Yeah I’m super paranoid about the dry socket too. Trying to avoid screwing that up!

Thank you! 😭

Oh gosh, that sounds like a lot! When I got mine removed they knocked me right the fuck out. Good thing too, because I had a panic attack as they started to prep me lol

Anyway, they prescribed me a good pain killer for about 1 week and it kept me very comfortable. Hopefully they gave you something too! Recovery was otherwise quite quick. Pretty much a week. I think I ate a lot of soft foods like mashed potatos and apple sauce, too.

Oh yeah I definitely had a panic attack during! I felt bad too, their job is probably hard enough but yknow. Getting your bones ripped out of your skull is kinda terrifying lol

I didn’t get prescribed anything but I’m already on chronic pain meds which seem to be covering it… sooo far 👀. A little paranoid.
Thank you!

Salt water helps for cleaning the wound, be very careful, eat soup and yoghurt, etc.

It's gonna be rough following the extraction, its gonna hurt, get pain meds, youll need them. Itll heal over time, but its a journey

I didn't get out under for mine. Just local and that was it. Didn't feel anything for it except the teeth coming out/pressure. That was for my wisdom teeth which thankfully just popped out far easier than they expected.

I then had a molar extracted months later and it was MUCH harder. Since it was an older tooth and fully rooted in there they had to break it into sections to take it out. No pain but I was awake too and my experience was about yours. There was force but no pain.

Recovery for both was fine but the molar took longer and there's still a healed over divot where it was. The wisdom teeth healed up and filled up like they weren't even there. Just follow the instructions and you should be good. Dry socket is spooky but you really have to mess things up to have it happen (or be really unlucky). From my understanding anyway.

Ah, I got some difficult wisdom tooth removals because of infections and hooked roots! One lower jaw wisdom tooth had it's roots so close to big facial nerve in jaw that no matter how much they tried to ease the pain, nothing worked and in time they needed to cut my gums open and break those teeth in small pieces to get them out.
Of course I lost my consciusness at some point and got headed in the hospital ward, but got home later with bunch of antibiotics and pain killers. It was real hell and I don't ever have fear of dentists and I was SO READY to run out.

All four of mine got pulled back in high school. One was coming in sideways from the upper curve of the jawbone and would have destroyed the molar in front of it. Had to go to an oral surgeon instead of a regular dentist and they did put me under from the procedure. I think I was out of school & work for about 2 days and ingesting anything other than slightly warm liquids was sheer pain for the first day or so (got gradually better over a week).

I had a very, very similar experience with mine.

Lower left was coming in pretty much horizontally and was causing some of my other teeth to start crowding a bit. It was an issue I was aware of for a while but never seemed like anything urgent. One day I had a bit of soreness and actually thought it was the molar in front of my wisdom tooth that was the problem, not the wisdom tooth itself. I ignored it and over the next few days it got much worse and turned into a horrible ache that hurt so much I wasn't even able to tell it was coming from my tooth any more. It's like my tooth was in so much pain it couldn't even signal it properly and so my neck, ear and jaw all decided to pick up the slack by hurting as well. I think at one point I tried clacking my teeth together just to test and practically felt like I was going to throw up from the pain afterward. It was bad.

I scheduled an emergency exam, which I wasn't able to do with my usual dentist and after the x-ray I was told there wouldn't be time to wait a few months until anesthesia had an opening and their schedule was tight so they wanted me to do it right there with just a local. Honestly the whole thing made me feel incredibly uncomfortable just because of how hard they were pushing me to immediately make the decision to have surgery. It just felt too reminiscent of some pushy salesman or something. In hindsight they probably just didn't want to let a patient leave with a massively infected tooth and were trying to stress the importance of getting it fixed but something about it felt really slimy at the time.

I did agree to let them go ahead. The procedure itself wasn't really all that bad, though they had a lot of trouble numbing me in the beginning and the process was vaguely horrifying but also kind of interesting. I'm usually pretty okay with dental work and surgery compared to most people I know though. I was on Vicodin for the rest of the week so all I can really recall of the recovery is the disgusting taste associated with changing out bloody wads of gauze and sleeping a lot.

Anyway hope your recovery goes smoothly.

I wish you a swift recovery~ <3
Dentist visits always spike my flight or fight mode with all the noises so I can’t imagine the extra that comes with it. ;o;

keep it clean, don't worry too much, your body will heal :)

just don't be like me and get a piece of rice stuck in the socket lmao 😂 what an ordeal that was

Oh, I hear you. I had the exact same problem -- the lower wisdom teeth impacted my molars causing big cavities, so those had to go as well. And that caused me to eventually lose the ones above because the lower ones were no longer there to hold them in place while chewing. :/

I requested anesthesia for my surgery even if it cost me more. No way I was going to endure watching them working on my mouth and seeing them pulling one tooth after another. Made me wish we could be like crocodiles that just shed teeth and another pops into place (dinosaurs likely did the same).

Your dentist likely gave instructions to get the gums to heal (gently rinses with salty water seems to help). Just be patient and eat soft foods and slowly work your way into harder ones. It was about three weeks before I dared have something like a burger, and even that I ate carefully.

Even after losing those teeth I don't seem to have problems eating, so hopefully that will be the same for you.

As a person who's had all four out at four different appointments; yoghurt and similar things are your best friends. Decently easy to swallow and can vary in flavor enough to help you not go insane.

Be careful of temperatures (mainly when ingesting, as a cold compress, even just a DIY one, can work wonders to soothe the aches so you can sleep through the worst of it, if needed), and don't think "soft" equals edible at first. Minus the easiest extraction, which healed up enough that I could eat semi-normally just four days after (just in time to join family for Christmas that year, thank goodness), I think they all took me a minimum of a week to even just be able to bite down on soft, white bread (with crust off) without my jaw aching too much to swallow.

And don't use straws, even if drinking normally seems frustrating, especially if it hurts to open your mouth too far. The suction with straws can risk putting pressure on the healing areas and can make it open back up, if you're unlucky. Best not to risk it, far as I was told.

Oh, and don't be worried if you start feeling tiny sheets of skin flopping around or coming off as you heal. It can be terrifying and weird, but so long as it doesn't happen in excess and doesn't come with other worrying symptoms, it's just a natural part of the healing process. So long as the skin underneath is a healthy color, the whiteness of the dead skin shouldn't be a worry, I was told.

Other than that, as I'm sure several other comments have said by now; follow the recovery pamphlet. It's there for a reason, and it really helps you on the road to a speedy recovery.


Oh, and a small addition (not relevant, just remembered it and thought I'd include it); one of my wisdom teeth was beyond stubborn! Both roots had curved around making the bottom into an anchor shape. We were all amazed when it finally came out, haha.

I had to get all four out, parallel impaction on all of them. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. I relied a lot of apple sauce and soup for a bit; avoid stuff that might end up getting stuck. And then, take it easy on things activity-wise.

I just had mine out late November - take it EASY. I got a dry socket despite following instructions (sometimes the scab dissolves early, I guess), and I was a mean ol' bear in class. lol. It was honestly the worst pain I've experienced (and I've had other surgeries and other teeth removed), but still totally survivable (distracting myself was the most useful), so don't get too worried about it either. If you do get a dry socket, they can put some medication on the extraction site to make it feel better, too.

Hope you recover safe and fast <3

I never been gone through wisdom extraction. However, I went a couple surgeries already (and have two major ones in March). Do not be scared to be taking pain meds and take it as soon you feel pain. It works a lot better and you need less if caught early. If you are taking opioids like OxyContin, do take stool softeners and as often as possible. You got this!

A couple friends of mine had wisdom teeth extractions. What they usually did was to avoid hard foods for an entire 2 weeks to give their wounds time to heal. Depending on the circumstances, this might be a challenging time because you're going to be stuck eating nothing but porridge / congee and soup dishes.

No steaks, no fried chicken, nothing that could potentially lead you to accidentally using excessive force and accidentally biting down on your stitches. Once that challenging period is over, slowly ease your way back into harder foods again over the following 2 weeks.


Good luck and all the best in your recovery!

Ow owie OW! I hope your recovery is trouble-free and the bills aren't too bad (assuming you're American). Surprise surgery is the second worst kind of surgery there is (after Amateur Surprise Surgery).

Did they use the titanium crowbar? Mine had to climb up on my chest to get the leverage they needed, so yeah, sounds like you had a worse time than I did.

The worst for me, was watching them go in with a solid scalpel. Not the kind with removeable blades? It was one piece. And it grated against my jawbone.

Not much you can do for the pain except meds, but I will caution you on one thing?

The pain you feel in BOTH sides of your jaw, the upper part of the sides of your head, and the back of your head, is from holding your mouth open for several hours. It goes away in a day.

When you visit the chemist/pharmacist, ask them for an irrigation syringe, preferably one with a curved tip. That makes it so much easier to wash bits of food out of the holes.

Oh man wisdom teeth just love being a pain in the ass. I ended up with all four out in one hit, my bottom ones were impacted and I had a similar experience with one doing its own thing and having to be broken up to get it out. Ick. I was awake for mine, i dont think they put you under here in NZ unless they have too.

I also got mine done in a place 2hr drive away from home, so my body was great and decided to let the painkillers wear off at the start of the trip home. 10/10 would not recommend.


Salt water is good for rinsing, and stick to soft foods and soups you can suck up easily. Follow the advice your dentist has given you and you should be all ok! Sending you good wishes and hoping you have a speedy recovery. Take it easy ❤️

Have a speedy recovery and healing! I'm old enough they used nitrous oxide on me for mine. People are right about the salt water gargles, and painkillers. I don't know how Tylenol with Codeine affects you, but some people can't have it. Best wishes!

Aaawhh man sorry to hear that ;v;

Sounds like you're going to need some rest and recovery time, and maybe some hugs from Scarab if at all possible

Aw man, I'm so sorry to hear that.

I haven't had my wisdom teeth taken out yet since they're not bothering me at the moment. Eventually, I guess I'll have to get all 4 extracted bc my dentist says they're not growing in a good direction. Just thinking about it makes me somewhat anxious. I can't even imagine how I'll feel when I have to go get the surgery D:

Wishing you a speedy recovery!! ❤️

Got mine out a few years ago the exact same way. It was wild.

Honestly the best tip for me was don't swish when rinsing, you kinda have to loll the salt rinse around and let it fall out (don't spit)

Also try not to have your head flat when sleeping? I don't know why but if I was completely flat in bed it throbbed and felt way way worse than if I was propped up at an angle.

By comparison, I got lucky.

Two of mine have never erupted. The third would've been iffy, but when combined with the one on the other side of my jaw, the dentist decided it had to go. That fourth one had partly erupted but then just stopped with the back half still under my gums. It hurt to chew with it, and it would've become a blood-poisoning hazard from bacteria that could get below that unsealed and frequently crushed gum.