Anyone with experience of all wisdom teeth being removed under GA?

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DD1 (16) has to have all her wisdom teeth removed tomorrow in preparation for corrective jaw surgery next year. It will be done in hospital under a general anaesthetic, and she'll be staying there one night for monitoring - no idea how normal that is, but we're not in the UK. Fortunately, she only has three wisdom teeth hiding in her jaw (only just discovered that from x-ray), so we only have three-quarters of the problem to deal with .

Anyone or their DC had something similar? What level of pain was there to deal with, and how long did it last? What pain meds worked best?How long did you/they need to be on soups and mush?

Goodness that's awful about the lady in the next bed

I definitely had to eat soft food for a week at least, mashed potato was v helpful (I may have said that earlier). Can you get any co-codamol? I was taking that and something else and spent that first week relaxing in bed watching scrubs back to back (it seemed somehow appropriate, after having dd2 I got hooked on house). If you have a pregnancy or v pillow they are really helpful to support your dds neck to sleep and not rest on her jaw.

A friend of mine had her jaw broken this year and she was eating solids before they told her she would but i have not much more info than that she is happy she had it done though!!

I hope your dd is at least relieved for a while that this part is out of the way