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My wisdom teeth were hurting like a mutha a few weeks ago, I thought i was gonna have to get them pulled, I'm good now but for $500 a piece I think some pliers and cotton balls are looking good.

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home made dentistry

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after insurance i think it still cost about 700 bucks. After a perk and some huge asprin pill, im feeling pretty decent. 20 perks = 8 for pain and the rest for fun. i had one of mine sticking into my jaw 2, thats one the hurts me the most. the other 3 are just kind of aggrevating. talking with this gauze ---- in my mouth makes me wana throw myself down the stairs tho.

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just a word of advice to everybody, I had my wisdom teeth pulled in November (left side, upper and lower) and the dentist didn't know what the ---- he was doing, it took him over 3 hours of me sitting in the chair. I went to see an oral surgeon after that for a second opinion, and he said the whole procedure should have taken no longer than 45 minutes for both. Even an accomplished oral surgeon should charge you less than $100 for a simple tooth pull, or $200 for a impacted tooth (where they have to drill it out by making a hole in your jaw like mine). This is because they have the right tools and they can get it done fast (time=money).

After my procedure it turns out the dentist had damaged the nerve in the jawbone that runs under the tooth, called the inferior alveolar nerve. This made my gums on the lower left side of my mouth completely numb and a square area from my lower lip to my chin on the left side of my mouth totally numb also. I bit my lip constantly and couldn't talk right. I have recovered about 80% of the feeling in these areas but I will probably never fully recover. Some people have it much worse; instead of numbness they have constant pain that never goes away. Moral of the story is: for regular dental work, dentists are fine. For tooth extractions, ASK FOR A REFERRAL TO AN ORAL SURGEON WHO KNOWS WHAT HE/SHE IS DOING. It probably won't cost much more (sometimes, like my case, it would cost less) because oral surgeons do this all day, every day and they can do it quickly and with more skill.

Also, if you're getting a tooth pulled, make sure you really NEED to (mine was elective :'()

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oh yeah 200 posts, w00t

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nah, the prices are more then that, but it should be like 150 a tooth. 600 bucks for 40 minutes of work is some nice money..... but thats a fucked up story. mine took me like 40 minutes to get out all 4, and my guy was an oral surgeon. My buddy had his done, and they cut a nerve in his toungue. he went back into a surgery and they told him it was some scar tissue... but it wasnt cuz he still cant feel anything... id make a little lawsuit for some pain suffering ;)

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you think thats bad? i have to get all 8 impacted molars out, and get rods put into my jaw.

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wtf did u do to have that ----? :-X

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No joke about the prices, the oral surgeon I went to had a state of the art office and for a simple tooth pull, nothing complicated, it was $79 including anesthesia. For an impacted tooth, he said he sets aside 25 minutes but it usually takes him 15. Less than $200. These guys charge, but if you get one that knows what he is doing, he can do 4 in 1 hour =$800. Maybe I just found an honest doc. He only charges $40 for a panorex (panaromic xray) and he did mine for free because I brought the xrays from the other dentist, but they sucked ass, so he just did another.

These prices are before insurance by the way.

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about the lawsuit: thought about it, but since I am mostly recovered, there's a good chance I wouldn't get anything. The laws make it really tough to sue dentists. I read about some other cases though, where people had their lingual nerve severed or damaged by an anesthesia needle, and lost feeling in half or all of their tongue. People won judgements for millions of dollars ;D and some spouses even won "loss of consortium" lawsuits for several hundreds of thousands. LOL, loss of consortium... means hubby can't feel it when wifey slips him the tongue

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Hey Will, have a good time working for your turbo parts. lol. You really could have cashed in. :-\ I'm waiting for my opertunity when that bus plows into my car or something,,,, I can't wait. hahaha

About the teeth, I'm 24 and haven't had them pulled. Is it law that you have to? Or did I slip by and I'll be ok? I kinda wanna do it now with all this pill talk, though. ;) I don't think I've been to the dentist since I was about 8. I'm a simpleton. If George Washington didn't need it, I don't need it. ;)

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i had my wisdom teeth pulled out all four of them and it was a bitch. i didn't recover for like a month and i couldn't eat anything. i lost so much weight from that