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"wisdom teeth"
Dumbest fucking teeth!
stundents 😭
Had six done at once with local anesthesia. Yup, whole two supernumerary teeth.
It sure was an experience that I wouldn't want to experience again.
Someone always profiting from your misery, is why we can't have nice things.
I'm german. I didn't pay jackshit to get my wisdom teeth removed. As soon as a dentist deems it medically necessary, it's fully covered by even the most basic health insurance. Even if it's prophylactic.
Call it communism all you want, but it's great.
As soon as a dentist deems it medically necessary, it’s fully covered by even the most basic health insurance.
Yeah, that's the joke. Americans pull wisdom teeth left and right regardless of whether or not it poses a medical risk, it's a part of their culture. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/no-you-probably-don-t-need-to-get-your-wisdom-teeth-removed-ever
For me, they said my wisdom tooth was too impacted, so unless it was causing pain O should just leave it because removing it could damage a nerve and leave part of my face numb.
And I'm in the US, and dentists are constantly trying to upcharge you for whitening and other stuff, so I took that warning seriously.
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Anyone smart enough to be here knows socialized healthcare is better for people than the alternative.
Er, your dentist still gets paid.
Obviously. But people are sharing how much they paid in the comments, so I figured to do the same.
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Italian tooth
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Why is the tooth Italian and what’s wrong with an Italian tooth??
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I spent way too long looking for Saddam Hussein.
Where was he?
In every corner of my expensively empty mouth apparently
Had 4 done at once. Because asthmatic, had to be done at the hospital because of general anesthetic. 2/10
Was told to eat protein rich diet to support healing, but couldn't chew meats like steak for months due to the risk of breaking my jaw. (Big holes left in bones when teeth removed.)
Invented meat smoothie.
1 steak, medium rare Montreal steak spice. 4 slices bacon 1 spicy italian pork sausage 1 chicken thigh deboned. Salt Water Yogurt
10/10 surprisingly good.
Meat smoothie sounds terrible. Really terrible.
How about the mango mahi mahi smoothie I enjoyed instead.
What a horrible day to be literate
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Loved when my impacted wisdom tooth that looked closely to that exploded in my jaw in 2019. Great times. Real glad my surgery was in February of 2020.
Do they still give you an almost 2 week script of hydrocodone after? I remember watching a lot of magic school bus high as fuck when I was younger for a few days after.
You mean the dentist who, when seeing me, told me immediately they don't prescribe narcotics at that office and then immediately looked guilty when I said that's fine, I just wanted a scrip for the big ibuprofen because taking 4 of the small ones at a time made my stomach sick?
No. No they did not.
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I had them out at 18 in the Navy. At first I didn't want to have it done, but then looking at the X-ray, I was all about it.
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My dad's are like that and he went to a dentist a few years ago that told him "we need to get those out of there". My dad was just like "why? They haven't a problem til now and I'm almost 70." He did not go back to that guy.
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can someone explain this? I don't get it
I had that. The 8th (wisdom) tooth grows in that position. At first there's no problem but it starts to create pressure on all other teeth and eventually starts to hurt as it's pushing against the 7th tooth. The solution is to take out wisdom teeth, which is a quite common procedure any way. Don't know what the "infinite money" is about. Maybe this is some USA thing.
Probably because more people keep getting born with wisdom teeth to take out
It took a while for me but after some thinking I believe it is a joke for Americans, for whom dental care is infamously expensive. Probably this type of wisdom tooth causes problems so frequently that a dentist could pretty much live off a single patient with this condition, that'd be the joke. Full disclaimer I'm not American, not a dentist and my wisdom teeth also not like that
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I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.
Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.
Dude. How wealthy are You, that You can afford gold? I have a ceramic tooth and could barely afford that.
I'm poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I'd need it all my life. I guess in his defense I'm mid 30's now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?
My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can't even afford to get finished. It's been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I'm still waiting... Not to mention I've been laid off...
So yeah, I'm just as broke as most of my generation, lol.
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Had this surgery done this march for two teeth... 2 weeks on painkillers. Here in Denmark all I got was store bought painkillers... ibuprofen and paracetamol.. and a bill for 8600DKK ~1000$
0/10 - will not recommend
i thought that was a hand with too many fingers. teeth make more sense.
That back tooth be like 🤌
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