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Wisdom Tooth Extraction

February 4, 2010 2 comments

Yesterday, I had been to meet a Dentist @ Manipal Hospital for a recurring tooth pain. He said an X-Ray has to be taken as Gum is covering the Wisdom teeth and it is being infected. After the X-Ray he said infection is bad and two tooth on left side has to be removed.

He said they will injection and then start the extraction process. This was the first time tooth is being extracted for me. After injection (which itself was painful) inside the mouth, they setup all instruments around me as if abattle is going to happen (Eventually a battle did happen)

After around 15 minutes of the injection, Doctor started his small surgery. This is how it went:

1. I felt some drilling happening inside the mouth

2. They wanted me to open the mouth to the maximum even after I opened the maximum I could (I am not a Lion to open my mouth like that)

3. The pressure they gave to remove the tooth was unbearable. They had to inject me again to increase the numbness

4. After almost 15 minutes of battle, the doctor successfully removed the lower tooth (I know they did not get any co-operation from my side as I was jumping in the chair and moving my upper body when Pressure was too much. But they were very patient and got it done)

5. The upper was over in 1 minute after that.

6. After that had a juice and suddenly felt juice was tasting very different. Then I realized one side of tongue is numb and lost the sense of taste while other side was good :-) It was a good experience.

After the event, people said cheek would swell too much, pain would be unbearable even with pain killer etc. But after the surgery, I took some injection they gave and started on Anti biotic and pain killer. One day is over and till now no pain or swelling in the cheek.

Great work Doctor!!!

I heard the people there speaking to someone saying Next to Pregnancy, pain in Dental is the most severe.

I will never personally experience what is called Labour Pain in my life. But the very fact that I experienced the pain of tooth extraction which is less than Labour pain, makes me understand what Ladies must be going through to make their families complete. With new understanding and gratitude, I bow down to all the Ladies.

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