On Monday Night, I was eating some serial when all of a sudden, a jolt of pain hit my top wisdom tooth.

Alarmed, I investigated with my finger to find that I had broke parts of my wisdom tooth.

I went to the dentist yesterday to get it removed. While I was there, I saw an x-ray of it. It looked like someone scooped a peice of my tooth with a small ice cream scooper.

Thank God the wisdom tooth is gone. I just have to get two more wisdom teeth removed. one on top and another on bottom.

At least it's quick. Twenty minutes and you're out of the dentist's chair. I hate dentists.
I only ever got the bottom two wisdom teeth...never got the top ones. Mine were impacted for like, five years, partially broken thru the surface, but not much...so that when they finally DID come up...they were cavity-ridden like Swiss cheese, because of an inability to properly brush them. So of course they had to get pulled.

Got the gas, two quick crunches, and I was done. The gas was great...they coulda ripped my head off, for all I cared, when I was under the gas. But twenty minutes later I was all back to normal, and clamping my jaws down around some thicknesses of gauze. They told me not to smoke for 24 hours after, because of the risk of dry socket, so of course I lit up the second I walked out of the dentist's office.

I learned that the gauze was a great trick, and a great way to prevent getting dry socket even while producing suction in my mouth thru smoking...because it did not affect the sockets, if I clamped down on that gauze while I smoked. It tasted like crap, but it worked. No dry socket, and the very next day, back to normal, no pain, no nothing, and no more Swiss cheese stupid-assed wisdom teeth, either.

Heh, yeah. I was not given the gas treatment. They just used novocaine. The first time I had a wisdom tooth taken out, the dentist didn't have a freaking clue on what he was doing. He shot me up three times and I kept telling him that I still felt pain. When he was getting it out, I was gripping the chair.

The second time around, I felt no pain at all. The dentist knew what he was doing and I figured it had to do with how he placed the novocaine. I hear it's tricky getting the right nerves and doing so for wisdom teeth is tricky.

Anyway, he was a good dentist and will go back to only him.