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| Topic | To those who've had it done, how bad does a wisdom teeth removal suck? |
| Aristoph 02/05/18 2:19:09 AM #28: | pikachupwnage posted... Aristoph posted...I had 15 teeth pulled in one surgery, including 4 impacted wisdom teeth. They knocked me out, and I woke up in my recliner at home. They gave me a bottle of pain meds, but I didn't take any of them. Even with 15 teeth removed, it didn't really hurt much at all. Just a sort of dull ache for a few days. Yeah...my teeth were massively crooked. Like it would take a solid 20 minutes of flossing and I still wouldn't have gotten everything out of all the little cracks and crevices between my teeth. It made no difference how much I would brush, floss, or rinse. Every single time I went to the dentist I'd have another cavity. I tried to get braces as a kid, but I had a really bad gag reflex and every time they'd press the putty onto my teeth it would make me gag and I would throw up and ruin the mold. And there's only so many times you can strap a 12 year old into a chair and make him puke on himself before he tells you to fuck off (for me it was 3 times, fwiw). After that I just stopped caring. And eventually just stopped brushing altogether. By the time I was 24 half my teeth were rotted, some of them cracked, and I think 7 of them had exposed nerves. I physically couldn't eat things as basic as an apple because if I had tried to bite into it I'd probably have taken a tooth out. I pretty much never smiled or laughed for fear of people seeing how nasty my teeth were. Then my brother got engaged and asked me to be his best man. There was no way I was going to ruin my brother's wedding pictures by not even being able to smile, and there was also no way I was going to let him down and not be there for him on the biggest day of his life. So I decided to finally do something about it and got dental implants. Best decision of my life, tbh. They pulled the front 5 along with the back molar and wisdom tooth on either side on my upper jaw, as well as both molars and the wisdom tooth from both sides on my lower jaw. Replaced the front 5 with an implant bridge (3 titanium screws) and the first molar on either side of the bottom with 1 screw each. They said if I felt there wasn't enough surface on just the first set of molars for chewing properly they could go back in and add screws & implants for the second molars later if needed, but I haven't had any issues at all so we didn't do the second molars. They look fantastic. I never worry about being self-conscious because of my smile anymore. They feel like real teeth, too. I know they're there and even I have a hard time telling the difference. People are always shocked when they find out they're fake. And they're pretty hardcore badass to boot. The ceramic they use for the implants is so strong you can literally take a hammer and drive it into a block of wood like a nail without chipping them. And the titanium screws are cemented into the jawbone so firmly that if someone were to grab them with a pair of pliers and rip them out, they would actually take a chunk of my jawbone out before the screws came loose. XD --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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