08:47:00 am »
Yeah mine were impacted too and basically they just smash them to bits with a hammer or tool of some sort (like hitman said) and then pluck out the chunks from your gums and jaw.  Nice.  I was pretty fucked up for a few days.  Doc gave me meds but it just didn't quite do the trick.  I was 15 or so and good pain meds were given out very conservatively in my house growing up....it sucked.

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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2005, 09:26:00 am »
I remember my mother driving me home and the bouncing of the car was enough to make me scream.  I was miserable for about 3 days.  After a week, all was well.  I believe three were impacted.  Not one of my favorite times.

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2005, 08:03:00 pm »
i guess if they're impacted you don't get to keep them cuz they bust them up to get them out?  i never really thought about it, but i guess that's why i didn't get mine.  Anyways all 4 of mine were impacted so they knocked me out.  i woke up in their little recovery room and they were like your mom went to get your medicine.  my mouth was all numb and i was starving so i had a frosty from wendy's which i threw up since it didn't go well with the anesthesia.  then my mom didn't want me to get "addicted" to my painkillers so she was trying not to give them to me...but she gave in   :p    i looked like a chipmunk for days and even when i went back to work, they were like "geez are you ok?" since i was still puffy and bruised...so getting my wisdom teeth out was not fun

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #25 on: July 24, 2005, 06:56:00 pm »
I guess it depends on the severity of the impaction.  For mine, they just drilled a hole through each tooth, stuck a steel pin in there about a 1/8" in diameter, and rocked the tooth back and forth until it popped out.  I have all four of the teeth, and they are whole, not in pieces.  If my parents didn't have them with all of my other teeth, I would take a pic of them and attach.  Oh well...

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« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2005, 11:06:00 pm »
I got all four of my teeth removed at the same time. Not a nice experience. I do think that the combination of novacaine and laughing gas made this little girl feel pretty good. I got to keep all the teeth too. Almost makes swallowing all the bloody gauze in my mouth (couldn't feel a thing) along with tylenol worth it.

chaz

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2005, 09:29:00 am »
They definately smashed mine up before they took them out.  A few days after the initial procedure I had to go back so they could pull out a chunk they left behind.  Bastards!

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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2005, 10:03:00 am »
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Re: wisdom teeth
« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2005, 12:54:00 pm »
Have no idea what they did with mine and don't want to know! I just know that 2 were pulled out and the other 2 had to be cut out...all in the same sitting.
 
 As freaked out as I was about it before surgery, it ended up being a rather odd, and not all that bad experience.
 
 First off, I insisted that I be put to sleep because I was scared shitless but the doctor refused. Now, if I wasn't asleep during the entire procedure, I have no fucking clue what I was! All I remember is going down and feeling very out of it and then them arousing me to take me over to the recovery room. Felt like no time at all had passed. About a year later, my father was totally confused because he knew how scared I was but when he went to retrieve me from the recovery room, he said that I had a big smile on my face. LOL. Obviously, the man doesn't know much about good drugs.
 
 Other than high as shit and very sleepy, I wasn't feeling much at all. Went home with a pocketful of drugs and went back to bed and slept for several hours only to wake up for dinner. Keep in mind, all 4 were extracted at once. I went out to the dinner table only to find that my mother had made a great big steak dinner for me. Yes, a very big, nice big juicy bloody rare steak which is just the way that I love it. It was a big one too! Took me well over an hour or more but I sat down and ate every last bite along with a big salad and all of the trimmings!!!
 
 Never had any nausea at any point whatsoever. I was on percodan for a week or two and then percocent. Luckily, narcotics don't make me nauseous nor do I have any kind of addiction issues. Strangely, they made me want to clean and eat. Never understood that but have heard from others it did the same to them. It was quite odd because I could eat anything and everything once I figured out how to maneuver the food. The secret is in using your front teeth and allowing the saliva to do it's job and allowing it to help dissolve the food. Takes a lot of time but was well worth it because I ate like a fool the entire time! The only food that I had a problem with were sandwiches and that was because I couldn't open my mouth far enough to stuff them in. When there's a will, there's a way. I just smashed them down to make them thinner and still managed to eat every last crumb. I'm just glad that this was back when I use to be really skinny or I would have had to find a good diet once all was healed and the drugs were gone.