So I had the wisdom teeth yanked yesterday...

How awful should I let wisdom tooth misery get before calling a dentist? Bottom right one has been bothering me for a week--I've been able to treat it with scotch and Mexican vicodin but I'm running low on pills. Tooth itself is poking out a little but there's still a fuckload of gum around it. Am I just, like, teething?
― adam (adam), Friday, February 17, 2006 8:41 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in a really weird coincidence i just had the two left wisdom teeth removed on 2/17/16, ten years to the day after i made this post. nauseated off the painkillers but otherwise not bad.

Huh, I forgot that a past dentist told me that my wisdom teeth were in fact impacted. (They grew in about halfway and stopped, and normally don't bother me.) My current dentist wants me to have them removed; she gave me the names of a couple of local oral surgeons. I need to start doing my due diligence. I hope they're far enough out that the surgery will be minimal....

Ooof

Agh impacted wisdom teeth. Good luck finding a surgeon. One of my wisdom teeth is impacted and I no longer have dental insurance - I could have dealt with it cheaply years ago,silly me. Although I actually saw a surgeon and then didnt pull the trigger because I didnt like him and when I googled him he had had a sexual harassment claim from an employee (which made me feel vindicated lol).I'm 36 and this specific one only emerged through gum in the last couple years,the remaining three all came in straight but I had one removed because it didnt fully emerge and left a flap that was troublesome for cleaning and led to gum issues.