opinion on wisdom teeth removal

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dentist is not at all someone who pushes procedures in any way. But he did encourage me to get my wisdom teeth out, even though they were not bothering me one bit and were in straight.

What he said is that when you're older, you're more prone to having problems that are harder to fix, you don't heal as quickly, and are more likely to get complications.

So I got mine out at 47 and it took less than a half hour.

I had mine out at 35. They were all impacted. The surgery itself took less than an hour but I had a long and painful recovery and some complications including dry socket and developing a hematoma. My teen DD recently had hers out, they were all impacted too, and her recovery was 2-3 days of discomfort. I so wish I had mine out earlier.

My understanding is that dry socket is from food particles falling into the "holes" and creating an infection that's painful. I was cautioned to use the needle thing after each time I ate to "wash out" the holes and to do it repeatedly until I saw no more food particles, to not eat anything small (like chia seeds) and to not use a straw or suck anything. Sucking could dislodge the blood clot that needed to form over each extraction site.

My understanding is that dry socket is caused by the removal (normally by suction which is why they tell you not to use straws or smoke or vape) of the clot that is covering the “socket” the teeth were in.

That clot covers an exposed nerve, which if it is dislodged.. well.

I had dry socket. Worse than the pain after the surgery. And nothing helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dentist is not at all someone who pushes procedures in any way. But he did encourage me to get my wisdom teeth out, even though they were not bothering me one bit and were in straight.

What he said is that when you're older, you're more prone to having problems that are harder to fix, you don't heal as quickly, and are more likely to get complications.

So I got mine out at 47 and it took less than a half hour.

I had mine out at 35. They were all impacted. The surgery itself took less than an hour but I had a long and painful recovery and some complications including dry socket and developing a hematoma. My teen DD recently had hers out, they were all impacted too, and her recovery was 2-3 days of discomfort. I so wish I had mine out earlier.

My understanding is that dry socket is from food particles falling into the "holes" and creating an infection that's painful. I was cautioned to use the needle thing after each time I ate to "wash out" the holes and to do it repeatedly until I saw no more food particles, to not eat anything small (like chia seeds) and to not use a straw or suck anything. Sucking could dislodge the blood clot that needed to form over each extraction site.

My understanding is that dry socket is caused by the removal (normally by suction which is why they tell you not to use straws or smoke or vape) of the clot that is covering the “socket” the teeth were in. That clot covers an exposed nerve, which if it is dislodged.. well.

I had dry socket. Worse than the pain after the surgery. And nothing helps.

I'm so sorry you had dry socket. My super tough macho roommate had dry socket and I found him rocking on the floor curled in the fetal position, and had to tell him to call the doctor that did the procedure and ask if the pain should be so bad he was like that. That's how I learned about dry socket.