Recovery of wisdom tooth surgery

Depends but around 4 days, generally. My first wisdom teeth surgery recovery was so painful I was screaming; then again as a gay teen I was very prone to drama.

You’ll be back to eating cock in no time.

Sympathy, OP. I had the same operation. It was decades ago and I still remember the pain after the anaesthetic wore off.

I could eat satisfactorily after about 4 days. I can't remember how long it was till you could really say "normally", as in tackling steak, iced drinks, chewing gum, etc without bother.

try warm or cold compresses, it really helps. I had a lower molar removed back in January and then had to have a bone spur removed a month later. It was agony. The compresses helped a lot. Take ibuprofen too.

I healed FAST. Had all four taken out in high school and ate a steak 3 days later with no pain. Didn’t even touch the pain meds they prescribed. I’ve also seen friends and relatives takes two weeks to recover, so I guess it depends.

It's the having it broken while it's still embedded in your gum that makes the difference, R4. Yeeow.

Not to mention they cut mine with a saw, and the noise of that right in my ear just added to the horror. Then they got pliers and cracked it. It's enough to give you PTSD.

Got it! Thanks R5

had a lower molar removed that was mostly 90% crown and 10% remaining tooth... had it (the crown and root canal which was very very painful i might add) 2 years ago , recently in march it started aching badly, so the dentist decided to just pull the whole thing and it couldn't be saved...

lost track of how many shots they gave me and it still hurt like hell, the dentist felt like he was trying to pry it out with pliers, for whatever reason, it simply didn't want to come out.. very traumatic it was..he kept on asking me and was "shocked" that i still was feeling pain after all the shots they gave me to numb the area.. he acted like he didn't believe me...my head was jerking, i was holding on to the arms of the chair "white knuckling" it.... why was this particular tooth with a crown so damn hard to get out? why did the previous root canal on that tooth hurt like hell? why did it started aching (infected somehow?)?

Wishing you a speedy recovery OP... Tis a dreadful path to full recovery... at least in my case. I lived on Scotch, and soup for a week and a half. I didn't have complicating infection, or an abcess, however I did develop dry socket. It was subsequently packed with Clove (Eugenol)... that helped numb it up somewhat, but Scotch, Tomato Soup, and Beef Consommé were the only things that tasted good with the overwhelming clove flavour.

Perhaps ask your Oral Surgeon about an antibiotic for the boil you describe... an abcess is nothing to mess around with.

Perhaps this might make you laugh through your tears, OP.

Be very careful when you start eating again OP. I had a similar issue as you where one of my wisdom teeth was impacted and it left what must have been a fairly sizeable cavity once removed. I started eating at about the 4 day mark and a week later I fractured my jaw eating a cracker! I was being careful too. The pain was very bad, took about 8 weeks to heal and my jaw was never really the same again.

Feel better soon.

For me it took about a week. I had all four taken out on a Friday and nothing but brutal pain for the first three days. I had the stitches taken out the following Friday.

I have a pretty high pain threshold, but when I had my first wisdom tooth extracted. I suffered severe pain for two days after extraction. I thought it might be because I have horrible twisted roots on my teeth, but the pain was unrelenting so I called my dentist cousin, and she told me to come to the office immediately. She found that the site of the extraction was infected, and antibiotics fixed me up in no time

The other wisdom teeth were extracted under conscious sedation, by a specialist in dental surgery, and everything was fine. Very little discomfort at all.

It's so interesting to see the varied experiences with wisdom teeth removal. I have an uncle who's an oral surgeon and he removed all four of mine at the same time. I was in my second year of law school then so I was about twenty-four. He hooked me up to an IV of Demerol and put me into "Twilight Sleep" and that was all she wrote. I had no pain when I woke up and very, very little afterward. Even so, I scarfed the hell out of those pain pills! The three days after surgery were essentially a sedation vacation for me.

My mother had all four wisdom teeth, my father only two.

I was born with three.

Had them all out at once but developed dry socket the upper left. Now THAT was painful.

Mine was pretty painless. They were all perpendicular to how they should be, so I knew I needed them out, and went to an oral surgeon to have them removed before they were causing any problems (was also a senior in college, so was not sure what my dental insurance would be after graduation - this was before you could remain on your parents insurance until 26).

I did develop a gum boil - which was more annoying than painful - due to either a bone particle or food getting in the place of incision. Unfortunately, I am not sure antibiotics will clear that up, I think they need to reopen the incision and clean it out (that is what they did for mine). I will say the second incision healed even more quickly.

I was lucky in that I did not need the codeine prescribed to me and could eat normally the next day - although perhaps I did that too quickly, hence the gum boil,

“Gumboil”????? Dude.

R12/R13 I had the fancy surgeon, and was completely put out with Propofol. This private clinic specialised in facial reconstruction and maxillofacial surgeries....several facial plastic surgeons on staff, in a Spa-like setting, with luxurious recovery rooms. I still suffere terribly, despite it not being a brutal yank job.

My tooth was coming in sideways, and was already half through the gum. It was putting pressure on the last molar. The surgeon said it had the deepest, most twisted roots he had ever encountered. He later told me he was afraid they were going to have to "sacrifice" the adjacent molar, as it would have made the process easier. Thankfully, that did not happen.

I was thirty-five years-old at the time. I was meant to have all five, yes five widom teeth removed when I had braces... I politely declined... Never had problems with the other remaining four. (Kinna Hora).

Wow! Propofol, R17? That's hardcore. I have to say that given the choice between Demerol and Propofol I'd choose the Demerol, lol. I was in braces for two years and they were afraid my wisdom teeth would jack all that up but it turned out to be not the case. I'm glad you never had any issues. We are definitely among the lucky ones. Lots of folks here seem to have suffered.

I'm R13. ^^^

I lived on smoothies for about a week.

OP it got infected. This is not a part of the normal healing process.

You’re going to need an antibiotic and possibly have it scrapped out.

R18 /R13 I suppose we are very lucky indeed. I remember choking when the cost of anaesthesia was discussed. My insurance company would not pay, yet my surgeon explained, and showed me how the roots were perilously close to an important nerve. It was like the line of a curtain swag, and the tooth had connections, or very near. I was told how it makes it so much easier for the surgeon when one is put out. He explained it really can be brutal, considering they do need to "manhandle" the patients who have impacted teeth. Allegedly many people even with proper pain control, or twilight jerk, reflexively.... and it can cause serious problems.

I'm so glad I was put out, it was like it never happened really! I recall them having a rather difficult time rousing me though. I had been left to lie down, still out cold in the recovery whilst my boyfriend at the time was waiting for me. They literally slapped me silly getting me to come round. They put a heart monitor on, as well as an oxygen sensor. I wish I could have been completely put out like that for my colonoscopy!

R22 I have the opposite reaction to anesthetic. I'm difficult to put under, but when I wake up, it's sudden, and I'm talkative, and I feel great.

Due to how mine were impacted (180 degrees of how they should be and surfaced at all), my dentist strongly recommended an oral surgeon and I was also out for the procedure. While I did later get an infection, it was pretty painless and was eating pretty normally the next day.

Unfortunately, I do think they will need to do something cleaning out the area where the gum boil is, although the healing from that will be a fraction of what it is from the original surgery.

Are your affairs in order, OP?

You should be taking a Z-pack (5-day broad spectrum antibiotic) and Oxycodone, OP.

Call the dentist if you don't have both.

You should ask your dentist which is cheaper: (1) extracting your wisdom teeth, or (2) using a ballpeen hammer to tap out all your teeth and getting plates.

I do hope you have some Oxycodone OP, doctors now are so afraid to prescribe narcotics, but in this instance they are necessary.

But get ready for the constipation.

Eat soft, ripe fruit and hydrate like hell while taking a stool softener.

You'll shit fine.

And if the fruit doesn't work those broad spectrum antibiotics will.

I was prescribed antibiotics a few days before the surgery, and continued to take them for some time after "just in case".... do they no longer prescribe antibiotics prophylactically for surgical procedures?

R31 I know it's listed as the most common side effect, but the numbers show low: only 3-4% of patients report the trots.

I had the Z-pack before a root canal two weeks ago that took 2.5 hours to complete (complicated root architecture, per the oral surgeon) and I only took one Oxycodone tablet that night. After that, Aleve covered the pain for the next day and the second day I needed nothing. No problem shitting, though.

First YOU GOT A TOOTH PULLED.

Stop making out like you had 'real' surgery

Second, it won't kill you to miss a meal or two.

Third, peanut butter and jelly

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[quote]I have the opposite reaction to anesthetic. I'm difficult to put under, but when I wake up, it's sudden, and I'm talkative, and I feel great.

That's the general reaction to Propofol.

R34 Other than the abcess, we have no clue how complicated his procedure was/is. In my case, a bit of dead bone had to be removed. It's not always so simple with these "stupid" wisdom teeth!

R35 Agree... once I did snap out of it, I went to lunch for soup, and a Scotch. The pain set in a bit later, after the numbing wore off, though I took pain pills after the soup. I definitely felt drugged and happy.

Once the pain really set in, I ended up having to take both the Rx Opiod and Ibuprofen.

I am proud to say I have all my wisdom teeth and they've never given me any trouble. At this point (I'm 62), all four of them have small cavities, but I have an old-fashioned dentist (read: not out to price-gouge) who told me not to disturb them unless they're painful. They're not.

But I have had a shitload of root canals and (I think) 10 crowns, I'm going to guess that R9 had a root that was missed during the root canal. A properly done root canal should take out all the nerves of the tooth and nothing should hurt it (in theory). But after one of my root canals, the endo called me back because I had five roots instead of four and they had to go back in and take out the one that they missed.

The first root canal I had was the most painful experience of my entire life, and I've broken a lot of bones and had a lot of surgery. Sorry to anyone who has to have extensive dental work.

Thank you R38, My fortune is in my mouth. I went to the dental school for an implant, and afterwards all those bitches gave me was a little packet of tylenol and and an ice cube tied in a gauze. Damn I had to run to Benny at the bodega to get a little supplement. No problems though, thank dog.