While
I worked at the dentist office with mom, the idea of getting my wisdom teeth
out floated around the office. They took
the panoramic x-ray of my teeth and jaw and I even got to develop my own
x-ray. Dr. Kay examined it and he and
mom decided that we should schedule the extraction appointment.
On July 8th, my wisdom teeth came
out and it wasn’t pretty. My mom went to
the pharmacy for some anti-inflammatory for before and Vicodin for after the
surgery. Normally one would go to an
oral surgeon and be put under while they did the surgery…not me. I was in a dental chair, with nitrous gas
mask strapped to my face and my entire mouth was numb. I worried about swallowing my tongue. As I sat in the chair, my body went into
shock. I got cold, so my mom got me a
blanket. They wrapped the bib around my
neck and got the tools out. My body
shook even more. I couldn’t control
it. As he cut open my gums and ripped
the teeth from my jaw, he slipped and the tool he was using scraped the roof of
my mouth, a part that wasn’t numb. The
uncontrollable shaking got even worse.
My mom came over and held my hand and told me it was okay. I choked on my own blood and coughed up some
of it all over me and Dr. Kay. He had to
go change his lab jacket. The sucking
tool wasn’t fast enough to suck up all the blood coming from the holes he had
left. All four wisdom teeth came out in
about two hours of laying there in that chair.
I was truly thankful when it was all over. They showed me my teeth they extracted, they
did not look like normal teeth, and to tell you the truth I was really
surprised.
To my astonishment, I really
wasn’t in that much pain nor did my cheeks swell up. I really did not eat anything for about three
days and the numbness in my mouth disappeared the next afternoon. The worst part was squirting a syringe into
the holes after I was done eating food to wash out the food particles. I had to do that for about a month.
