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[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

My wisdom teeth were growing sideways without me realizing for 29 years of my life so they had to be removed. They appointed me to this dentist that told me since they were so big and doing so much presure against the other teeth they had to be sliced up in pieces so she could extract them piece by piece.

This girl did put so much force and did so much pressurre against my jaw it dislocated and I felt like she was tearing it apart from my skull. I put my fist below it but felt like she was about to sink it in my chest. Did some mumbling due to the pain and discomfort (and because I was a bit scared too) and she had the audacity to, basically, call me a pussy.

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Huh. With my impacted wisdom tooth they just broke it in half with a hammer and then twisted the pieces out with some calipers. The anesthesia was good, so I didn't feel pain, but the crunching and scraping sounds were... off-putting.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

they had to "ratchet mines out. it was growing at a 45 degree angle from the corner of my gums near the end because it was partially embedded still.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i had a oral surgeon remove 2 of my bottom ones. i prefer those over a dentist. better safe then sorry.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago
[–] 0x0@infosec.pub -1 points 19 hours ago

Without knowing if youve had other teeth pulled its hard to decide if shes right or not