Had six done at once with local anesthesia. Yup, whole two supernumerary teeth.
It sure was an experience that I wouldn’t want to experience again.
stundents 😭
Someone always profiting from your misery, is why we can’t have nice things.
“wisdom teeth”
Dumbest fucking teeth!
i thought that was a hand with too many fingers. teeth make more sense.
That back tooth be like 🤌
I had them out at 18 in the Navy. At first I didn’t want to have it done, but then looking at the X-ray, I was all about it.
I’m german. I didn’t pay jackshit to get my wisdom teeth removed. As soon as a dentist deems it medically necessary, it’s fully covered by even the most basic health insurance. Even if it’s prophylactic.
Call it communism all you want, but it’s great.As soon as a dentist deems it medically necessary, it’s fully covered by even the most basic health insurance.
Yeah, that’s the joke. Americans pull wisdom teeth left and right regardless of whether or not it poses a medical risk, it’s a part of their culture. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/no-you-probably-don-t-need-to-get-your-wisdom-teeth-removed-ever
Anyone smart enough to be here knows socialized healthcare is better for people than the alternative.
For me, they said my wisdom tooth was too impacted, so unless it was causing pain O should just leave it because removing it could damage a nerve and leave part of my face numb.
And I’m in the US, and dentists are constantly trying to upcharge you for whitening and other stuff, so I took that warning seriously.
So is yours still in there? Because I was told that just a couple of weeks ago and am scared it’s going to cause problems in the future. (Am in Austria with general health care though)
I’ve seen several dentists for a similar situation. The last one said that if they go by the book they should remove it. However if it’s all under the gum, not causing any pain or getting infected, then they’d recommend letting it be but getting x-rays every two years to monitor the situation, since otherwise it’s quite a proper surgery.
Ok, yeah thanks for the reply! Since I know that I’m a little nervous about it. But guess it’s not uncommon so hope it won’t flare up when I’m somewhere without dental care.
Another perspective here, I had my bottom wisdom teeth out over 20 years ago and they decided to leave my top ones in because of blood vessels wrapped around them or something. Have never had any issues other than my teeth being a bit crooked.
Can Germans stop wanking off about their country all the time? You guys have basic healthcare compared to many countries, only reason you don’t realise it, is that you are too Americanised. Women have to pay for their own mammography here for fucks sake
I didn’t read that tone as overly nationalistic. I read it like someone saying, “My dentist makes bank on wisdom teeth removal.” And this person responding with, “Yo, that’s wild. Mine doesn’t charge anything for procedures like that. You should consider trying my dentist’s system.”
I didn’t get any vibes that the poster above was claiming Germany has the perfect system or the best system. Just that people in Germany don’t pay for necessary dental, like in the US.
Idk, though. I’ve been known to miss subtlety before.
You didn’t miss subtlety, the person to which you are replying is the “infinite egocentric snowflake” type. Makes everything about them, is sensitive, kinda common online, but yeah, annoying.
They’re always under attack, even when alone, it seems exhausting.
Er, your dentist still gets paid.
Obviously. But people are sharing how much they paid in the comments, so I figured to do the same.
Yeah, but your comment was still kinda pointless in the context of this meme/joke. (Bin auch Besserwisser.)
Its relevant. Am German, had to find this comment to get that this is about the cost of healthcare xD Germans don’t even think about health as something that costs money. I certainly don’t.
Yeah, but the dentist will still get paid and he will also get filthy rich in Germany. The joke works in Germany just as well as in the US…
Let’s not pay the guy that starts working ten years later than everybody else because he needs to study forever to be a competent doctor. Why would we do that, plenty of people willing to work without pay.
How is that relevant now?
So?
Why is the tooth Italian and what’s wrong with an Italian tooth??
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Had 4 done at once. Because asthmatic, had to be done at the hospital because of general anesthetic. 2/10
Was told to eat protein rich diet to support healing, but couldn’t chew meats like steak for months due to the risk of breaking my jaw. (Big holes left in bones when teeth removed.)
Invented meat smoothie.
1 steak, medium rare Montreal steak spice. 4 slices bacon 1 spicy italian pork sausage 1 chicken thigh deboned. Salt Water Yogurt
10/10 surprisingly good.
Meat smoothie sounds terrible. Really terrible.
How about the mango mahi mahi smoothie I enjoyed instead.
My doc only takes 2 out at the same time (from one side), so the patient can chew. 4 sounds risky
Even if they only do two at a time, if any of them are impacted into your bones, you won’t be able to chew. Something about physics but chewing anywhere in your mouth can cause the weak spot to crack.
Source: I had all 4 removed and one was impacted. Dentist told me I shouldn’t be chewing on one ‘safe’ side cause still can break my jaw.
I had all four done with just a couple benzos and local anesthetic. Granted they were reasonably accessible and not impacted. I have vague recollections of making a pun while they were “elevating” one of the teeth. I don’t remember the pun, and that’s the worst part.
You do realize that whey protein shakes are a thing, right?
Not to mention protein from sources other than meat… quinoa, lentils, whole grains, etc.
You do realize whey allergy is a thing for some people, right?
Downvoting me won’t make it any less true.
But mine was good.
You learn to love protein shakes.
Maybe ya’ll been doing it wrong and need to learn to love meat smoothies?
You really don’t? Ever met a person that actually enjoys the taste of them? Like the least offensive taste is tasteless and it still tastes like milky-chalk? Mb it’s tolerable if you have like 10 different flavours and can change them every other day. Yet there are some great protein bars, weird!
What a horrible day to be literate
HORK
Look, I ain’t calling you a liar or anything, but that’s going on the list with balut as the second thing that I won’t try at least once.
The big holes aren’t the issue in this case, the issue is that your jaw was under a lot of strain from the pulling and yanking and microfractures are common under these circumstances.
Italian tooth
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What’s that for? 🤔
For gesturing in Italian, of course 🤌
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“Words can never hurt me” mfs haven’t had their world rocked by the sign language double ender
I spent way too long looking for Saddam Hussein.
Where was he?
In every corner of my expensively empty mouth apparently
Both my bottom wisdom teeth were this impacted and my dentist was screaming to take them out now. I didn’t and for some reason they decided to both just rotate and ended up fine.
One of mine is like that. The dentist said to just ignore it unless it gives me trouble, or if I’m planning extended stay in the developing world, then I should get it removed before I go, just in case.
My dad’s are like that and he went to a dentist a few years ago that told him “we need to get those out of there”. My dad was just like “why? They haven’t a problem til now and I’m almost 70.” He did not go back to that guy.
Damn. I went to the dentist for the first time ever (37) and my dentist was cool about it. She said if they’ve never bothered me, who gives a shit at this point. Fixed my cavities and told me I was awesome.
Same, they told me I would need oral surgery and to break my jaw open. No thanks. Occasionally they twinge and hurt, but I suppose I haven’t died yet.
“Impacted” sounds like unbearable pain. No? Got a good story about mine. Bear with me.
Got my top 2 out because they erupted sideways, actually cut my finger, thought it was a stuck Dorito. Shit had to go. Got the bottom 2 while I was under general.
First time completely under. Dentist said I wasn’t going home until my gf could drive me. Great! Woke at home with her hovering over my face. She was a little bitchy when I asked how I got home.
“You don’t remember that? Nothing?!”
I had refused to leave the comfy office bed, fought and cussed. Whole waiting room heard:
“FUCK YOU! I’ll take you back there and do to you what they did to me!”
Jesus. (Nurses right about now: Yep. And I know OP is a guy.)
Loved when my impacted wisdom tooth that looked closely to that exploded in my jaw in 2019. Great times. Real glad my surgery was in February of 2020.
Do they still give you an almost 2 week script of hydrocodone after? I remember watching a lot of magic school bus high as fuck when I was younger for a few days after.
You mean the dentist who, when seeing me, told me immediately they don’t prescribe narcotics at that office and then immediately looked guilty when I said that’s fine, I just wanted a scrip for the big ibuprofen because taking 4 of the small ones at a time made my stomach sick?
No. No they did not.
Ugh, I hate that presumption among healthcare professionals. We’re not really in pain, we’re all just dRuG sEeKiNg.
I mean, I came to you with a medical problem, which is often solved by or improved by medication, so I guess technically, yes?
And if I’m in such pain that I require narcotics, wouldn’t you rather I see a doctor and take it with their supervision, or that I go find a dealer on the street?
I understand there are some people with addiction issues, but allowing a patient (especially one with no drug abuse history) to suffer, on the off chance they might use pain killers for fun, is so fucked up. I already have to jump through hoops to get ADHD medication for the same reason. It seems that in the US, you’re assumed to be addicted by default.
I get treated like a drug seeker even when I’m openly allergic to opiates. And yeah the adhd meds are such a pain in the ass to the point of counterproductivity
The dentist slipped when pulling one of my non-impacted teeth and hit me in the back of the throat with his whole body weight. He prescribed me 10 days of hydrocodone and when I called back and said the default dose still left me with a sore throat he called me in another 10 days of a higher dose.
Needless to say, my throat didn’t hurt anymore and I played WoW a lot (~2007)
Good ole days haha. Doctors totally overestimate the addiction potential of a short term prescription and underprescribe now.
I was told I could go to school the day after my wisdom teeth were taken. I took my dose of hydrocodone before heading to school and have no memory of that day at all. I never took the rest. Somehow I had no pain whatsoever after my wisdom teeth were removed and it was almost as if it never happened. Other people I know needed to take a week off.
Same. I barely even took Tylenol and was fine
When I got all 4 out at once, they gave me 4 pills, each is supposed to last about 12 hours. I had to do the math on how to efficiently take them on a longer schedule than once every 12 hours to minimize the pain spike when I switched to ibruprofin.
I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.
Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.
Dude. How wealthy are You, that You can afford gold? I have a ceramic tooth and could barely afford that.
I’m poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I’d need it all my life. I guess in his defense I’m mid 30’s now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?
My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can’t even afford to get finished. It’s been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I’m still waiting… Not to mention I’ve been laid off…
So yeah, I’m just as broke as most of my generation, lol.
I lucked out even more by not having any wisdom teeth at all.
When did they break out? You better take excellent care of them or they’ll rot and have to be pulled anyways
A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.
I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.
Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.
Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.
Had this surgery done this march for two teeth… 2 weeks on painkillers. Here in Denmark all I got was store bought painkillers… ibuprofen and paracetamol… and a bill for 8600DKK ~1000$
0/10 - will not recommend
