Posted by War Stories on December 10, 2002 at 17:05:15:
In Reply to: HELP!!NEED INFO ON WISDOM TEETH posted by Bill Pritchard on December 09, 2002 at 12:09:04:
This has nothing to do with your inquiry, but I had all four out one at a time, by a dentist; one was impacted, it took an entire hour to get it out with him drilling on my jaw bone, novocaine only, did not completely kill the pain...and I can still play fine. It just was not much fun. He was a good dentist, not some new grad at the bottom of his class.
Then a decade later I had to have bone implants in all four sockets, done by a specialist but also with just novocaine, I guess I'm just a masochist. I can still play.
Some people resemble a chipmonk for a week or so afterwards, due to the swelling. I guess it depends on how deep they have to dig.
Cheers!