Pliers to the wisdom teeth

Got some teeth pulled. Novocaine hasn't worn off yet. Not too worried, I have a high pain tolerance. But I can't smoke hookah for 2 days, while the clots form and the healing begins. I'll be frustrated, sure, but they had to come out. They had cavities, were hard to clean, and I couldn't even chew with them. I'm glad to see those wisdom teeth go. The bottom ones are just fine, I chew with them normally. Oh, shit! I can't eat solid food for a few days either. Ah well. I saw the preceding days in dreams, that's normally a good sign. Some day I'll be more than myself.

 

So you get to pig out on ice cream for the next 2 days and get stoned on pain killers? Woot!

 

I'm not so lucky. I can't take anything with codeine in it due to my other meds, but I can take ibuprofen. I'm taking penicillin just in case of infection.
Honestly the way you describe it, it doesn't sound too bad. That on top of being sure it'll be a breeze has me just waiting for the clots to form. If anything bugs me right now, it's the taste of blood. The surgeon said that due to the wisdom teeth being top ones, there was a chance that his removal of said teeth would create a hole into my sinus cavity from my mouth, then they'd need to suture my gums closed. But, nothing like that happened. Oh, to be able to sleep for two days so I could smoke hookah.

 

Seriously? Did you go to a dental school to have them pulled by a first year?

I had mine pulled when I was 22. Both top and bottom ones. Completely healed over in about 2 days, but they gave me a week's worth of vicodin and told me to just eat ice cream and popsicles for the first day. They gave me this little syringe looking thing that you fill with water and squirt out the holes after every meal to prevent infections.

 

The organization of the dental clinic I went to (Easton Dental) is sub-par. They kept my mom waiting to hear whether or not I'd get the teeth removed, and while they had her waiting, fifteen minutes went by. This was enough time for the surgeon to anesthetize my mouth and remove the teeth. My mom, who had taken me to get the procedure done (due to my car not starting), had to go back to work. She didn't even know I had the teeth pulled until she saw me again, about twenty minutes after I had gotten there. They kept her waiting the entire time I was there. The front end of Easton Dental has no idea what's going on in the back, where patients are taken. They even had to x-ray my mouth again, because the first developments didn't show my upper wisdom teeth. For the time being, I have a bad dentist.

 

I had a similar experience with one of my wisdom teeth. I promised not to smoke for two days, lit up a cigarette as soon as I got out the door and then straight home for many pipes.

Just after having your wisdom teeth pulled is when you need a hookah the most.

 

I had 2 (or 3? I don't remember) of my wisdom teeth pulled. One remains, which I should arrange to get pulled, too, and one either never "sprouted", or was pulled so long ago I no longer remember ever having it.

That said, those teeh are pretty goddamn useless. And hard to keep clean.

 

Sounds like it, too.