Bye Bye to the bothering Wisdom Teeth - And Hello to Relief
- Shriya Mishra
- Apr 24
- 2 min read
Wisdom teeth — yes those annoying third molars that show up uninvited in your late teens or early twenties. But for me they showed up quite late than usual, in my late twenties. It started with severe pain to swelling around the gums to infections. Phew! Doses of antibiotics and pain killers later, they would get better.
However, post extensive examination we got to know that all my 4 wisdom tooth were tilted, poking into my cheek causing the trouble. The only remedy to this pain was extraction.
After years of pushing this procedure I decided to step into the bandwagon and go for the extraction.
Within a period of 6 - 7 months, I got two of my upper wisdom tooth extracted. Finally!
While I was healing and prepping for the lower wisdom teeth extraction, we received our paperwork to migrate to Canada and we pushed it to the time we visit India again.
1 year 4 months later, voila came the day for extraction. After a lot of mental preparation and anxiety, I went to the dentist. By the way, my dentist is the sweetest, kindest doctor I have ever come across.
He started with the process of numbing my gums. There we go, he injected the regular 2 - 3 injections but my gums refused to numb. The 4th one too could not do it. This was surprising yet comical to us. However, another 2 injections later, finally they were numb. Yay! By the way, this entire process took good 45 minutes.
Next starts the procedure of extraction.
Well this was not a regular pull out extraction. The teeth was inside the gums, never came out so the flap had to be opened, the teeth had to trimmed and then to be taken out. All of this happened smoothly, thanks to numbing, and half an hour later, the stitches completed the process. The next couple of days need to be carefully dealt with for a smooth healing.
Recovery is a 5 - 7 day process followed by removal of the stitches and cleaning.
Hope this goes well too!
3 done, 1 more to go!
Love,
Shriya!
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