Wisdom Teeth

Kold

Holy crap. My mouth is in searing pain. Hope this doesn't qualify as a medical question. Just wondering, will this die down or does it mean I need to go to the dentist to lop 'em out?

Also a way of dealing with the pain would be awesome.

Kimia

Best thing for wisdom teeth I find is Solpadine - the strongest one you can find.

Kold

Will I be able to open my mouth to eat?

EL_Loco

wow, sounds severe. get im looked at would be my 2c. got mine out a few years back, a bit rough but a couple of days later was grand.

rondog

As wisdom grow,they push against already present teeth,if there are any.
The pain will persist or get worse(it may also subside).My experience of wisdom teeth was they pushed up and out my existing teeth,caused pain and ifection.Best thing to do is get them out ASAP if thats the dentists suggestion,my face swole up like something from the elephant man after teh op

Lucy Lu

You would be best to go to the dentist in case you have an infection. None of us know exactly what is wrong with your tooth.


Good luck.

Moving thread to Dental Issues

Snowie

Ive allway found a hot water bottel help full as the heat i dunno just make life a littel bit easier
failing that you may be in work

One teea towls and a plastic bag...

stick the kettle on when its donw poor the boiling water over the towl and stick it in the plastic bag sudenly you've got a t towl pretty affective also cloves can be great to

I know how you feel

mashling

I feel your pain, mine have just crowned and it took about 2 years for them to get this far.

I found that a dab of anbesol on the gum helped.

And if you don't have any of that I would recommend a hot whiskey or two. (cloves are a natural anaesthetic)

norrie rugger

I feel for you, really.

I had pains and infections starting on my right hand side. No real biggy, till the xray. 5th bloody Wisdom tooth was pushing on my perfectly positioned upper tooth, which, in turn, pushed my lower back into my jaw.

Upper tooth came out with in 30 seconds, as it was pushed so far out

absolute half hour of horror, of the extraction on the impacted lower tooth followed by dry socket (never think as that as a proper saying for some reason).

All that was 8 years ago, now the 5th tooth is making a bid for gum freedom

Johnnyjump

If you have an infection, you'll have to get rid of that first before any dentist will attempt to remove the wisdom tooth.

Johnnyjump

I had wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic. Felt nothing .... Til later.

norrie rugger

Johnnyjump wrote: »

I had wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic. Felt nothing .... Til later.

All I got was a "I should have put you under for this", as all the local did nothing