desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2011-04-12 05:43 pm
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Wisdomtoothectomy in 30 days! Definitely getting the right ones out, and have to decide whether to get the left ones out too. (The left ones have never bothered me before. On the other hand, they're likely to get worse as I get older, and also harder to remove. Also, I have a significantly higher chance of nerve damage than in a normal wisdom tooth removal, which will also only get worse.)

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Wheee! Are you as excited as I am???
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[identity profile] yolachka.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Just get the unpleasantness over with in one go.

[identity profile] goob712.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa. I'm the only one to say 2?

I have gotten mine done one at a time. Top left, then top right, both no problem. Bottom left, PROBLEM. Seriously uncomfortable. Took me over a week before I could chew again without pain. And that was just one side.

On second thought, maybe just get it over with. If you just had problems with Top only, I'd say just do the top ones now and leave the bottoms until you HAVE to.

Or you could remove the mean response of 3.80, in which case you might have troubles.

[identity profile] goob712.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Also your other teeth adjust to fill the roominess of your mouth, maybe just do that all at once so they adjust symmetrically?

[identity profile] msschein.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Man, your friends are decisive. Good luck!

[identity profile] sleepsong.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The problem with only doing 2 is that then the others will grow in, and when they don't have something to stop against (ie the two teeth you had removed) they'll keep growing, and the only way to stop this is to have special wire brace thingies put int. Trust me from experience, that wire brace thingie *sucks*. I had three second molars and one wisdom tooth removed because of a severe infection and then my wisdom teeth were allowed to grow in to where the second molars were (so I'm still 75% wise! Woohoo!), but for the several years it took all of that to happen I had a little mini brace between my one remaining second molar and the tooth next to it to keep it from growing and falling out, and it was really lame.

[identity profile] leftyjew.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm generally against elective surgery. Why take more things out of your body than you need to?
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