Wisdom Teeth Nerve Parastesia

I'm 29, and I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled last year. Before the procedure, I suffered from bleeding and occasional pain. In fact one of the wisdom tooth was already severely decaying, which was why I was experiencing pain. So I decided to get that taken care of... like a man.

Anyway they too warned me that it was possible my nerves would be affected during the procedure resulting in permanent loss of sensation, especially if the roots of said wisdom teeth reached that far. But the risk was really low, something in the order of 1-2% chance of that happening. Of those 1-2%, 95%+ of them will eventually recover over time, and the rest will have to live with permanent numbness. Those were pretty good odds, so I agreed to the procedure. They had me sign papers anyway lol.

The whole thing broke down to two sessions. The first session I removed my upper and lower left pair. The second session, which was a week later, removed my upper and lower right pair. I argued to my dental surgeon that both my upper teeth were fine, and they didn't need to remove them. But they said if I kept them there, there'll be nothing to bite against, and they'll just drop down after a while (which would be nasty). So I agreed.

It was really scary the first time, the multiple injections weren't pleasant, but thankfully I didn't feel a thing when they were drilling down. I was kindof expecting them to slip somewhere & have the drill hit my cheeks or gums. Never happened, they were really patient. It took something like 2-3 hours before everything was done. They asked if I wanted to keep my broken leftovers, and I said hell yes. It's been a while since the tooth-honey visited me, and I'm a big man now, so I want to show her my appreciation in a manly way.

So then they had me lightly bite on cotton pads and told me to change it once I got home. I got a weeks worth of painkillers and cotton pads, and away I went. It wasn't swollen at first, and I thought I was one of the lucky ones lol. It ballooned up the next day hah. I was told not to chew on anything for a few days, and to very gently gargle and rinse with salted lukewarm water every once in a while. The upper side (which wasn't impacted), healed rather quick. Within 3 days it felt fine. My lower one however got a bit infected & I became a little sick. I took some antibiotics and was cured in a few hours.

The whole thing wasn't as bad as I thought. The painkillers really helped. And so the following week, I walked in with a big smirk in my face. Injections & drills, none of that fazed me. The rest of the week went without incident, and I could chew food again without bleeding! Saying it was unbelievably worth it is an extreme understatement. It is best described in one word RAARRRRR!!!


Now following the procedure they had xrays taken of whats left, to check on the progress. All four pits were nicely healing, with a small bone pit (formed from the blood clot) where the cavities once were. Unfortunately they also saw that one of the adjacent teeth had a big cavity, caused by the wisdom tooth pushing into it. I'm still taking care of that today. I already had the nerves and stuff partially removed from that teeth because it had started to decay. In fact I had to wait 3 days before I could get treatment because they were closed on the weekend. It was the worst thing I've ever felt. Something close to having needle continuously pricking on the same wound over and over again for the whole day. Thankfully thats gone now, so I'm waiting for them to call back to see whats next.

My only regret was that I didn't do it sooner, because had I done so, I would've been able to save my adjacent molar from any damage.


Well thats that, hope you make the right decision and have them suckers taken out.