Tell me about impacted wisdom teeth removal in hospital

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Went to get it out this morning as planned and they did one of those 360 x rays, saw how deep and wide the tooth is and think that it’s sitting on a main nerve so won’t touch it. I’ve now been referred to the hospital for a CT scan to take a closer look where the nerve is.

Do they always put you to sleep for impacted wisdom teeth?

thanks

My adult son had 3 impacted wisdom teeth out last month. Day case under GA through his work medical insurance.
The procedure was straightforward and we picked him up afterwards and brought him home for a week as he lives with a friend in a flat share and needed some parental looking after!
He had quite a lot of pain and swelling but kept up the pain relief and was given precautionary antibiotics.
After 2 days lying around he felt well enough to WFH and went back to the office after a week.
Two wounds fully healed within 2 weeks and one took a bit longer as the stitches dislodged but all fine now.

I had mine out at the hospital this time last year after the scans to assess where my nerve was.

I was asked if I wanted it done under GA, which I did. But I assume given they asked the question, it must be possible, subject to the nerve, to have it without GA.

Had two of mine removed a few years back privately with my medical insurance. I opted to put under as didn’t fancy being awake for the surgery. I also had issues due to nerves etc and was actually told the NHS wouldn’t do the surgery due to this. However privately they did all the X-rays and scans and were confident it wouldn’t be an issue. All went fine until I tried to eat a take away about 3 days after surgery and dislodged the clot that had formed in my tooth socket. Cue lots of pain and the start of an infection! So my only advice is be really careful what you eat post surgery and take care of yourself! Good luck x

If it’s the aftermath you’re worried about just make sure you stick to the painkillers you’re given even when you think you don’t need them and also stick to eating what they tell you too. I didn’t and caused some issues which was entirely my fault.

Oh god 😂 can I ask why it was horrific? I like to know as I’m autistic and will wind myself up overthinking it all

Good to know, was it a proper ct scan ? I could see the nerve on the xray, and the tooth itself looked massive

Yes, thanks to these threads I was also paranoid about dislodging clots, dry socket, etc. but my dentist told me that as my teeth were impacted and the gum would be cut to remove them and stitched, there was no open socket to dislodge a clot from so not to worry about that.

Its just feels like they are going to physically rip your head off

I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth. One of which had a nerve running too close to the root so they won't touch it (I had to have the cone beam CT to confirm this) they removed the other 3 under local. They wanted to don't in 2 sittings but I asked for all 3 at once and they reluctantly agreed. It was fine. Some pain a couple of days later but no issues after. So much happier with all out and had very little issues with the one they had to leave.

30 years ago they wanted to do one of mine that is inaccessible. They would have to cut part of my jaw to get to it. Didn´t go back. As a result my perfect bracket teeth now aren´t so perfect. They wanted to it with local. I was 18 and said no way.

Mine was also close to a nerve and impacted, and one dental surgeon at the place I went was wary about not doing it in hospital, and was talking about drills and breaking the tooth up into pieces etc.
Another more experienced surgeon, who worked in the hospital 4 days a week doing more complex cases and did one day a week at the private dental place I went, had it out literally 90 seconds after the local anaesthetic took effect. No ill effects at all, just some pain as you’d expect.

I had an x-ray on my first hospital appointment. Then they sent me for an MRI (lie down big tunnel machine) and some sort of other scan I don't recall the name of, where I was sat up in a chair and a machine went around me (was at two different places).