Impacted wisdom tooth removal...

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I'm looking for some positive stories...I'm booked in with my dentist (who is also a dental surgeon) to have a very impacted wisdom tooth removed and I'm scared.
It's a lower one, growing sideways, and it's becoming infected more and more, and causing pain, so it has to come out.
I've already had the molar next to it taken out and I have an irrational fear of my face kind of collapsing on that side if the wisdom tooth is removed too.
Any positive stories very welcome please!!
I'd love to have it done under a general but they won't do that for just one tooth.
I'm booked in for a Friday morning and need to be back again work Monday morning...it'll be fine, right???? 🧐

I had my first taken out under local, and then the remaining three under general all together. Recovery time was much less for the single extraction. Be careful to avoid 'dry socket' by not disturbing the blood clot. I wasn't told much about aftercare, and really wish I had been aware of the consequences, so google it to be on safe side and take precautions. Other than that, the process was fine, and I could easily have avoided the dry socket complications if they had just mnetioned it.

My DD had all four of her wisdom teeth out last autumn. The bottom two were growing in horizontally and I feared how she'd be afterwards, as they were doing it with sedation, not general. She amazed me. Within a couple of days you'd have hardly known she'd had them removed. They had to break the bottom wisdom teeth to get them out, but apart from the stitches and a little bruising, she was fine.

A few days ago I had an upper wisdom tooth removed, unbeknownst to me it had become infected, the nerve had died and I went to the dentist after the tooth cracked and half of it fell out.
It was quick and painless, although there is still something brutal and shocking about having a tooth ripped out!
I felt pretty rough on the day I had it out, took painkillers- co-codamol- in the evening. Since then I've been improving and haven't needed painkillers.
I'd say you'll be ok for work on the Monday, unless it's a physically demanding job?

I had mine taken out under sedation. I was 19 and it was the first dental procedure I'd ever had, and it was going to be a fairly complicated one as it was so close to a nerve and had to be drilled into three separate parts to then have each removed. No way was I doing that without sedation. With sedation it was fine, barely remember it.

I had a partially erupted impacted wisdom tooth removed under sedation at a dental hospital. The root had wrapped around the nerve. I also needed antibiotics afterwards as I had a dry socket (prompted another weekend visit to another dental hospital on a Saturday morning - I had to call nhs 24 for the appt). I had a raging infection and high heart rate afterwards and felt ill/out of it for the rest of the day following extraction. Not positive sorry but I got through it and no issues since. You'll be ok.

Thank you. I have heard of the horror or dry socket and I'll be very careful.

This is the kind of thing I want to hear!!! I hope I'm like your daughter!

Half of it fell out - bloody hell!!
I've had an upper one removed years ago and it was fine...I know lower ones are more tricky, though.
I'm a teacher so not very physical job.

I'm just having local anaesthetic...

I have to start a course of antibiotics 48 hours before the procedure and they'll continue for a few days afterwards...your experience sounds awful, you poor thing.

I had this and it hurt but generally it was fine; I did the salt water rinse and was careful with what I ate. I got co codamol for the pain which was better at managing it than paracetamol and made sure I took painkillers regularly I think for about a week. My face did swell a bit so might be worth wanting people at work but it wasn’t ridiculous.
I was quite anxious and the GP gave me diazepam to take before which made it much better

Regarding dry socket, my dentist told me not to rinse my mouth at all for some hours after the extraction (so is not to disturb the blood clot) and so I drank using a straw, I later found out that this is a bad idea because it creates suction which can disturb the clot, the same applies for smoking or vaping.

I have some diazepam and will definitely take one beforehand.
How long before you can not worry about disturbing the blood clot??

I think you can relax after 48 hours as far as the blood clot is comcerned. It's interesting they have prescribed antibiotics beforehand as a precaution, so infection shouldn't be a risk. You will be fine!

Thank you! I'm not in the UK so maybe the standard procedure (the preventative antibiotics) is a little different. But also, my dentist has had to prescribe me antibiotics twice before for an infection in this tooth so maybe that's part of the reason. I imagine if I arrived and the tooth was infected he would not be able to extract it (or something like that!).