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[quote=Anonymous]I had my two upper wisdom teeth extracted with only local when I was 26 (not in this area though).  I was adamently opposed to sedation of any kind, and my oral surgeon said he rarely removed wisdom teeth without sedation but was willing to do it with just local.  The procedure was a breeze (there was a lot of bone crunching and tugging.)  Both teeth were impacted, but one was under the bone more so he had to slice off the bone with a saw to get at it (that one took about 30 minutes to unearth).

Basically when I got in the chair, a nurse gave me two lollipop looking things that were filled with some sort of topical local.  She told me to place them in the area of each tooth.  This numbed the gums so that I barely felt the injections of local (I think there were 2 injections for each tooth).  Now the part about all this that freaked me out and made me panic was that the injections of local numbed my tongue and upper palate so that I felt that I could not swallow properly.  Not being able to swallow is something that has caused me panic attacks in the past, so this totally freaked me out and I started wishing I had done the sedation, just for this reason.  I felt like I couldn't coordinate the motions of my swallowing because I couldn't feel my tongue or upper palate.  So think about whether this would freak you out too (I think if I had had all 4 injections for all 4 teeth and couldn't feel my upper or lower palate I would have definitely had a panic attack.  Luckily after a few minutes the worst of the feelings of non-coordination wore off and I was able to swallow a bit better.  I had to hold my swallow reflex during the wisdom teeth removal part (because there were sharp objects back there) which was very hard (that's another thing that causes me panic, when I feel that I can't swallow).

I had no problems sailing through the cutting, tugging, and crunching sounds.  It was the swallowing thing that caused me to have moments of panic.

My lower 2 wisdom teeth are still impacted but my dentist adivsed against removing those because of how close they were to an important nerve.  Now I'm in my mid-30's and figure since the lower 2 haven't caused any problems yet, I might as well leave them in.

By the way, I'm still adament against sedation for medical procedures, and had several breast lumps removed with only local (which was not advised by my breast surgeon, he recommended general anesthesia or heavy sedation).  I did great with these procedures too, much better than if I had had to have anesthesia![/quote]

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