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From: giaccone@rochester.UUCP (Tony Giaccone)
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Subject: Re: wisdom teeth extraction?  help!
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:40:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:40:45 1985
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  All this talk about wisdom teeth has made me remember my when I had mine
out.  I've never that crazy about Dentists so I try to avoid them as much 
as possible. ( I should mention that my teeth have been very helpful in 
avoiding Dentists. I went through my entire youth with only 3 cavities.) 
But at the end of August before my freshman year of college I had developed 
a toothache, where I knew my wisdom teeth were, that was bothering me 
  I went to see an oral surgeon because I expected that I might have 
a wisdom tooth out. I went in and told him that I had a toothache and
that I thought I would need to have my wisdom tooth removed. To which he 
replied "What about the others." I told him they didn't hurt. He wasn't 
impressed.  After that he x-rayed all my wisdom teeth and informed me that I 
should probably have them all removed. At the time he explained exactly the 
reasons and they all made sense.
  Then he asked me how I wanted to do the surgery. He again explained all
the reasons for having them out all at the same time. I do remember that 
the most important two (to me) were 1.It's surgery and it's better to only
open up the body to possible infection once. 2.(this was mine) I knew if
I let him work on me and I didn't like what happened it would be very 
unlikely I'd let him get a second chance.
  The surgery went well and I was pleased with the results. Very little
pain during the surgery and I went to registration two days later. The
pain pills they gave me were great, and I slept probably 18 hours straight.
I can't recomend it as the greatest thing that's ever happeded to me but
it certainly wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. I think that this is in
part because I went to an Oral Surgeon. I think wisdom teeth extraction is 
more than I'd be willing to let my dentist take care of.

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