I have to go to hospital for tooth removal

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Hello I have been refered to the hospital for 2 teeth being extracted. I let them become decayed because of dentist phobia and have suffered pain and now the gums have slightly grew over the teeth.
Can any one explain the procedure at the hospital as I am very nearvous and will I be okay?

They should offer sedation, so if you are nervous definitely take that. They will do a consultation appointment first usually, take some xrays and ask you if you want sedation or not. At the extraction appointment you will be numbed with a local anaesthetic, then they will take the teeth out, then you can go home, if you are sedation you will need someone to drive you home and stay with you for 24 hours.

You’ll feel so much better when they’re out. The procedure shouldn’t be painful at all and you’ll be absolutely fine.
Do make sure you have some lovely strong painkillers for afterwards as it may ache a bit for a day or so. And just take it easy.

Follow whatever advice they give you on avoiding dry socket. It's where the blood clot fails to form or falls out. I didn't listen the first time I had a tooth out and it's so painful. I had another one out recently, followed their advice afterwards and it was fine. They'll tell you when you can start rinsing with salt water.

1. Avoiding intake of hot fluids for one to two days. Hot fluids raise the local blood flow and thus interfere with organization of the clot. Therefore, cold fluids and foods are encouraged, which facilitate clot formation and prevent its disintegration.
2. Avoiding smoking. It reduces the blood supply, leading to higher incidence of painful socket.
3. Avoiding drinking through a straw or spitting forcefully as this creates a negative pressure within the oral cavity leading to an increased chance of blood clot instability.
4. It isn't mentioned in the official advice I received but avoid grainy foods such as rice and couscous for a few days as the bits can lodge in the socket.

Good luck and protect your clot 😀

I had a partially erupted wisdom tooth removed recently with just local anaesthetic by a dental surgeon. They had it out in literally under 90 seconds. I couldn't believe it. I don't have a dental phobia but do get quite nervous around it and had built it up in my head as being awful. When he said "that's all done" I assumed he was joking.

Hi I had mine out 2 weeks ago at the hospital under sedation.

Everyone was very nice and friendly. I was lying on a normal hospital bed instead of a usual dentists chair.

They put an IV into my arm and pushed some sedation meds through it. From here on I was awake but didn't really care about things. I just lay back with my eyes closed and my mouth open. It felt like only 5-10 min passed but it was almost an hour.

Once I was sedated they put local anaesthetic into my gums and pulled out the teeth. I felt nothing other than some fingers on my face where they were touching me - no pain at all.

Afterwards they explained how to look after things for the next couple of days to the person who attended with me (the sedation makes you forget what you've been told so you need someone with you).

I took painkillers in the car on the way home and again about 5 hours later. By the time they wore off I barely felt anything so I just went to bed. I didn't use any more painkillers from there.

For the first 5 days I could only really drink water and eat mashed potato and things like rice pudding or yogurt. After that I was eating normal but soft food (like a shepherds pie) for another 2-3 days. I was back to eating normally after a week. It's still not fully healed up but has stayed pain free and isn't stopping me being able to eat anything now so I don't mind just waiting it out from here.

I have to go back in a few months to get one more pulled and two fillings and they are going to sedate me again like this time. I'm nowhere near as stressed out about it now (though I definitely still couldn't do it without the sedation).

You will be fine - the staff at dental hospitals are used to dealing with people like us - I never felt judged about the state of my teeth and everyone just wanted to do whatever was needed to help me through this.

It's fine they use a strong anaesthetic so there's no pain it just feels like someone is pushing your mouth
Like a c section procedure but much much more minor