The surgery has passed and so have the pain killers. I'm biting into a piece of gauze now and can't wait for the bleeding to stop, then I can take a nap and sleep off the pain a little. The surgery was largely painless but we had to try Plan B, which involved cutting the gums and stitching it back. It was painless then but the numbness in my lips is wearing off (I can stop doing my Cally Torres impersonations now, you know when she gets hammered by the chief and does that little thing with her lower lip) and biting into the gauze is causing me considerable pain.
Plan A explained the dentist, was to cut the tooth into 3 parts and not disturb the gums. I was expecting to get jabbed in the gums with some syringe to numb the gums but the public will be glad to know they don't do that sort of thing anymore. Or it didn't feel like it. Then he started the drilling, which resulted in some drilled tooth dust flying all over. It smelled really bad. I wanted to puke. After that, he tried to apply some force to loosen the tooth. The feeling of some guy applying that sort of pressure to your skull to get a hardened, mostly fully grown tooth loosened is really scary. No pain again, but when the assistant is holding your head down and the dentist pushing against you with a force that could drive a screwdriver through your lower gums and out the other side, you start to panic. I felt nauseous for a while strangely, but recovered and we got back to business.
From that point onwards I just closed my eyes and prayed. I didn't really want to see anything. I couldn't feel what was happening and I didnt want to know. I don't close my eyes watching horror movies but this isn't a show I paid good money to enjoy watching. I just wanted it over with. I felt a string stretched across my not numb and fully functional right lip. Still eyes closed, I knew we had gone to Plan B.
After the surgery, the dentist showed me the extraction, all 4 sections in varying sizes of the mangled bloody tooth. He asked "You want?" but I said he could keep it. He also took out a little of the bone that surrounded the tooth and I should be feeling sore since there is a fractured bone remaining in the gums. Nice. I'm going back on the 8th to have the sutures removed. So kids, when it's time for your wisdom teeth to grow, as soon as you feel the pressure of growth, get rid of the cancer! It gets worse when you're 30. :P
Ok gotta go change the gauze and monitor the bleeding.
2 comments:
*yuck* I so know what you mean when u feel like puking. I feel that all the time when I'm in a dentist even though I'm just having my teeth cleaned... Haha... my dentist sure has a sense of humour eh - he asked me whether i wanted to keep my tooth too and I'm like 'Huh? for what?'
Anyway, glad that it went well and hope that the healing process will be fast. take care k.
Hi thanks! :) Day 1 was horrible, but day 2 onwards is better. If only my other tooth wasn't starting up.
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