Monday, January 16, 2012

Wisdom Teeth removal!?

This is for full anesthesia if you are only getting local this won't be much help, but I strongly recommend getting full anesthesia, it's much easier to be unconscious during the whole procedure. You go to the office the doctor talks with you about the procedure and then they take you to the operating room. You lay down in a chair and they put straps over your arms (so they don't move while you are unconscious) then if you want they give you laughing gas (to help with the discomfort) and put in an IV (the needle is kind of big, just don't look). Then they start the IV fluids, which feel really cold in your arm. Then they put the anesthetic mask over your nose and ask you to count back from 10 or 20 or 100 or something like that. You won't get very far before it's lights out. While I was out I didn't even dream, I was just straight up out. So for me it was like I closed my eyes for a few seconds and a few hours ped. Next thing you know you'll be waking up usually your parent/s will be there. Then the help you up. You'll be really out of it. You'll shuffle back to the car. Go home and sleep. After that your mouth will hurt quite a lot but they give you Viccoden and that works miracles. I was out of it for a few days, but I've seen people up in the afternoon after the surgery (not really a good idea) it's best if you have a weekend minimum to recover. And you'll have to irrigate your mouth; basically they give you a syringe that squirts water and you fill it with hot salt water and spray it in the back of your mouth to prevent any infection (you can't brush back there - OUCH). And a few weeks later the stitches will dissolve and they'll come right out (which is kind of nasty, just spit them out if you can) and before you know it you'll be good as new. But really it's not that bad. You'll do fine.

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