#Tooth Extraction

[kouhai-deactivated]

I created a GFM for a dental emergency. 🦷🚨

I have a bit of a predicament, guys. Spanning the past two years — and I cannot take it anymore.

I never ask for help like this, but this is getting more serious than I can handle anymore on my own. If you have the time to check this out, **even if all you can do is share this post to get it around on Tumblr, I'd appreciate that. Please and thank you!

[marzipanandminutiae]

Wanna be horrified with me?

I had to watch a document about white colonizers in Canada for class and there was a throwaway line about a young woman travelling out to the "Northwest" (basically the prairie provinces of Canada) to get married and having ALL HER TEETH PULLED and replaced with dentures before the move.

Take me out behind the barn and shoot me first. That made me cringe so hard.

I just looked this up to see if it was a Thing. Big mistake.

No pictures, thank god, but anecdotal evidence that it has been a Thing on and off, in various cultures- especially in Acadia, which checks out here -into the 1970s in some cases. IE people saying "oh yeah, my great-grandma had that!" It seems to have mostly been isolated, not mainstream. Not that that's stopped myth-makers from claiming that ALL VICTORIAN BRIDES HAD THEIR TEETH REMOVED!!!! I hardly need to say that I've found no evidence of this- indeed, I've never read anything about an adult woman with healthy teeth having needless extractions in the 19th century until today (primarily reading publications and letters from urban or suburban areas of the US and UK, and sometimes France). And plenty of married or simply older women discussing tooth problems- one letter I read from 1820s Boston had a married fortysomething lady complaining about a toothache, for example

Actually, I'm finding more early-mid 20th century sources about it, now I really poke around. Interesting. I almost wonder if it didn't gain in popularity as infection became less of an issue, rather than being an older practice.

The idea, apparently, was that you couldn't have tooth problems if you didn't have teeth. Which is. Interesting and highly flawed logic, because now you have Got All My Teeth Extracted In A Pre-Antibiotics Era problems. Plus potential bone loss in your jaw, over time, which causes other issues.

Yeesh. I need to go brush and floss 15 times, brb

[duchessofostergotlands]

My wisdom teeth and I have permanently separated

[penvisions]

survived the first night, y’all

first 12 hours was intense and insane, read it will initially be the most painful during the first 7-10 days and will take an entire MONTH to heal completely. soft foods, no dairy, and because of the tooth i got pulled was the last one on the bottom, my jaw is bruised all to hell

there are v few instances in life where being single truly bothers me and this is one of them. to have someone to help wake me up for pain meds so they don’t lapse, ask me if i’m okay or need anything, just help emotionally and lay in bed with me while the chills set in and the shock wars off…

wasn’t able to afford to take work off with the holidays looming near and being just two bakers right now, so work is going to be interesting when i go in at midnight

[canonkiller]

they didn't even give me the teeth after

[sserrated]

So, after the last few months of absolute shit going on with my health, I’ve had yet another set back. Had a wisdom tooth extracted on Monday and ended up getting a dry socket which has made my face swell up so badly on one side and the pain is some of the worst I’ve ever experienced. Been laid up since Monday. Hoping the swelling goes down tonight 🥲 I’ve done nothing but take painkillers, antibiotics, sit with ice constantly on my face and consumed nothing but liquids for 3 days. Please let me have some good luck 🙏

[thewitchofcedarandbone]

I have two molars that are failing me despite copious amounts of dental treatment to try and save them.

I'm on a wait list for an emergency last ditch root canal for a tooth that is rotting from the inside out and quite literally falling apart. The other is scheduled for an extraction in the new year. I'm doubtful that either tooth will hold together as long as I need them to, but when the dental surgeon is booked up until February, there's not much more I can do but wait, take my meds, and do a little magic🦷

Carved beeswax molar: tangible poppet, antibacterial.

Himalayan salt: preservation, calm.

Juniper berries: protection, luck to get called in before the end of the year to get the issues dealt with/the teeth to hold out to the new year.

Echinacea petals: healing, immune booster to protect against infection.

Rosemary: protection, pain relief.

[fluffyposting]

Just had two teeth pulled and I gotta say. Gi-hun was insane for getting a tooth pulled (I’m assuming) without novacaine.

[whumpfish]

Extractions! (Tooth vs. Nail)

I've been wanting to do this one for a long time, for all you torture fans out there...

So I metabolize lidocaine like a motherfucker, and any time I get a local, I always have to get a second one halfway through whatever is being done. For the most part, doctors and dentists listen to me when I say this... for the most part.

Tooth

(The oral surgeon did not give me my second shot when I asked for it.)

1. Any fillings you have will collapse under the pressure of an extraction, even a medicated one. (I'm not sure if this is true for metal ones; all of mine are plaster.) It produces a half-crunch, half-thunk sound that reverberates in that half of your skull and sounds absolutely terrifying.

2. The pain of an unmedicated extraction is acute and radiating at the same time. The acute part feels more like having a stiletto stabbed upward into that space than a tooth taken out in a downward motion.

2a. In maxillary extractions, the stab goes straight up, and depending on the location of the tooth, that stab can feel pointed anywhere from your eyeball (frontmost) to right into your brain (rear).

2b. Mandibular extractions* stab downward from the chin (frontmost) to the hinge of your jaw and straight down your throat (rear).

3. The radiating part spreads like a flower blooming, from a concentrated central point outward in a rolling movement.

4. Your ears might pop like an airplane taking off as that blooming pain reaches the hinge of your jaw. Sometimes only in the one ear.

Nail

(I have been doing minor self-surgery** for years because I am genetically predisposed to ingrown nails, and if I don't catch it in time, they grow straight down and I have to extract them to be able to trim them. If I really don't catch it in time, they grow straight down and then curl backward, and I have to get an actual surgeon involved.)

1. Self-surgery, split off edge of nail, 0 to 1/2" down and backward: You have to wiggle these in a sawing/rocking motion back and forth in order to get that tiny bit of root to let go, and when you "saw" backward it feels more like a steak knife than a butter knife, this time moving with the direction of the nail. Then it reverses when you actually yank.

1a. The yank hurts more than the sawing, sharp like a stab from a steak knife instead of one being pushed in slowly.

1b. You will get the best whump out of a whumper splitting off the edges of the nail and doing this and then yanking the middle part

2. Medicated: Locals in the toe/finger area hurt like a bitch. They're sharp and needling like a stiletto to a paper cut, then if someone tried to pry that cut open. At the same time, they feel hot, almost burning. (Hotter than anesthetic being pushed through an IV, if you're familiar with that sensation.) And there are so many nerves involved that just the first round of locals takes 3-4 shots.

3. Unmedicated, grown down and backward, 1/2" to 3/4": The last time I went in, my surgeon said "given the amount of times I have to shoot you up, you'll probably hurt less if I just yank." (She was right.) This sumbitch goes in both directions, down/back from where the root is, then forward. The down/back is a stabbing pain. The forward is like somebody trying to pry open that papercut, a sensation probably caused by the fact that you are in fact messing with something stuck in a very small cut in the skin, in my case the cut was just caused by the nail that has now been removed.

4. If it is a toenail extraction, you are going to bleed significantly more than teeth or fingernails, because your body has to work harder pushing blood up through your leg veins than it does pushing it down into your shoe. Especially when you take a step. Ibuprofen makes this worse. If you take ibuprofen at all that day, expect your shoe to fill up when you take a step. (Mine did, scaring the tar out of everyone present, including me.)

Pain Intensity Verdict:

Teeth > Nails. By a LOT.

Happy yanking!!

*Because of nerve fuckery, dentists using the sonic cleaning tool despite my warnings results in a pain on the level of extractions, and the sensations described here are based on my experience with that.

**This never fails to horrify my friends. They'll see what I'm fixing to work on and say, "Oh ouch, that's bad, go to the doctor," and I'm just like "nah, just get me isopropyl alcohol and some office supplies, I got this."

[snailtowne]

thfy stole my fuking tooth. m still dazed. aensthiseia hasnt worn off yet wil update

[clownsketch]

I’m scared of the dentist

[husker-fictive]

Throwback to that time we had a tooth extracted and we cried because we couldn't have a milkshake because of the risk of drysocket

jdjdjdkdk also we have a tooth (assumedly a wisdom tooth?) growing into the spot where we had the tooth extracted and it's so uncomfortable

[fewwordsmanyriddles]

[duchessofostergotlands]

I have to get my wisdom teeth out on Wednesday and I know it's the right thing long term but I hate the dentist, I hate medical procedures, I hate soft food, and I don't want to do it.

[penvisions]

been slowly working on the next chapters for {gone to the dogs} and {return the favor}. even been working on a little one shot for {by the grit of sandpaper} and the first chapter of {black hole sun} while on my prolonged bedrest

i didn't anticipate taking time off work but two days doesn't seem like enough now...i will be going back to work tomorrow though and most likely working a straight week to make up hours. tooth pain is serious, this whole ordeal has seriously knocked me on my ass. if you have any, please see a dentist and get treatment started, don't let it get worse. granted my dental health was impacted greatly by my chemo

x.o dev

[sunnymeddows]

So I have to have an emergency procedure done to remove a shattered and absessed tooth. The pain is absolutely incredible and I need to get this done as soon as humanly possible.

Ko-Fi goal

I also made a BlueSky post. If you can, please repost it 😭

A photo of the tooth under the cut

I warned ya.

The hole goes up into the root.