The best news I got all year.

I arrived for my appointment at 12:55pm and as we went back to the operating room the doctor struck me as a little like Doogie Howser in that he was about 4'10" tall and I loomed over him in an unsettling way.

I had my iPod ready to go, they had the nitrous oxide ready to go and the nurse put a couple of blankets over me and I waited.

He looked at my xrays and then in my mouth. He noted I had a "very big mouth" so that would "make things easier". He asked me if my teeth have been giving me trouble. I said, no but the dentist had been nagging me to get them removed for the last 5 years. He seemed surprised and that's when the discussion started.

The teeth are under my bones and a nerve is wrapped around one of them. So that it was about 50% certain I would end up with nerve damage on my jaw, tongue and cheek which could last for as little as six months or as long as the rest of my life. He said there would certainly be bruising and swelling. He said the difficulty of my procedure would be a 9 on a scale of 10 (10 being the most difficult).

When he finished this whole explanation he assured me we could still take them out, I mean, he'd be thrilled to sever my bones and leave me battered and bruised. But considering I am 33 and the teeth aren't giving me any problems at this point it's a reasonable expectation that the teeth will stay beneath the bone and not cause any trouble.

If they do he'll be happy to saw through my bones and sever my facial nerves at that point.

Oh boy!

I was going to walk out of the office with gauze in my mouth and tell Logan I'd actually had my teeth pulled just to get a few days of sitting on my ass eating slurpees. But the joy in my face gave me away.

The only drag is that I was hoping the pain would put me on another unintentional diet to make up for that indulging I've been doing in the last few weeks. Maybe I'll have to use "self control" or something....enh.

Comments

[Allyson]

That's fantastic news! I'm surprised that your dentist was so insistent that you have them pulled - time for a new dentist I think!

I'll just come and hunker down with you on the no-self control couch. Maybe we can distract each other from eating. ;)

[merseydotes]

Self control is very overrated. Just see if you can catch a rad stomach flu or salmonella poisoning or something.

[Ty]

That's good news!

I just found out that at 27, one of my wisdom teeth is coming in. Like, I am 27 years old and TEETHING!!

But luckily it seems to be coming in straight and I should avoid surgery, too. Crossing my fingers.

[TeriLynn]

Oh... So no pain killers?
Merry Fucking Christmas, Teri!

At least you have no excuse to not come out on Saturday! HahA!

-miao.

[Karianna]

Oh! I commented on your other post before reading this one. Duhhhhh...

May those teeth never bug you.

Now you can really enjoy New Year's. :)

[chris]

I cringed when I read you were having them out, though I didn't say anything because I hate when people start with all the horror stories that serve no purpose but to frighten the bejesus out of you. But now I can safely say that I had all of mine take out and it sucked.

So I am happy you were able to avoid the surgery. Now go enjoy a momtini ;-)

[chrissyg]

Oh the oral surgery diet is one of my faves! I lost 10lbs after my wisdom teeth came out, and almost 15lbs after I had my tonsils out. Sure, the pain, bruising, and discomfort at having such surgeries as an adult was horrific, but my ass looked FINE!