Wisdom Tooth Extraction?

Hey, Im 20 and i got all my wisdom teeth. My wisdom on my lower right side of jaw has a hole, even tho i have no pain yet, i was thinking of having it pulled out to save me from the stress i get before having a dentist appointment. My concern is that, i have a few phobias and one being sick or feeling sick and the other being a dental phobia. Most times after having a root cannel i feel sick. Would a wisdom tooth extraction make me feel sick too? and what happens when you have one taking out. Step by step and how long it will take.! thanks.. Oh yeah that tooth is fully through so would it be easyer to take out?

Wisdom Tooth Extraction?
Think I can make you feel a lil' better. I was your age when I got my wisdom teeth extracted. The worst of the whole "trauma," honestly, is making the appointment and waiting for that D-A-Y to roll around. Don't make yourself crazy. I was so worried, anxious, etc.....I wouldn't let them sedate me, or use the nitrous oxide....just strictly went with local anesthetic - OH! And take a Walkman or I-pod or something to listen to if you are going to be awake. As big of a coward as I (STILL) am about just getting my teeth cleaned, getting teeth pulled or extracted is like a walk in the park!!! Even the first time, with the wisdoms....but then I wised up and chose IV sedation. Now THAT is the way to go, Honey. You close your eyes, open them and...you are DONE! They are giving you your aftercare instructions and showing you out of the room!!!!! Seriously, I think you will be fine. Getting sick is probably the "come down" of all the pent-up anxiety. Some dentists will prescribe low-dose Valium or something like that to keep you from getting yourself all worked up.
Reply:99 percent of wisdom teeth are taken out under general anastetic in hospital so u wont feel nothing
Reply:I dont think any dentist would be willing to take out a tooth if there was nothing wrong with it. I have had a hole in my wisdom tooth and had it repaired, its fine now and I am TERRIFIED of the dentist
Reply:I've had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. The dentist won't pull any though unless there is a big problem with them. If they aren't really really bad. More than a hole...he may just fill it.
Reply:well I've had two wisdom teeth removed all set to have a third removed in a couple of months i never experienced any sickness if you have it by general anaesthetic the needle does hurt a bit as its gong in but it doesn't take long for it to make your gum numb the time taken varies depending on how deeply embedded the root is and if the tooth has fully emerged my last one took about ten min's but it can take longer you don't really feel anything except a tugging sensation sometimes it can hurt for a day or so after its been removed my first one did but the second i felt no discomfort at all it would be easier to remove if its fully out hope that helps
Reply:I had all of mine pulled out at once, then got up and ran my two mile qualifier for the navy. No big deal. It is amazing how much decay drains into your blood stream from a bad tooth. It will be allot cheaper in the long run to have it pulled.
Reply:Hi, I have had one top one and one bottom wisdoms out, the top ones are easier, but both times the dentist has said it's out and I have wondered what I made all the fuss about. You will have a few injections, I had five for my bottom one, you won't feel as thing, apart from the bottom ones are harder to extract but all you will feel is a tugging sensation. Honestly, you will be fine, and I am a scary cat at the dentist. If your really nervous, tell your dentist and try to Kalms to help your nerves. As for sickness and faintness, your dentist should be used to this and breathly deeply will help.
Reply:I had all 4 of mine removed while I was in boot camp. From the time I laid in the chair, they stuck me in 16 locating with Novocain. pulled all 4 teeth and I was out of the chair...total time was 8 minutes...yes 8 minutes. Was back on full duty the next day. Most people get sick because of the Anastasia.
Reply:in 2001, I got 3 pulled. They were fully out of the gum. A general dentist will do it then. They have to be fully out of the gum. What they do is numb you up and you feel nothing. You are awake. I will not lie to you..... you feel pressure and noise but absolutly NO pain. They actually ask you if you feel anything and if so, numb you more. It is alot cheaper then going to an Oral Surgeon. Now, an Oral Surgeon uses anasteshia (spelling??) and can put you to sleep. I actually had my last one taken out yesterday but an Oral Surgeon. They used laughing gas on my to kinda make me dopy. Then they gave me an IV to completely put me to sleep. I did not want to be awake for that one cause it was still under the gum line. It took 10 minutes to do and then I was awake. Honestly, I never knew I fell asleep! It was pretty cool. I was dopy afterwards and went home and laid on the couch. They give you pain medication and a antibiotic most of the time. Honestly, the main reason people feel sick afterwards is cause they swallow so much blood. I know that sounds gross but whether the dentist pulls them or an Oral surgeon pulls them, you swallow blood either way. =) Most dentists will pull them if you want to cause they are so far back there, they usually decay after time anyway..... It is actually easier to have them pulled at the first sign of decay rather then waiting cause the longer you wait, the more a possibility it is for the tooth to crack and chip while they take it out. That means more drama for you afterwards...... hope this helps
Reply:Hey i'm 25 and i had two wisdom teeth out today. I had it done at my dentist under local anasthetic and it was a whole lot easier than i imagined! It took about twenty minutes to take them out and that includes the injection of anasthetic (which was the most painful part!) I had it done at 1pm today and i've just taken some asprin (the pain is like a dull ache) my face is a bit swollen but not too much. The process feels like alot of pushing on your face and the worst bit is the crack the teeth make coming out! I had mine done privately and it cost £330 for the two (i'm having my other two out in a few weeks.) I hate the dentist (i took my boyfriend with me for support) but i'm not worried about my return trip.
Reply:don't pull it unless you have to, just get it filled or crowned. don't get root canals. go to a biologic dentist. go to one who uses IV conscious sedation if you are scared.





EXTRACTIONS





Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.








CAVITATIONS





A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.





There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.


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ROOT CANALS:





http://www.rooted.tv/Reviews.htm





http://www.mercola.com/article/dental/ro...





Hal Huggins answers the most commonly asked questions about root canals:





Why should I not have a ROOT CANAL done?





Root canals are recommended when a tooth has been fractured, or when decay has entered the nerve chamber and created much pain. Often the body calcifies the tooth membranes, and allows it to remain. Unusual as it sounds, the body does not like dead structures in it, and a healthy body will try to reject it. Pain requiring antibiotics and pain pills are frequently used until the immune system stops working in that area. Root canals produce toxins that can increase or create many autoimmune diseases.





Is laser treatment for cleaning of root canals and cavitations considered a safe treatment?





In both root canal sockets and cavitation linings, the big concern is the anaerobic bacteria. These are ones that live in the absence of oxygen. Botulism and gangrene are examples of anaerobic bacterial action. Bad bugs. If laser can kill all the bacteria, who is going to remove the dead bacteria, or the dead bone lining the sockets? There is no blood supply here. Laser only kills, does not clean debris. Other techniques are required to leave a clean area that can fill in with bone and new blood vessels.


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There is no way to disinfect a root canal. No matter how clean the area is or how free of bacteria, there are always bacteria in the tubules and they will grow. And, the more antibiotics taken or applied, the more antibiotic resistant, and stronger, they will become.





Root canals are the most toxic most damaging procedure dentists can do. You have two options: a root canal or an extraction. Dentists usually fill root canals with gutta percha. Some use the Sargenti method, a popular treatment used by 25% of dentists, but denounced by the American Dental Association because it contains formaldehyde compounds. There have been a lot of problems with those. They used to contain lead. The current formulas are said to have removed the lead, but millions of root canal treatments using the old formulas are still in people's mouths. Gutta percha is 15% barium so that it will show up in the X-ray. Gutta percha shrinks and leaves gaps and the tooth can never be sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile root canal. During a root canal, the main canal is filled and possibly some of the small side canals, but the other smaller canal-like structures in teeth called dentinal tubules are too tiny to be filled during treatment and these tubules become home to bacteria instead. Since there are millions of these tubules there is room for enough bacteria to challenge the immune system. The waste products from these nasty germs include some very toxic substances called thio-ethers, and your body has to deal with these toxins 24 hours a day. They contaminate the bone around the tooth and they are picked up by the immune system and carried to the liver for detoxification. Unfortunately, the liver can be seriously damaged by them. Weston Price conducted research on root canals and wrote two books about how toxic they can be. So you have to make up your mind what is more important to you. I believe no tooth is worth destroying my immune system. by Jerome, Frank, D.D.S. (812) 376-8525, Columbus Indiana, Author of "Tooth Truth"





ROOT CANALS POSE HEALTH THREAT AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE MEINIG, D.D.S.


Dr. Joseph Mercola


1443 W. Schaumburg Rd.


Schaumburg, IL 60194-4065


phone 847-985-1777





MJ You're assuming that ALL root-filled teeth harbor bacteria and/or other infective agents?





GM Yes. No matter what material or technique is used - and this is just as true today - the root filling shrinks minutely, perhaps microscopically. Further and this is key - the bulk of solid appearing teeth, called the dentin, actually consists of miles of tiny tubules. Microscopic organisms lurking in the maze of tubules simply migrate into the interior of the tooth and set up housekeeping. A filled root seems to be a favorite spot to start a new colony.





One of the things that makes this difficult to understand is that large, relatively harmless bacteria common to the mouth, change and adapt to new conditions. They shrink in size to fit the cramped quarters and even learn how to exist (and thrive!) on very little food. Those that need oxygen mutate and become able to get along without it. In the process of adaptation these formerly friendly "normal" organisms become pathogenic (capable of producing disease) and more virulent (stronger) and they produce much more potent toxins.





Today's bacteriologists are confirming the discoveries of the Price team of bacteriologists. Both isolated in root canals the same strains of streptococcus, staphylococcus and spirochetes.





MJ Is everyone who has ever had a root canal filled made ill by it?





GM No. We believe now that every root canal filling does leak and bacteria do invade the structure. But the variable factor is the strength of the person's immune system. Some healthy people are able to control the germs that escape from their teeth into other areas of the body. We think this happens because their immune system lymphocytes (white blood cells) and other disease fighters aren't constantly compromised by other ailments. In other words, they are able to prevent those new colonies from taking hold in other tissues throughout the body. But over time, most people with root filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of systemic symptoms they didn't have before.





MJ It's really difficult to grasp that bacteria are imbedded deep in the structure of seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.





GM I know. Physicians and dentists have that same problem, too. You really have to visualize the tooth structure - all of those microscopic tubules running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth, those tubules transport a fluid that carries nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched out on the ground they'd stretch for three miles!





A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid circulating through it, but the maze of tubules remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can migrate out into surrounding tissue where they can "hitch hike" to other locations in the body via the bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or gland or tissue, and the new colony will be the next focus of infection in a body plagued by recurrent or chronic infections.





All of the "building up" done to try to enhance the patient's ability to fight infections - to strengthen their immune system - is only a holding action. Many patients won't be well until the source of infection - the root canal tooth - is removed





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In 2001, Dr. Mark Breiner, of Connecticut, author of Whole Body Dentistry:Discover the Missing Piece to Better Health, was disciplined and fined $5,000 in December 2001 for advising patients that their mercury fillings and root canals could be contributing to their health problems. His disciplinary actions were categorized under fraud/deceit/incompetence/negligence in his consent order. Now tell me who is practicing fraud? A dentist who tells his patients that the fillings are not just silver, but mostly mercury, or the American Dental Association and the Connecticut Department of Public Health who doesn't want the public to know about the harmful effects of mercury fillings?





In his consent order the DPH also told him you "shall not remove teeth that have undergone root canal treatment that cannot be corrected by treatment of the root canal itself, retrograde filling or surgical apioectomy, or in which the root canal is fractured, without first providing the patient with the names and telephone numbers of two medical professionals approved by the Department with whom the patient may consult as to the traditional medical position on the planned treatment."





So if a root canal was causing health problems in a patient, Dr. Breiner was not to remove it, but to put in a retrograde filling. That means he was to put mercury down under the gumline and surgical apioectomy means he was to put mercury down in the root of the tooth, after cutting into the gums down at the root. Can you imagine mercury, not just on top of your teeth, but also down in the meat of your gums, down at the tip of your roots where it is in contact with your flesh?





Manufacturers of amalgam fillings warn against the placement of retrograde fillings. But that is what dentists do to "save" a root canal. We have testimonies at DAMS of severe poisoning by mercury used in a surgical apioectomy.





Dr. Breiner got in trouble again with the Connecticut Department of Public Health when he wrote an editorial to the Connecticut Post newspaper warning against mercury fillings when there was a mercury spill in a local high school. According to a press release from Consumers for Dental Choice.





Dr Hal Huggins, D.D.S. in a lecture to the Cancer Control Society 1993:





Then we get into the root canal business, and that is the most tragic of all.





Isn't there something you can put in the centre of the canal that is safe?





Yeah, there probably is, but that is not where the problem is. The problem with a root canal is that it is dead. Lets equate that. Lets say you have got a ruptured appendix, so you go to the phone book, and who do you look up? Lets see, we have a surgeon and a taxidermist, who do you call? You going to get it bronzed?





That is all we do to a dead tooth. We put a gold crown on it, looks like it has been bronzed. It doesn't really matter what you embalm the dead tooth with, it is still dead, and within that dead tooth we have bacteria, and these bacteria are in the absence of oxygen. In the absence of oxygen most things die except bacteria. They undergo something called a pleomorphic change...like a mutation. they learn to live in the absence of oxygen…now produce thioethers, some of the strongest poisons on the planet that are not radioactive.





These get out into the body and you may notice in the medical literature of 1900 they mentioned a few heart attacks, so it wasn’t a big deal in 1900, but by 1910 2% of the US population, which is a lot of folks had had heart attacks. By 1920---10% of the population had had heart attacks, and we are up to about 25% about 10 years ago, and everywhere you go you see joggers running around. Menus in the restaurant have this little heart over it because we are on low cholesterol diets …….so what has it done. It has dropped the 25% down to around 43% . We are going in the wrong direction and root canals are going up. In 1990 we did 17 million of them. This last year we did 23 million, and the ADA hopes by the year 2000 we reach 30 million a year.





Weston Price knew this back in 1920 - he would take a person who had had a heart attack, take out the tooth with the root canal, take a little segment of it, put it under the skin of a rabbit.





We have done this with guinea pigs, and in about 10 days that rabbit would die of a heart attack. And you could take it out and put it under the skin of another rabbit, and in 10 days he would die of a heart attack……he would do this to 30 rabbits and every one of them in 97% of the cases would die of heart disease. What if they didn’t have heart disease? If they had something else, the rabbit picks up the something else, but all of them that we have tested in this way have ended up with an auto immune disease in the kidney, and if you look at the work of Joseph Issels in Germany who for 40 years treated terminal cancer cases. He started on them when they had already had their chemo, surgery, radiation, then they came to him. That is having 3 strikes against you and a fast ball down the tube there before you get up to the plate. He turned around 24% of 16,000 patients over a period of 40 years. What is the first thing he did? Have a dentist take out the root canal teeth.





...I have this shirt tail relative down there [Texas] about 24 years old, and she has brain cancer, so what do they do? They take out half her brain. Then it comes back so they take out the other half of her brain. Then it comes back a third time, and there is not much left to take out. Now they probably didn’t take out half, I may have stretched the point there a bit, but she was still fully functional, but it was right smack full in the middle of the brain. Three tumors growing, three root canals, and she is pregnant, and it is hard to overcome the stress to the body that pregnancy does, much less trying to overcome cancer, much less trying to overcome the root canals.





So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumor anymore. It went away.





So there are a lot of things, and this is just a tip of this giant chunk of ice under the water that has been making us think we are normal when we have all of these things going on in our body that we caught at the dental office-..it is time you were informed.
Reply:If your tooth is fully erupted you are correct to say that it would be easier to remove than if it was partly erupted or not through at all. But the main problem with wisdom teeth, especially lower ones, is that the shape of the roots is very variable and this can make the tooth difficult to remove.





If I were you I would ask the dentist to take an xray of the tooth to see:


a. Will it be easy to remove.?


b. How much decay is in the tooth - can it be easily filled?





Really, the only person who can advise you on your individual problem is a good dentist and it is very unwise to pay any attention at all to the experiences of others whose dental circumstances may well be very different.





Sometimes in life you just have to surrender to the advice of the professional - but wouldn't you rather do that than take the advice of someone on a website like this.





Good luck.