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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: A.M. Thomas on September 29, 2008, 09:18:27 PM
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This doesn't feel good at all!
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I hope you feel better.
While you are recovering, pureed spinach and oranges is really delicious. I eat it now all the time.
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I found that I didn't really need the Vicodin so much as I need the huge ibuprofen pills. Well, I needed the first bottle of Vicodin but not the refill. You can barter off all or parts of the refill for goods and services. Or use for recreation.
Also, while on Vicodin, post tooth extraction, I thought Curb Your Enthusiasm was really funny. When I recovered I was back to not getting it.
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bite down on some tea bags.
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jpeg, please.
(in all seriousness, feel better, and enjoy the painkillers).
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bite down on some tea bags.
jpeg, please.
I won't even say it ...
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My cheeks are barely swollen, so I won't post a pic. I'm actually feeling better already, although I think the anti-biotic I was prescribed is making me sick.
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Try new ice cream flavours and get everyone to do things for you. Also: get well soon, but when you do, pretend that it still hurts so people will continue to bring you food.
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Try new ice cream flavours and get everyone to do things for you. Also: get well soon, but when you do, pretend that it still hurts so people will continue to bring you food.
Emma, you are so smart. I already whined enough to get a whole carton of pistachio, which is my favorite. I need to get more oral surgery so I can eat it forever.
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This news does nothing for me. Are you going to have to miss out on work/school/life at all because of this?
I'm 33 and I just found out a few months ago mine are coming in and need to come out. Great timing, teeth. I'm dreading it though, and avoided it as best I could, but one of them has full on been pushing through lately and some days that whole side of my face just kind of aches.
But now I hear there is an ice cream option, maybe all the pain and drugs will be worth it then?
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Braces hurt more than teeth removal. Especially when they're first in. And I've had my wisdom teeth and 4 others removed. I'd still prefer that to the two weeks of agony when my braces were put on when I was 13.
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I never understood what was supposed to be so bad about braces. Certainly they weren't fun, and my teeth were probably sore for a few days, but I had no major trauma. However, I'm somewhat terrified of wisdom teeth.
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Braces hurt more than teeth removal. Especially when they're first in. And I've had my wisdom teeth and 4 others removed.
Quit bragging.
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Braces hurt more than teeth removal. Especially when they're first in. And I've had my wisdom teeth and 4 others removed.
Quit bragging.
Yesno, I respectfully disagree. I had both -- the braces were extreme and closed a 1/4 inch gap between my teeth in 3 hours, and the wisdom teeth were impacted. I'd say the wisdom teeth were far worse. I looked like a beat-up chipmunk.
Drugs were nice, though...
Hang in there Tomas. Mashed potatoes are pretty satisfying at times like these...
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Braces hurt the shit out of my lips. It was like having the inside of my lips stabbed with dull knives for weeks.
Then the whole point of them was to massively shift my teeth to fill in the holes created by other teeth being removed. This also hurt.
Yeah, I'm bragging. 8 teeth removed + braces = better than
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0 teeth removed + no braces = loser
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I guess it depends on the method of their removal. I've really only heard the horror stories from people who needed (or chose) to be knocked out to have their wisdom teeth removed. I got my bottom 2 removed last year. They had been fully in and acting as "normal" teeth for years, I just hadn't had any insurance so I had to suffer through them. I had braces for 3 years and the wisdom teeth being in un-did some of that perfect teeth work (a few are crooked again), but ... ah well I thought. Then the pain came. The obvious, I-have-a-cavity pain. Did that for about a year then finally got free insurance through my job. I'm cheap, so I opted for being awake and numbed like mad. They "sedated me" but the pill only worked for about 30 minutes and I was told to take it an hour before leaving to get the procedure. So I was terrified. But in the end, they came out. They gave me hydrocodone but I never needed it. I discovered the power of 4 ibuprofen. And what is now being called "Gentle Dentistry". They're made for complete dentist-phobes like me.
The majority of my braces experience (sadistic hygienists) causes me to have mild-panic attacks before going to even get my teeth cleaned. So I would agree with whoever said braces are worse.
I had to cut my hours a work so I could go back to school so I lost my insurance ... Now my top wisdom teeth are coming in ... Awesome.
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Don't forget the cutting...
and the sawing...
and the cutting...
and the sawing...
It took them nearly 4 hours to remove my 4 wisdom teeth, in 1974. I am pretty sure at some point they used a tab from a pull-top aluminum can, an ice pick, and a rusty table saw.
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Yeah if they haven't grown in yet, you're basically having them dig and detach tiny pieces of bone from under your gums.
I had 3 years of braces, other teeth extractions and a palatal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatal_expander)expander. None of them came close to the wisdom teeth hell. I was laid up for 2 weeks.
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I need to get more oral moral surgery so I can eat it forever.
There we go.
I'm getting on in my 30's and I still have all my wisdom teeth. Too bad they hurt like hell and it feels like I'm teething on some days. I need insurance.
I've had a ton of oral surgery in my teens. I'd get a tooth knocked out, have it replaced, then have that one banged up again. Now I live in fear of Novocaine. Once you've had your mouth disassembled on local anesthetic, you hesitate to do it again.
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Once you've had your mouth disassembled on local anesthetic, you hesitate to do it again.
Yes. Having my wisdom teeth removed put me off dentistry for about 6 years. I wish I'd been put under. It was the sounds of my bones cracking & crunching that really upset me.
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Once you've had your mouth disassembled on local anesthetic, you hesitate to do it again.
Yes. Having my wisdom teeth removed put me off dentistry for about 6 years. I wish I'd been put under. It was the sounds of my bones cracking & crunching that really upset me.
I had one of my wisdom teeth pulled and that sound is worse than the pain.
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0 teeth removed + no braces = loser
same here.
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One of my sisters had all four removed at once and had a fairly hellish time afterward. I, on the other hand, had them removed in two at a time (right side and then left). The worst thing was the smell of burning bone from the drilling, but that was merely creepy. Neither extraction hurt much, and recovery was pretty breezy, too. So, at the least, be assured that it need not be a big deal.
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I had the left side done, then all the staff at my dentist's office left for some reason and I had to have the other side done by this Doogie Howser kid who looked about 15 years old. The first two were totally smooth and painless, but the later two - at one point, I think the kid had one of his feet up against my head while he yanked against the tooth with both hands. To be fair, I think the right side were way more impacted - he showed me the root of my lower right wisdom tooth, and it was curved like a fish-hook - but he still left a lot to be desired in terms of chair-side manner.
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i have no doubt that i have wisdom teeth that need to be removed, but i refuse to acknowledge that they will do any harm if they remain in my head.
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Yeah, I'm bragging. 8 teeth removed + braces = better than
No way, how about no braces, two teeth removed, and the rest are crooked as shit. Gives 'em character.
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I got mine out on my last spring break of high school. My parents went to Miami for a week and I was trapped in their suburban home with little to do but wince. I had "dry rot" (a worse sounding term I cannot imagine) from smoking cigarettes and spend the rest of my recuperation taking vicodin. People kept bringing me cheeseburgers for some reason and since I had no appetite, I'd just feed them whole to my dog. I got better eventually, and when my parents came home they noticed Domino had gained like 20 lbs. Oh well, at least it was fun for somebody.
moral: don't smoke.
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I haven't even got my wisdom teeth yet - still waiting for them to descend! xxx fingers xxx
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I have been informed that, logically, the bit of tooth I can feel behind my last molar is indeed a wisdom tooth coming in. Luckily, it's one of the straight ones. Unfortunately, that means that I will probably have to get them all removed soon.
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No wisdom teeth and no braces, but I like to think that's just good dental luck in exchange for a childhood full of hellish teeth-related experiences. Things got lost and chipped and knocked around and the whole thing culminated in me running in front of a kid on a swingset at age 8 and getting one front tooth kicked out. I had to have the other one surgically removed and ended up with what felt like a billion stitches in the roof of my mouth. My adult front teeth didn't grow in for another two years, and I still get kinda self-conscious about smiling with my mouth open.
On the bright side, the tooth fairy brought me like fifteen dollars.
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ive never had surgery, a broken bone, or stitches. have i been robbed?
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It means you're in Showroom-Condition and I congratulate you for it. You're doing better at the game of "life" then the rest of us.
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ive never had surgery, a broken bone, or stitches. have i been robbed?
No, it just means you win.
The "joke" in my household is that I get injured for everybody. All my family members, like you, are in christine condition, but the being-half-blind-and-having-no-depth-perception thing means I got the short end of the falling over/running into stuff stick. It's calmed down a lot since I was a (younger) kid, but I have pretty much hurt myself in every ridiculous or stupid way possible. I used to go to sit down in chairs....and miss them entirely.
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I was a mess as a kid. The expression "so uncoordinated, he couldn't hit the water if he fell out of a boat" applied to me.
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i may be in proper condition structurally, but everything else is the opposite. however, it makes me very jealous i dont have any brilliant stories on my childhood.
in hindsight, i wish i was a mess. there are no excuses as an adult.
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ive never had surgery, a broken bone, or stitches. have i been robbed?
I've never been robbed or burglarized, but I've had my fair share of surgery, broken bones, and stitches. (None from fights, I somehow feel compelled to add.)
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ive never had surgery, a broken bone, or stitches. have i been robbed?
I've never been robbed or burglarized, but I've had my fair share of surgery, broken bones, and stitches. (None from fights, I somehow feel compelled to add.)
you complete me, Martin.
i have been robbed/burglarized and it feels very similar to your description of recent "house guests".
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I had my wisdom teeth removed when I was in high school. I was terrified because of all the horror stories people felt compelled to tell me when they heard I was having it done (the best one was that someone was in the waiting room when one of the Cincinnati Bengals came out after the surgery, crying and with blood streaming down his face), but it went remarkably smoothly for me. I didn't even fill the prescription for the pain pills and I was eating normal food for dinner the day of the surgery.