This summarizes my Christmas break schedule :P. Had the root canal today, in less than a week I have all 4 wisdom teeth removed, and then soon after I get radioactive iodine treatment. I've been relatively inactive due to finals and getting back home.
The root canal was not bad at all, honestly. Took a little under 2 hours for the entire procedure and the temporary shit they stuff on my tooth (they couldn't pour one because it was bleeding quite a bit.) I really would not be nervous about it at all if I were to get another one. Aside from the initial needle in the gums, there's very little pain, and even that is just a pinch. The worst part is leaving your mouth open for so long and having a mouth that's so dry. I'm already on tabs, Spector, but no can do :P. Well, I'm not taking them anymore.
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Oh yea Thanatos, and I wasn't sore at all later that day (as long as I didn't bite down on the tooth). Mine was even a bit more than a root canal. He cut on my wisdom tooth too to make it easier for removal.
Last edited by Willkillforfood; 2008-12-25 at 11:26 AM.
I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled at once. They knocked me out with some sort of IV drug. I remember counting backwards from 10 to about 8 then waking up. I originally didn't feel any pain at all and thought "SHit this is it?". A couple hours later is when I noticed that they had LOADED my jaw up with novacane and that I couldn't feel ANYTHING there and had been drooling on myself unconciously for the past few hours.
The iodine treatment is for a malfunctioning thyroid. I just went in today for a temporary crown. They had to deaden me up again. I'm going to be on a valium, steroids, and a couple other drugs to premedicate for the wisdom teeth.
I blended a cheeseburger with yogurt and ate it after my teeth got pulled. It was more to gross out my parents but it wasn't ALL that bad. Better then the blood. BLECH.