The wisdom is lost

I went yesterday to get my wisdom teeth out. It wasn't too bad. To tell you the truth, the worst part was getting the shots in my mouth in the beginning. I don't mind needles or cuts or anything unless it is in my mouth. Then it gives me the heeby-jebbies. My heart rate went up and my body got all tingly when he started poking around in there. At first I thought it was some sort of reaction to the medicine, but then I realized I was just being a wus.

The top teeth came out just fine. They probably took only 20 or 30 seconds a piece. He just reached in there with a little lever and pushed around until they broke. Then he put some pliers in my mouth and yanked them out. No big deal. The only discomfort I had was pressure on my jaw bone. It felt like it was going to rip out of socket or something. Which was interesting because in my consent forms there was a line that said "Fractured jaw is possible". What!? This made a me a little touchy on the jaw-bone discomfort, but it was fine.

The bottom teeth were quite a pain in the butt. They were both exposed and didn't appear that they would be any more difficult to remove than the top teeth. Unfortunatley appearances were deceiving. The doc said my teeth were really anchored to the bone well. Good for the rest of my teeth, bad for removing these. My bottom right tooth even had two extra roots! So he had to do some cutting and drilling to get it all out. Ugh!

So I'm back now and things are going fairly well. I bled quite a bit and I don't think the blood clots held in there very well. At least some of the clot came out. So that means I might get dry socket. I'll blame mom. She got dry socket with hers so it must be genetic. Right now I'm fine though (thank you Codine). I'll keep you posted.