I left the house for the first time in six days yesterday! I spent those six days eating, among things, jelly1, mashed potato, yoghurt, pumpkin, and soup.
That’s right, I had my wisdom teeth removed! All four of them. My week in recovery involved minimal chewing, and a lot of relaxing. The extraction process wasn’t too bad. I had not really thought about the process of extraction prior to my dental appointment, and therefore was somewhat taken aback when confronted with a huge needle that was to be inserted into my mouth at least six times. As a result, however, the procedure was relatively painless, and one and a half hours later I was ready to be driven home with a bunch of gauze (to stop the bleeding), and a sachet of wisdom teeth, which I uploaded a photo of.2 They were described as being “big and curvy”.
The recovery was quite quick and painless, too. My face hardly swelled up at all, and the bleeding stopped in under 24 hours. Painkillers were required for seven days, with the number I required daily gradually reducing over that time.
I’m glad it went well! I think those are the curviest teeth I’ve ever seen. :P
You’re lucky. When I had my wisdom teeth removed, I developed a dry socket, which caused the healing process to be much slower and more painful. I’m glad everything went well for you, though! It feels nice to finally be able to eat solid things again, doesn’t it? :)
Mmmm mashed potato.. *drools*
Wow, those are curvy alright, glad everything went well though!
@Alyssa: Ouch! I’ve heard that dry socket is indeed very painful. Also, It is nice to eat solid foods again, but the food I was eating was all things I like to eat anyway, so it wasn’t too bad!
I’m too chicken to get mine out! I’ve been putting it off for years! :P
Haha, when I first started to read this I was like, “What the hell, why would she be telling us this?! I would be embarrassed to admit I’d been holed up eating soup jelly and nothing else like some weird hermit.”
And then you mentioned the wisdom teeth and then I I felt stupid because how could I have not figured that out on my own?
@Rose: Haha, your comment made me laugh. I was experimenting with writing in a semi-non-chronological order to make it more interesting.
I’m glad to hear your wisdom teeth were removed so event-free. When my friends got there’s out their cheeks puff out, and the all looked like chipmunks. Thankfully, I don’t have wisdom teeth (ah, I’m missing wisdom!) according to x-rays my dentist took of my jaw. So that’s good. :)
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I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed at once. They gave me local anesthesia during the surgery. My wisdom teeth were impacted into the jaw. The surgery itself wasn’t painful, it’s the week after that’s most painful lol. My cheeks blew up to the size of softballs.