Posted on 03/13/2014 11:13:45 AM PDT by Java4Jay
Afterward something kinda weird happened. There was a small hole between the space where the tooth used to be and the sinus cavity. I couldn't play for about a month, because the pressure from playing the horn blew air up into the sinuses. That was a weird feeling.
So I had to wait for that hole to heal enough to take the pressure before I could play again.
I had a traumatic event at the dentist back when I was 15 and then never went back again for another 15 years. Ended up having to go to an oral surgeon and it they put me out and it took 3 hours to get them all removed.
I would heed the advice then
I would have it removed. The top pic shows tooth leaning against the other. Obviously it may need to be removed. I had mines removed because gradually I began to have sinus congestion then headaches where I used an ice pack to calm it down. As time went by it was getting worse then the tooth gave out a strong burning sensation that I could no longer tolerate it. I was unemployed so I went to the county. There they told me I need a root canal and it would cost like 400.00 but I told them no because I had no money period. I asked them over and over to please remove it. So they did. It wasn’t so bad they numb the tooth area, and all I heard was a cracking sound with the pliers. When they pulled out the tooth. OMG I felt immediately all the sinus fluid just being released and the next day burning, headache, congestion...GONE!!! I do recommended removal. You don’t want to wait unti it does more harm.
Also I notice your the first that posted an actual xray. =)
I had them out at 19 and don’t regret it. I have a small jaw and the teeth were “normal sized” — all four impacted. I didn’t feel a thing but 2 different dentists told me eventually they’d push my other teeth out of alignment and most likely become infected.
I don’t regret it — had all 4 taken out at once and recovered quickly (well, I was 19 at the time, LOL).
I also recommend going to a good oral surgeon. All 3 of my kids had theirs out on the same day.
It was interesting, but over with quickly.
Get’m pulled, now!
Note how the wisdom tooth is resting on the molar, which is also touching the next tooth. Prime spots for cavities to form, as there’s no way to get floss to remove plaque, or get to the gum. This will cause pockets in the gum and give disease and bad breath.
The uppers are easy to remove, as they are embedded in softer tissue, the lowers are tougher as the wisdom teeth are embedded in the jawbone. The real key on removal difficulty is the shape of the lower roots (which doesn’t show on your pics.) Mine were spread apart at the lower root, so the base of the teeth were larger than the top of the tooth.
So, my plumber of a dentist had to break-off parts off my jawbone to get the tooth out. Had bone chips coming through my gums for many months, before this same plumber went in to the sliced open lower gum and took nippers to clip off the rest of the shattered jawbone.
Still glad that they got ripped out at an earlier age, but I had still waited too long as my front lowers are all out of line, looking kind’a gnarly!
Good luck!
My parents have a waterpik ("YOU'RE NOT GIVING AWAY OUR WATERPIK!!!), and I have used it in the past... it's kind of messy, and I hate having to go and clean and polish mom's bathroom mirror when I am done.
Easier to just avoid popcorn...
Serenity now... insanity later.
Heard getting this done can be a question of doing it when one can as opposed to waiting until they have to. I know many go thought their lives with all of their wisdom teeth and have no ill effects but I have seen friends who never had it done and regretted it both in cost and healing time. Young as possible is better in this case.
Had all four of mine out when I was about 21.
My co-worker did not have his wisdom teeth removed until he was 59. The wisdom teeth pushed into the adjoining molars. He lost the adjoining molars too. Use what insurance you have. Most dental insurance has limits on how much they will reimburse per calendar year. I would have some pulled in 2014 and the others pulled in January 2015. You really don’t have much choice. If you do nothing now you will have much more pain and expense later. I went to a oral surgeon and had four impacted wisdom teeth extracted at the same time. I did not feel a thing. I healed quickly.
I just had a molar pulled. Turned into dry socket. Had never heard of that term before. Now that I have, I wished I hadn’t. There is no way to accurately describe the intense pain.
Had mine removed last year at 53.
Should have been done long ago, but they were not causing me any problems that I could discern. As it turns out, they had caused adjacent molars to misalgn and created a void below the gum-line which eroded tissue I could not maintain. Long story short, had to involve a periodontist’s skills before finally having the WT removed. No big deal, slept through the whole thing.
Dentists seem to have an affinity for removing them. I’ve kept mine. No real problems other than dentists do not like to work on teeth “back there”.
Go for it!
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I was told at age 36 or 37 that I needed to have one or more(I forget) wisdom teeth out. I thought that the dentist was just trying to wring money out of me, since I was self-pay at that time. 5-6 years later, when my financial situation was not nearly so good, I ended up doing it. My jaw and lymph nodes certainly felt better, but I would recommend doing it if its recommended at a time when dental care is accessible. Because of Obamacare, there is uncertainty about this stuff and I would give the same advice about any minor non-emergency surgery. It will probably improve her general health to get rid of them. Trust the dentist or get a second opinion—I think you can do that.
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BTW, my mother still has her wisdom teeth, and I won't tell her age, I'll just say I'm a great grandpa.
I didn’t have any trouble with my(5) wisdom teeth until
I was in my early 50’s. I’ve since had 3 of them removed
over the past several years when they started giving me
problems.
I didn’t have any real problems with the procedures,other
than some numbness in my lower gum and chin that lasted
about 9 months.
I had an unopposed wisdom tooth my dentist recommended to be pulled.
I asked him what would happen if I didn’t have it pulled.
He told me that sooner or later it would drop far enough to hit my lower gum and it would bother me.
He was right.
Twenty years later, it had dropped far enough to bother me.
I had it removed.
I was one of the fortunate ones, who grew up in the SW with natural flouride in the water so I had no cavities and due to good DNA no teeth lap overs.
In my early twenties I was in the Navy and one of my front teeth started to lap over, and I was having jaw pain in my upper jaw where my wisdom teeth were.
So the Navy strongly suggested that I have them pulled by them. I did and had to go out to sea the first night post op for a hurricane alert. I started bleeding. It was serious enough before it stopped, the CO was considering having me helicoptered out. The navy corpsman stopped the bleeding by feeding me a lot of Ice cream.
As soon as my upper jaws healed, I was told to report the broken jaw ward at the Navy hospital for the removal of the lower wisdom teeth. The oral surgeons were afraid that they might have to break a jaw bone as the wisdom teeth had started growing along the jaw bone instead of up an out. They planned the surgery on a Friday and told my wife and I, that I would have to spend the weekend in the broken jaw ward.
Since, I was in the Nav Sec group, at that time when one us of underwent serious anthesia, they often sent an armed Marine to monitor our operation pre and post op incase we talked.
After my operation on Friday, I was pretty doped up the next morning on Saturday, and I still had a Marine with me. The Oral surgeons heard that my wife was a nurse. They discharged me on a Saturday Moring, the day after surgery into her care. Everyone including me was glad that I went home early.
I don’t do well with oral narcotics, so I was given some low dose APC. I had a fifth of scotch to get me through the weekend. I still can’t stand the smell of scotch, 50 years later.
Moral of the long story get the teeth out know.
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