I thought being 21 was a good thing..

Other than the usual mishaps of being a 20 to 21-year-old (insert favorite coming-of-age story here), it seems that it is around this time in a person's life that the wisdom teeth start to rear their ugly heads.

Oh and how ugly they be.

According to the kind dentist (and he was really quite likable), wisdom teeth usually start to surface when someone is around 20-21 years old.

All of a sudden, the reason behind that two-week-long sore at the back of my lower jaw (on the left side) was all too clear.

The x-rays back the theory up. And I'm scheduled to see an oral surgeon some time next month.

Something tells me it's gonna hurt. Like hell. The extraction of a wisdom tooth is one of those things that you can count on being really painful.

I wonder how much anaesthetic costs nowadays...

ps: Oh yeah, I'm back in the US again, if anyone cares.

Nicole Lee

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My friend Mark had to have all 4 of his wisdom teeth taken out at once. The good news, it hardly hurt much at all with the anaesthetic, bad news was that he was so doped up from the anaesthetic he doesn't remember anything that happened the next day and a half after the extractions, which sometimes isn't so bad. :-)

Good to have you back.

A.J.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 06:05:03 GMT, [email] wrote:

Mine came out pretty nice. Still, one hasn't surfaced yet. I have a nice, big mouth (in more ways than one). ;)

My first was cutting itself out when I was a sixteen year old riding (and occasionally driving) a pickup truck across the interstates from California to Colorado, traveling to my first real job (at a guest ranch, called Winding River Ranch, in Colorado).

I know. It's itches like hell.

To remove them, correct? I take it your mouth isn't be enough to handle them. I never even saw a dentist about it.

Naw, they'll pump your mouth full of novicane, and you have that fun experience of first not being able to feel (let alone move) your lip for an hour or so afterword, and then having that ccccooold feeling in said lip that just won't go away, however much you try to heat it. ;)

Oh. No dental insurance. Bad.

My sister had jaw surgery. I heard she was just plain murderously cantankerous with anyone who got near her just after she woke up. (She remembered none of it later.)

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:33:02 GMT, [email] (Tarvok) wrote:

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Well, the purpose of the visit to the oral surgeon is to see if I even need surgery done. Then if it's a go-ahead, another appointment is made. See, this is how dentists make money.

How bad?

Not so cheeringly, Nicole Lee

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 07:14:30 GMT, [email] (Nicole Lee) wrote:

Plus inform of the risks you're taking etc. Like permanent nerve damage, if you go under general anestetic the risk of not waking up...yes you realize what's going on and release the oral surgeon from blah blah blah.

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really? i have mine already. and i've still got two baby teeth. :-)

ouch.. good luck.

Nicole Lee said:

Hi, Nicole :)

Did you have a good vacation? It sounded good, from the parts you mentioned ...

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

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Nicole Lee wrote:

Not to rub this in or anything, but I supposedly have an utter lack of wisdom teeth. But what you said about the 20-21 age group being susceptible to this cursed molar affliction starts me worrying. . . . *stay gone stay gone stay gone* : )

If the phrase "cutting your wisdom teeth" means to "attain maturity or discretion", and mine never appear. . . what conclusions am I supposed to draw from that?!?

Just some more random ramblings to add to this discussion.

Good luck with your teeth.

Jan

Greg Harrison wrote in message news:[email]...

Yes, Nicole, hope it's bearable. I sympathise: I had extensive dental work (bridge, caps, etc.), which my dentist felt was, most likely, the result of long-term effects of a skiing accident.

Abd welcome back, btw, Nicole.

Martin.

And I've only got three (apparently my bottom left wisdom tooth just doesn't exist). Does that mean I'm only going to be 3/4 as wise as everyone else? Woe is me! However, I may be lucky and not have to have them out. So far the top two are almost all the way in and have caused me no problems at all yet (and I'm 18 currently). *crosses fingers*

That's what we're here for. :-)

--J.

Jessica L. wrote:

You sound like me. I had three wisdom teeth too and I got them all in when I was 19 (so I was off a year...LOL). It hurt like hell getting them out, though. I didn't get anything but a local anaesthetic and some laughing gas, but I woke up long before the laughing gas was supposed to wear out and I could still feel them taking the teeth out and sewing me up. The worst of the worst parts, though, were the days after. Oh gosh, those areas were so sore...and I couldn't eat anything, I had to slurp massive amounts of soup for days...and when I finally started eating it took me so long to chew the meat from a little chicken leg that I was full by then...and having to change the gauze was horrible...and NOTHING would help me with the pain, not even my usual best friend Vicodin (which usually helps with my endometriosis)...and I'm SOOOOO glad I don't have to go through that again.

LI

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what about diane's back?

</pedantic mode> ;-)

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:33:46 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

I don't know WHAT it is, but it's festering

Kyle, he who means well The Shane Andrews of alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs

Jessica L. of ASOP (Association of Strange

It works the other way round. If you extrude your wisdom in the form of teeth, it follows there's less of it left inside your head.

I myself had no wisdom teeth of course, hence my continued brilliance beyond age 21.

-Shez.

so that explains how people acquire stupidity as they get older... I wonder if the wisdom they remove is "don't tell people they're opinion is worthless because they're too young to have opinions" and the one that says "don't say 'aww, cute, she has an opinion...' "

Dagny

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:53:28 GMT, [email] (Nicole Lee) wrote:

Heh, I had to have 'em out when I was 19 :/ No less than 4 impacted wisdom teeth, plus a few molars that hadn't erupted fully and needed a thin layer of skin removed. My mouth is *all* fucked up :)

Truthfully, it isn't too bad. As long as you don't bend over during the first two or three days after your surgery - I was under general so I didn't feel a thing during surgery (was a rather trippy experience - they asked me a question and I went unconcious in the middle of the answer). The most annoying thing I'd say was the fact that I couldn't brush my teeth for 2 or 3 days (or eat solid food, or put my head down, or really rinse) because it would dislodge the clots :P

Pain-wise it wasn't awful IMO - but then I went through orthodonture and that pretty well inured me to all but the most spectacular mouth pains.

The entire procedure IIRC was in the 2 grand range(?) The surgeon I went to had a rather nice deferred payment plan without interest for the first year - helped the finances tremendously. Hmm...I'll have to pull out the documents to see how much it really cost...now I wanna know...

We care :)

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