Scared - help please

John Mason

i have to get an impacted wisdom tooth out. it has started to decay and it effecting the tooth next to to it.

the dentist said he can do for 250e but it will take 2.5 hours in the chair, he will need to break the tooth, and then saw away at the gum to get down to the root.

I am horrified at the thought of this - i can bearly manage the pain when i am getting my teeth cleaned.

I have health Insurance with Aviva which covers some dental work but they wont tell me i can go to the dental hospital and get it done under a general.

how painful is it going to be

btkm8unsl0w5r4

You can go to a fully participating oral Surgeon who will take it out under sedation or GA and the only cost to you will be the consultation of around 100 euro. Sedation is a good option as you dont have a tube down your throat and the long recovery from a GA also.

You can go to the dental hospital however they have no GA service at the moment and the waiting list is always long.

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Charleigh Kind Paprika wrote: »

Sedation is a good option as you dont have a tube down your throat and the long recovery from a GA also.

why would there be a tube down your throat?

helimachoptor

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

why would there be a tube down your throat?

I would presume a GA requires ventilation? Though i'm normally asleep for it so i'm not 100% sure

btkm8unsl0w5r4

You cannot maintain a airway under GA and need a tube to breath through. Its not to be taken lightly, there is as much discomfort afterwards from the GA and medications given as from the wisdom tooth removal.

I am a big advocate of sedation. Your effectively as zonked as a GA, you have no memory of the procedure, no nausea, no sore throat, no hospital stay, no risk of dying, no anaesthetists fees, no hospital fees and its actually less likely you will get nerve damage having wisdom teeth out under sedation. And you recover much faster.

There are benefits of GA, but there not for the patient. Well for children, special needs patients and the people requiring huge procedures like block bone grafts etc but for wisdom teeth and most surgical dental treatments sedation would be my preference.

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Charleigh Kind Paprika wrote: »

There are benefits of GA, but there not for the patient. Well for children, special needs patients and the people requiring huge procedures like block bone grafts etc but for wisdom teeth and most surgical dental treatments sedation would be my preference.

Do many people die from GA each year? I'd prefer to be knocked out for the procedure, I'm willing to put up with pain and discomfort afterwards, but if there are serious risks with GA then I might be persuaded otherwise. But if the risk was 1 in a million then I would be willing to take that risk.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Why would you prefer to be knocked out, if the alternative is to have no memory of the procedure and the procedure to be totally comfortable, most people fall asleep during the sedation? Yes a certain number of people die under GA each year, and really for tooth removal its total overkill. The post operative discomfort may seem like a future problem you can deal with, but when your throwing up from the anaesthetic, have a horse sore throat as well as a sore mouth you wont be saying that.

Its common practice to do complete hip replacements in orthopaedics & some neurosurgery under sedation and epidural, this is a far more invasive procedure.

Time

Fitzgeme have you any links that tell a bit more about sedation, I need some dental work done and due to an experience in the dental hospital a few years that could only be called prolonged torture GA would be the only option for me at the moment but i'd be interested in sedation if the effects were virtually the same.

Thanks
J

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