i have my wisdom teeth growin in and they r killing me. the pain is unbareble. and i have one tooth that is pretty messed up. they want to put me to sleep and take out all 4 of my wisdom teeth and the one that is messed up so will it hurt to have them take out all five teeth at once? (when i wake up)
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Yeah it will probably hurt some, but they should give you some good pain killers! Also you might not be able to eat very well for a couple of days. I had jaw surgery where they broke my jaw and reset it and all 4 of my wisdom teeth cut out at the same time...talk about hurting.....:(
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i had both experiences with wisdom teeth.  personally if you have the option of being more sedated (and you have no health problems) i would choose that option.  i preferred it, didn't have to sit there awake while my mouth was tugged on, i remember nothing besides getting a little medicine and waking up.
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I have had one wisdom tooth taken out and it was ok.  They gave me an injection and I felt absolutely no pain.\nYou would be under a general anaesthic for this and will not feel a thing.\nSurgery is not as scary as it sounds.  Infact, it is very relaxing.\nYou can always have a drug to help you relax prior to the general anaesthetic.  \nHaving surgery is an amazing thing actually.  It takes just a split second to be anaesthetized and before you know it, you are awake and wondering if they have done you or not.\nYou may feel some pain after surgery but with the right pain killers, you will get through it with no problems.\nObviously, your dentist feels they must come out.\nYou will feel better for it and so will your mouth.\nSpeak to your dentist about the fears you are having.  Speak to others who have had it done. I know my little brother in law(who is just 20) had 4 of his out recently and he is doing great.\nMy 15 year old neice had five teeth removed and she was fine.\nOf course, surgery for the first time is scary but I want to assure you that it's not.\nI find it very relaxing.  You will be in the best of care.\nTry not to worry about it.  Think pleasant thoughts.  Sometimes the drs. and nurses joke around with you to help relax you.\nJust think of it has having a nice sleep while they fix up your mouth.\nGood luck : ) Keep smiling.......your teeth will be beautiful
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I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt but it isn't all that bad. The needles will feel like a very sharp pinch in your mouth. They may give you four or five needles to make sure you're good and frozen. The second one you don't really feel as much. 3-5 are sort of a dull ache.\n\nWhen they pull the tooth you will hear a crunching sound. There's nothing to be alarmed about, it's perfectly normal. It feels rather unsettling when the tooth does come out. It doesn't hurt but your brain is telling you that it should hurt when it doesn't which is weird.\n\nIf you are really scared call the dentist and see if they can give you a prescription for Ativan or Valium. If you take a couple of those you'll probably fall asleep while they're putting the freezing in. If not you're going to think that this whole dentist thing rocks and it's the most fun you've had in awhile. ;)\n\nI have had 6 baby teeth pulled in my life and I have to stay the worst part is actually waiting for it to be done! The fear far outweighed the actual discomfort of the procedure. I also had my wisdom teeth pulled (I was asleep) a couple years ago. I was more afraid of being put to sleep than I was of the actual procedure (I was afraid I would still be able to feel it and not have any way of telling them). Again, it really wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared. My mouth was healthier and I was happier having it done.
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Hey I feel your pain! Had mine removed last fall.  For the first few days I just ate food I didn't have to chew so I didn't get food stuck in the wounds - yogurt, etc.  Also, and this is important!--  Ask your dentist's office for a special thing that looks like a clear plastic little syringe - you fill it with water and spray into your wounds to clean them.  That helped me a lot!feel better soon, good luck! :)
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I personally have never known a general dentist that will extract partially impacted wisdom teeth.  They all refer to an oral surgeon.  Take out a loan and do what you need to do to get them taken out as soon as possible.  Trust me, you don't want them to get infected again because it's going to hurt even worse the next time as it did the last time.  I wish you the best of luck.
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I think you should remove them.  Life is easier after you remove them.  \n\nWhile all the scientific studies, and dental lecturing above is true.  It doesn't really help you deicide does it. \n\nWhen I talk to people who come in to my office they often think there hygiene is pretty good.  But, for whatever reason, work, family, and or school, they have not gone to the dentist for a while.  \n\nYou know where I find the most catastrophic decay?, if any.  usually in the back teeth, between the 2nd and 3rd molars, or 1st and 2nd molars.  People can't floss back there.  When you brush your teeth you look in the mirror and see the front teeth and the back teeth are just glanced over. \n\nWhen big cavities do occur between the 2nd molars and the wisdom teeth is almost always the 2nd molars that need all the work.   If they are pulled you are left with these big useless wisdome teeth hangout back there.  So why not remove the wisdom teeth and get rid of those back liablities to tip the hygiene equation in your favor.  If you have less to clean you may make it back there more often.  You know what they say every little bit helps.\n\nAnother benefit is that without those babies back there your jaws become a lot more mobile since the wisdom teeth are not there to rub against the jaw bone. \n\nGood luck in your decision.  It's really not easy to make the decision to get them removed. But the need to get them removed is valid.
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if you don't think you are healing , then go back to the dentist immediately!! You should not put your tounge any where near the  places you had the teeth pulled from, i know this is hard to do because your tounge automatically will want to go there, it soothes the pain when you do this, about the blackness, i am not sure what that is but i would call the dentist first thing monday morning and inquire about what you see and feel, good luck-get better soon
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sorry to hear you're in pain, that's tough!  everyone i've known who's had root canals wished they never did it - they often have complications.  last fall i had my wisdom teeth removed, and had to have a molar next to one of them removed also ( i had the option of root canal or just removing it)  and it's ok now, i don't miss it, pain's gone.  so if it's a few back teeth you wouldn't miss, you may just want to ask them to just remove them...good luck!
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I recommend all 4 at the same time.  You only have to modify your diet once and you only have to recover once.  Also another aspect is money.  It's cheaper to get all 4 extracted in one session than 4 different surgeries.  You have the same amount of complications/risks/benefits from 4 extraction as you do with one tooth extracted.\n\nShould You Have Your Wisdom Teeth Removed?\n\nJennifer Flach was a college junior when her wisdom teeth started making themselves known.  "My other teeth started moving around," she remembers. "The wisdom teeth were pushing out and undoing some of the orthodontic work I had done in high school."\nAt the same time, her brother — who's two years younger and was also in college — had no symptoms. But the family dentist suggested his wisdom teeth should come out too.\nJen and her brother had back-to-back wisdom tooth extractions and recovered together at home during spring break. "It was quite a week at my parents' house," she says.\nPatrick Grother was 26 when his dentist mentioned that his wisdom teeth might need to be removed. His bottom left wisdom tooth had partially erupted into his mouth and a flap of gum still covered it. "The dentist said food would get trapped there and it could get infected," he says. Patrick then visited a periodontist, who said that the gum flap could be cut away but it would grow back.\n"I put it off for awhile," Patrick said, but he eventually had the wisdom teeth on the left side of his mouth extracted.\nA few people are born without wisdom teeth or have room in their mouths for them, but like Jen and her brother, many of us get our wisdom teeth taken out during our college years. And like Patrick, many of us are first alerted to the problem when our wisdom teeth don't emerge (erupt) into the mouth properly because there is not enough toom for them to fit. \n"A part of the tooth may remain covered by a flap of gum, where food particles and bacteria can get trapped, causing a mild irritation, a low-grade infection called pericoronitis and swelling," says Dr. Donald Sadowsky, professor emeritus of clinical dentistry College of Dental Medicine and the Mailman School of Public Health. This usually happens with the lower wisdom teeth. Pericoronitis and the pain it causes is the most common reason people need their wisdom teeth taken out.\nPericoronitis is just one of the reasons that you may need to have a wisdom tooth or more than one removed. \nIn many people, the wisdom teeth never even partially enter the mouth. Often the teeth are tilted under the gum and blocked from coming in by bone or other teeth. Dentists call these impacted teeth; they may cause pain, but you may feel nothing at all for years. You may not even be aware that you have wisdom teeth until your dentist sees them on an X-ray.\nRegular dental visits are important during your teens and early twenties because this is the time when teeth are most likely to decay. Regular visits allow your dentist to follow the progress of your wisdom teeth with X-rays. \nEven if your wisdom teeth aren't causing any pain or other problems, they may cause problems at some point. The most common problems are decay, infection, and crowding or damage to other teeth. But more serious complications can occur, including the development of a cyst that can cause permanent damage to bone, teeth and nerves. \nHowever, not all wisdom teeth need to be removed.\nIf removing wisdom teeth is necessary, it's easier in younger people because the tooth roots are not fully developed and the bone in which the teeth sit is less dense. Extracting your wisdom teeth before any complications develop also allows for shorter recovery time and less discomfort after the surgery\n\n\nIf you need all four wisdom teeth removed, they usually are taken out at the same time. The top teeth usually are easier to remove than the lower ones.\nHere are the types of wisdom teet
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You need your molars, wisdom teeth are questionable.  Many dentists will in fact restore wisdom teeth, I for one had wisdom teeth filled when I was in hygiene school as I did not have time to have them pulled.  The problem with wisdom teeth is that they are so far back in the mouth that it is hard to restore them.  Also when they are this far back it is very hard to keep them clean, hence you have cavities in them.  Many dentists would just rather go ahead and extract them as long as you have all of your other teeth because it is easier then trying to fill them being so far back.  Also they really don't know how deep the decay is until they get into drilling the tooth to see the inside.  If the decay is deep, close to the pulp (nerve) then they would prob. just extract it anyway.  Why go through all of this work, when they could just extract in the first place?  Again as long as you have all of your other adult teeth intact, then your doc has a good reason why he wants to extract.  I  would have had my two wisdom teeth with decay in them extracted in the first place, but I could not miss the time from school.  So I just had them filled as a temporary measure until I could get them out.  Well five years after hygiene school, I finally had them out.  No problems at all.  I don't miss them at all.  It is too hard trying to get floss that far back. You do have the right to have your opinion heard though, if for some reason you want to keep your wisdom teeth, then let your dentist know.  He then will tell you why or why not you should keep or extract them.  Make sure you know all of the pros and cons.  Be an informed consumer.
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I have half a wisdom tooth (it is still coming through) - I'll be OK for a few weeks, then spend a few days in agony while it pushes through some more - it's horrible.  Worst thing is, it seems to be coming through sideways - ouch!!\n\nAnd I still have 3 more of these to go!!!????  NOOOOOO\n\n;-)
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I had a bunch of rooth canals done,it was not that bad really did not hurt durring and after(the only thing that hurt a little was my jaw from holding it open  for so long).\n\nI had part one of my crown done(meaning tthe dentist cut my thooth put a metal stick in it and popped a temparry thooth in it.That(cutting off the thooth)felt very uncomfi to lilttle pain.after it was done it was all worst it.(smile)\n\nnow next week i have a big thing going on i will get my wisdom theeth pulled plus i will get a minor operation(my dentist will cut and go in and cut one rooth away were the infection will not go away) and then i will be stitched up.\n\nmy dentist is the best(i`m a old dentist scary cat ).\nI don`t know why i`m always scared to go to the dentist ,because after everything it was never that bad.\n\nMy dentist does good work is friendly always explains what he does before he does it,and takes his time to do so.\n\n(i went one time to another dentist,because mine was on vaction,he just stared up the work i did not know what was going on i hated that dentist.)\n\noverall i would have done everything again just sooner,because now i know the longer you wait the more work you have to get done.
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I have recently had root treatment on two seperate teeth, I ended up having to get one of them out!! a week later ,so I say no , just ask for extraction , Dentists say they are trying to save our teeth but in fact are making a huge ammount of money from unsuspecting patients, who are usually at their wits end with pain when they visit the dentist in the first place, that they will agree to anything the god like dentist is suggesting !!
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I got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out in 1 appointment.It wasn't done under General anesthesia,but with Nitrous oxide and I.V. sedative.Took 1 hr. but didn't know what happened.Though my doc. says that he had a hard time pulling them as my bone was very dense.I healed pretty well.I was sore for the first day and slept mostly.Didn't feel much pain because of the pain killers.\n\nWord of advise:\nTake your antibiotics and pain-killers exactly as told by doc.Also follow the instructions well.Don't brush or rinse the first day as you risk rinsing away the clots which are forming and necessary for healing.start keeping the area very clean afterwards to prevent any infection.
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It is recommended that the opposing wisdom teeth are taken out as well. there are a couple reasons why. The first being that if you take out say, the two on top, the two on the bottom become useless as they have nothing above them to meet with, so they have no function. Second, if you take out let's say the two wisdom teeth on the bottom, the opposing teeth on top will seek out a surface to meet. They will start to drop down. This will lead to root structure becoming exposed, which can be very painful. Also, if they start to drop, they will not stop until they meet something, this may cause you to start biting the gum tissue where the wisdom teeth were removed on the bottom. this can be very painful. \n\n\n  good luck
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You can talk to either your dentist and they might recommend an oral surgeon to go to so that they can check your wisdom teeth.  Even though it isn't causing any pain they might recommend having them taking out because it causes your teeth to shift (at least thats what happened to me).