Extracting 4 Impacted wisdom teeth under Local anesthesia?

[Anonymous]

I had 5 impacted wisdom teeth removed on something less than full sedation and involved laughing gas. It was fine. It was 1998.

[Anonymous]

I had just local anesthetic for my wisdom teeth removal. I normally HATE medical procedures but it was totally fine. No pain at all, a little pressure, probably the worst thing is hearing the teeth crack. I listened to podcasts to take my mind off it but the whole procedure was pretty quick.

Recovery wasn't bad, either. The worst thing was getting food stuck up in the holes, days' worth of food chunks would come out and it tastes SO BAD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had one side done each way, although not impacted. The knocked out version was probably less stressful, but the numbed up only version was painless. It was just a little vigorous. They have to use some force and feeling them doing the work can be disconcerting.

I had this done in my early 20s. It was really weird to see the surgeon brace themselves on my chair to tug out one of my tougher teeth. I think I wished I had been sedated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had 5 impacted wisdom teeth removed on something less than full sedation and involved laughing gas. It was fine. It was 1998.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of a dentist taking wisdom teeth out— isn’t it always an oral surgeon?

It depends on the specialization's of the dentist and the decade. In the mid 80s it was my regular dentist who took out my impacted wisdoms, using local anesthetic and sewing my gums up himself.

[Anonymous]

Local anesthesia? That’s nuts. I went under for all four.

[Anonymous]

No one does local anymore. I am still traumatized from mine. Get a good oral surgeon. It will be fine.

[Anonymous]

I had mine done a few months ago with full sedation. No way would I have done it with just local. It was bad enough already. My doctor prescribed an anti-nausea med that i took the night before as a preventative measure, and the sedation was fine.

[Anonymous]

Twilight for mine, and that was fine during despite the weirdness of seeing my oral surgeon bracing himself to pry those suckers out. When they noticed me opening my eyes, they cranked up the dose.

I did barf quite a bit afterwards.