At that day, an hour after lunch, my left upper wisdom tooth was aching like crazy. That was the first time I experienced a full blown scale 10 toothache. It was not fun, for sure. It took 3 hours of toothbrushing and salt gargling to get the pain away. In which it finally did.
I was shocked that I’ve finally revealed the side cavities on both the upper left and right wisdom teeth. Their view were appearently blocked by the molar tooth just in front of them, hence I never noticed them when toothbrushing. To see the cavity, I had to pull my mouth with my finger.
So, in emergency, I called in the dentist for treatment. The dentist deadened the nerve of the upper left wisdom tooth. At the same time, somehow she was also checking for the lower right wisdom tooth with the scaling tool, as there were still plaque buildups. Then it happened, the lower right wisdom tooth was aching immediately, and the dentist put the nerve-deadening patch there as well. The dentist offered the extraction of the upper left wisdom tooth within a week, however, she didn’t offer to extract the lower right ones. Instead, she offered root canal for that one. She prescribed some antibiotics and diclofenac to relieve the pain.
I did asked whether the body aches especially in the morning were caused by the hurting tooth, but she dismissed it. Out of confusion, I left the dentist’s office.
I took the diclofenac that night, and by morning all my body aches were gone, I felt very relaxed. I was still unsure of what causing the body aches, but appearently diclofenac took care of it.
Which Teeth Should Go Out First?
I have dental and needle phobia. The extraction plan was enough to render me thinking of how it’s going to feel, how long the recovery would be, and other things.
Then I suddenly remembered the suggestion from an experienced dentist 5 years ago, to extract all 4 of my wisdom teeth. The partially erupted lower right wisdom tooth was already decaying at that time, and it would cause sore throat at times due to food debris being trapped between the tooth and the protruding gum. The extraction was already planned, with panoramic x-ray of my teeth already taken. However, at that time, I bailed out.
So now here comes the problem again, coming back with vengeance. Thus I prepared myself for full extraction of the 4 wisdom teeth, and visited the dentist a week after. To make it easily distinguish them in this story, I’ll refer him as my 2nd-line dentist.
I didn’t remembered what trigerred it, but during my first visit to my 2nd-line dentist, he reopened the nerve deadening patch on the lower right wisdom tooth. Unfortunately it was hurting badly at that time, thus he reapplied another nerve deadening patch, promising that this time it will be a very effective one, unlike the one applied by the previous dentist, and scheduled another appointment for extraction by another 3 days. The dentist suggests extraction of 2 teeth at a time, with local anesthesia, either the left or right lower and upper.
The morning after, I’ve noticed red spots all over my shoulder and arms. I also got a bad diarrhea that day. The red spots also shows up in my legs later that day. A quick look over the internet shows symptoms of arsenic poisoning, thus I took lots of activated carbon immediately. The diarrhea subsided the next day, and the red spots were gone after 3 days. So now the focus has moved to the lower right wisdom tooth, as I thought it now contains arsenic that might be poisoning me. Thus the decision was to extract the lower and upper right first, leaving the original problematic upper left wisdom tooth, intact.
A week after, while visiting the 2nd-line dentist for extraction, I asked about the red spots problem. He said it was fine, you were just allergic to it. How could arsenic poisoning be allergic response? However, at that point I was badly in need of his skills, so I stay shut. Then both lower and upper right wisdom tooth was out. I left and took some afternoon rest as I was feeling so tired.
Post extraction sites were healing fine, and stitches were taken out 2 weeks later.
During that time, a client calls that they will need to attend an a week of overseas training in a couple of months, with myself guiding them. Not really sure on how long it would take for the post extraction to fully heal, I decided to plan the extraction of the rest 2 teeth after the training.
Turned out that it was the worst decision I took, in my entire life.
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