Ok so tomorrow I go in for an operation to have an Impacted upper right canine removed. I'll be going under general anesthetic so there is a inherent risk, so if I don't come on in two - three days to say how it went expect that it didn't go right. :unsure:

If I don't reappear head over to http://onyxwarlords.com/forums/ as they have my family contact number, and will be able to confirm whether or not it went ok.

If things do indeed not go well, I'd appericiate people passing the word on Warseer and the B+C.

Bah, bah. It´s not THAT bad. I had mine plucked out a year or a bit more ago. Trust me, it´s not that bad. Sure, it will hurt quite a bit, and you will probably bleed on the pillow (not too much, but you will leave a mark), but...

I´d say the worst part is AFTER the operation, actually. Generally, three or four things to make you hate your teeth.

On the other hand, you will get a huge tooth out of it. Mine was roughtly the length of a lasgun. It was AWESOME. I wonder where I put it, though...

Heh, I'm just covering my bases in the extremely unlikely case that something goes wrong anesthesiawise.

Plus it's not really just a plucking at the dentist, I'm actually going into the hospital to get a tooth that hasn't even emerged removed (which if it's had bone growth around it means drilling... being completely unconcious will be good but risky in itself...).

Ok so I'm alive (I think, never can be really sure...). The op went with out me feeling a thing (except when they stuck a large needle in my hand...). Post op was a bitch (5 hours lying in the hospital bed, with the needle from earlier still in my hand and a taste of blood in my mouth). The most painful bit I have to admit was after when they had to take the needle out of my hand (and the huge sticky patch that covered the majority of my hand hair...).

So apparently with the op itself they cut into the gum behind the teeth from the front middle all the way to the right baby tooth canine, so I have really annoying stitches between my teeth, and a huge pain line across where they cut (now I have to eat only with my teeth on the left...).

I'll probably take a picture of the tooth at some point and upload the picture for gore factor.

I'm glad the operation went well! :) I hope you feel better soon!

mm gore factor.. see heart surgery sucks.. you dont get a nifty.. well .. anything to remember, except a fain scare near your shoulder and down near.. well you get the picture lol, but congrats man, glad ta hear ya made it through

Hospital? Needles? On your hand?

Where do you live? I bet you have the highest life expectancy in the whole world, man! Here in Spain, it was a dentist. He stuck his pointy bits into my mouth four or five times, then applied choppa to my soft bits. THAT was it...

That said, I seemed to have the same problem as you did. Canine wouldn´t come out, so it had to be pulled out. It does inspire some resentment on my part that:

1- The dentist screwed up my braces once, and as a result my upper jaw is slightly tilted to a side. Only slightly... but that´s still noticeable.

2- According to my mother (I do not have good memory), he said the canine came out pretty easily. Well, THANK YOU. Now I need a fake canine in its place when apparently, he could have just pulled it out without taking it out of my mouth. And if my mother hadn´t gotten so shaken up after my father had an arrhytmia (spelling? ), the dentist would have carved into my upper jawbone to plant a screw into which, in a year or so, he would put the fake tooth.



To sum up:
Psychologists can be trusted more than dentists.

That bites, Drakkar. :( I had braces, too.

I've had relatively pain-free experiences with dentists and orthodontists (that might change soon, I may need my wisdom teeth removed) aside from braces since I was in since third grade (I just graduated high school), with a short break around fifth grade. I still have top and bottom retainers. I don't begrudge the braces taking so long, though. They did so many years so they wouldn't have to pull teeth. Apparently, pulling teeth changes how one's face looks.

UK, and I have Health Insurance (which I only found out about this year...), none of that NHS BS.

Annoying thing now though is that I have to wait for the stitches in my mouth to dissolve (approx 2 week)...

Had? Who says I don´t still have them? The dentist had to put me a new set when we found out how he screwed up my teeth´s alignment. Also, he had to put a spring to make space for the fake tooth.

I have spent nearly seven years of my life with braces on my teeth, I think...

ouch... that has Realy gotta suck