Wisdom teeth removal (35+)

[polarbearfans]

I had mine out in my late 20s. I highly recommend taking the medication they prescribe as often as you can. The medication was an anti-inflammatory and pain medicine. You want to stay ahead of the pain. I took time off of work so that I could rest and let my body heal. I highly recommend taking the time you need.

Edited to add to not be afraid to ask for more painkillers! I forgot how many I got but I did get a refill called in.

[thejen626]

Yes. I got my upper right and lower right removed in 2016, I was 34.5. It sucked. I couldn’t get into the oral surgeon for 3 weeks, so was on a liquid diet, it was terrible. I did lose some weight and looked great 🤣 then after the surgery I had a horrific recovery. Nerve pain, 3 more weeks of pain meds, etc.

I still have both of my left side wisdom teeth. Hoping they stay put lol

[purplepenguin7]

Feb 3, 2023 20:07:22 GMT -5 cattledogkisses said:

Feb 3, 2023 20:04:03 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

I cannot believe this. My office required someone to drive me and stay there the entire time as well as driving me home. My H says I was high as a kite; I was singing along with the Go-Gos at the top of my lungs and do not remember a single thing. This was me the entire ride home.

I can believe it if you don't have any drugs.  H only had local anesthetic.  I drove him, but he would have been fine to drive himself.

Yes, he didn’t need any drugs so was fine to drive home. I went with him expecting to drive home but he so was completely fine he just drove.

[puppyluv]

I was 34 when I had mine out. I have A LOT of dental and pain anxiety and it wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined. Mine were impacted and they took a while to get out. I dont remember much from the surgery but came out of the drugs/anesthesia pretty quickly. I remember writing down questions for the doc and being lucid before I went home. I made sure to ice my face a lot and take the prescribed drugs and I bounced back to normal by about day 3. I wrapped towels around my face to hold ice packs on the side of my jaw as much as possible.

[texasharleygirl]

Feb 2, 2023 19:01:21 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Has anyone had a wisdom tooth removed at an older age?

Keeping mine seemed like a GREAT idea in my 20s … not so much now when one has decided it wants to erupt. It’s coming in straight (which bodes well for removal) but it’s painful.

I need to stop Googling because I’m freaking myself out. I’m not even sure I want answers to this post ha. I have such bad medical anxiety.

I had mine removed 7 yrs ago at the age of 48.  All mine were coming in straight, but I was constantly having issues like I was a "teething" baby.  Surgeon had no issue in removing them. 

[mala]

Tardy to the party, but H had his out when Little Kid was 6 weeks old*. They wanted to remove them the week of my due date and he laughed at them. He was 34. It went fine, other than having to call in help to get him there and back because sitting in a waiting room for hours with a baby did not seem like a good idea. It did seem like his recovery took longer than mine did when I got them out as a teen, but not overly long. He was back to normal within a week.

**Looked back at the calendar and she was 4 weeks old. Shows how well I remember that time.

[achi]

I'm really late to the thread too, but I had mine out in my very late 20s. When I was a teen I was told I only developed wisdom teeth on one side of my jaw and that I would *probably* have the jaw space to accommodate them. Over time one came in fully but cracked because it was so hard to get back there to floss properly (apparently not an uncommon occurrence the dentist told me)and the other started to come in but I didn't have the jaw space. My childhood dentist ended up being wrong and I did have one wisdom tooth on the other side so when I had them out they did a 360 head x-ray to be sure that the 4th wasn't hiding anywhere (it was not).

I had them out at dental anesthesia place my normal dentist referred to and it was a a breeze. I woke up feeling like I had the best nap ever and was actually slightly annoyed because the nurse and other person who were supervising my post-recovery care were having a discussion about Grey's Anatomy and I couldn't participate with all the gauze in my mouth. Recovery was pretty easy since the 2/3 of the teeth were accessible. I had some swelling where the slightly impacted tooth was but nothing like the chipmunk teeth horror stories you hear about. I was fine after a couple days, just had sore muscles if I laughed or smiled too much in a day.