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The article claims "intensive" and "major" surgery. I had local anesthesia and 15 minutes in the dental surgeon's chair. Is it done differently in the U.S.?
by gilgoomesh 11y ago
The article claims "intensive" and "major" surgery. I had local anesthesia and 15 minutes in the dental surgeon's chair. Is it done differently in the U.S.?
- swang 11y agoI'm in the US. Mine were already growing above the gums so I could feel/touch them. The dentist I went to put me on novocaine and used a diamond drill to split my wisdom teeth into halves that he then extracted out. I think people who have surgery, are the ones whose wisdom teeth have not really grown out yet. So maybe that's what the article is referring to.
- bane 11y agoIt depends, mine was pretty major (general anesthesia, 3 hour surgery, etc.) and I had a very long recovery. The lower ones never breached my gums and had created an untreatable infection and the surgeon had to partially break my jaw to get them out. It was a real mess. Other people I know went through a fairly normal tooth extraction like yourself, it just depends.
- baobrien 11y agoI'm in the US. Had mine removed when I was 17 before they broke through the surface, I think. They offered general* and local anesthetic. I asked for general, but nobody told me you couldn't eat or drink anything in the 18 hours or so before the surgery, so they ended up using local. It was a pretty quick procedure. * It might have been sedation they offered, not general anesthesia.
- stordoff 11y agoI suspect it is variable from patient to patient (and possibly dentist to dentist). I had one removed a few years ago, and it was done in about ten minutes and left me with no discomfort post-surgery. OTOH, I have friends who've had ostensibly similar work done which took much longer, and they had some discomfort for a few days after the procedure.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoIt depends on the individual patient.