i also had my wisdom teeth pulled without being put under
i also had my wisdom teeth pulled without being put under
I have no idea why a regular dentist would have done that.
I have, too. But pulling a tooth vs. digging it out is completely different. My wisdom teeth were completely exposed. My brother's were impacted, and he had to be put under to have that done.
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I can attest about only local for wisdom teeth removal. Had all 4 removed when I was 18, they all were at least partially erupted. Took 45 minutes to an hour, awake for it all. No pain, but certainly could feel the pulling/yanking.
Depending on the hand surgery, I've taken care of patients that only had local/blocks on their hands. Knees and ribs though, never heard of non-general for that.
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Then I have no idea how they did that with local anesthetic, and I question whether you are remembering the circumstances correctly. When they have to dislocate your jaw to get the tools in (which they often have to do with impacted wisdom teeth), they don't leave you awake. I mean, unless you get it done in some third world hell hole.
It happens, I've been there as well (yes, it was wisdom tooth). In the European-speaking world I think it's the normal procedure to do it without general anesthesia, unless there's something specifically requiring it. I felt no pain during the operation, the local anesthetic (or whatever you call the stuff they inject to your jaws to take all the feel away) did its job as much as it has to. It was quite odd feeling though, because it requires a rather generous amount of force and work to just pop the tooth out of there. After it was done, I was prescribed some pain killers (ibuprofen and co-codamol based) to take if required. After the day of operation I used none.
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I got all of my 4 wisdoms out at the beginning of this year under local, was a precautionary removal as my tops were due to impact soon (was 24yo at the time). Walked in/out of the dentist's building in 20 minutes and ate pizza for dinner that night. 2ez.
OT: The situation described sounds weird as fuck, I think there's a chance that your sister got confused when she was going under.
Mine was vertical impaction, and it was local. I also had a supernumerary tooth (basically a lump of tooth enamel forming inside my gums and pushing my teeth out of place) removed, local anesthesia as well.
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When I had both dental surgeries done, I had to change these wads of gauze every couple of hours, and they got loaded with blood.
Then you just confirmed you're making this up. Vertical impacted wisdom teeth sit right on the nerve, so when they yank it out, they're literally causing trauma directly to a major nerve running through your jaw.
They wouldn't let you do this without putting you under for liability purposes, many people would probably go into shock.
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Man, I hate wisdom teeth removal.
I got screwed when the surgeon damaged a nerve and I lost feeling and the ability to taste in half of my tongue...
This couldve been permanent but I kinda lucked out that I got at least part of the feeling back.
You don't feel any pain when it's being done. You have basically 3 injections each on the inside and outside of each tooth, and then one deep one. It feels weird, but it doesn't hurt at all. I guess you're just learning something new. Local anesthesia can be done on almost everything. I've had a knee debridement done on local. I've had screws set in my hand on local (that was the weirdest one, because they use literally just a regular power drill to tighten everything).
I've never known dentists to put someone down under full anasthetics for a procedure, it's just a little injection around the problem tooth, even for the wisdom teeth. Probably the denists have become better at calming and soothing the patients now, as opposed to the school dentists of old with their "let's drill teeth without any pain relief because I'm a sadist" (or that's what old people claim anyway).
But to be honest, I prefer the American/Canadian way of doing it.
I don't know if it was abuse.
Originally Posted by Vaerys
i had that. doctor just cut the tooth in half and left the root that was close to the nerve where it was. local anesthesia. don't think i was with the doctor more then 15-20 minutes.
but you are right, they probably put people under a lot more in the US for liability reasons, not medical reasons.