Stupid wisdom teeth

[DocHorton]

Originally Posted by MILGAUSS88

Huh.... My dentist gave me a shot of Novocaine, cracked the tooth into a couple of pieces and yanked them out with a pair of pliers.

There are several different levels of extractions, and for fully bony impacted teeth some sort of sedation is normal. Sounds like yours was an easy one.

Originally Posted by pickettt

It's my understanding and experience that local anesthesia does not work if a tooth is already infected.

Somewhat true, it is more difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get a patient completely numb if infection is present.

[morglaw]

Originally Posted by blassy

So thought I was LONG past worrying about it at 52 years old.
Huge pain in left side of my jaw last week and couldn't even remember which ones came out 30 years ago.
Run to dentist and sure enough - wisdom tooth coming in and just peaking through the gums. There was a small infection causing the pain but some antibiotics seem to have cured that.
Have a referral to a surgeon as my dentist couldn't remove it because it's still 90% below the gumline.
Might just leave it and see what happens.
Seriously though....52 years old????

Wow I was reading this thread an everyone telling that they had problems with wisdom teeth! I really didn't know they can cause problems at 50/60