It's been 2.5 months and I still have a hole in the back of my mouth. When they offer you the irrigator syringe, take it. And the vile tasting goo? If they pack it again ask if they can mix it with a cherry-flavoured anesthetic. It makes you feel much less pain and the cherry covers the taste of the medicine.
The goo is pretty vile, but only for four hours - after that I was sort of blind to the taste, if you see what I mean.
Contrary to Wednesday's statement below, I'm quite happy. The teeth are out, the pain's not been beyond the limits of painkillers, and the entire operation cost me the princely sum of 20 pounds.
An irrigator syringe is a little blunt-tipped syringe (i.e. without a needle) with a long nozzle on the end that you can stick waaaay back in there and hose down the sockets with...
I had seven(!) wisdom teeth out twelve years or so ago, which left great big holes in my jaw. I was warned not to chew on ice or eat corn nuts for at least three months, or I ran the risk of SNAPPING MY JAW.
Plus I had huge holes in there, and had to clean them out daily. It was not-fun. Especially when I got a chunk of popcorn caught in one of them. Ouchie.
The irrigator syringe is, well, it's a plastic syringe that holds water and has a curved plastic "needle" (really just a pointed plastic end that the water comes out of). It's *really * helpful for getting stuff out of the extraction site, and lets you eat more than just liquids and mushy foods. It also helps you to not develop dry sockets again after the yucky tasting dressings are gone. You basically fill it with salt water, point toward the center of the hole in the back of your mouth, and plunge. It gets everything out a lot more easily than just rinsing.
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It's been 2.5 months and I still have a hole in the back of my mouth. When they offer you the irrigator syringe, take it. And the vile tasting goo? If they pack it again ask if they can mix it with a cherry-flavoured anesthetic. It makes you feel much less pain and the cherry covers the taste of the medicine.
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The goo is pretty vile, but only for four hours - after that I was sort of blind to the taste, if you see what I mean.
Contrary to Wednesday's statement below, I'm quite happy. The teeth are out, the pain's not been beyond the limits of painkillers, and the entire operation cost me the princely sum of 20 pounds.
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An irrigator syringe is a little blunt-tipped syringe (i.e. without a needle) with a long nozzle on the end that you can stick waaaay back in there and hose down the sockets with...
I had seven(!) wisdom teeth out twelve years or so ago, which left great big holes in my jaw. I was warned not to chew on ice or eat corn nuts for at least three months, or I ran the risk of SNAPPING MY JAW.
Plus I had huge holes in there, and had to clean them out daily. It was not-fun. Especially when I got a chunk of popcorn caught in one of them. Ouchie.
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They had me giving myself hot salt mouthwashes until they packed the sockets.
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Except for the parts where you were complaining a lot. And the parts where you were in hideous agony.
And you could have been way happier on percodan. :)