Have a full mouth extraction tomorrow with only local anesthetic!

[PuffyLunk]

I have OHP, which is like a Medicare for Oregon and my insurance doesn't cover anything other than local anesthetic for this procedure. It's happening at 9:45 in the morning and I'm not really sure what to expect. Will it be painful? Will I remember everything? I'm really scared of the dentist, they just give me awful anxiety. I should have taken better care of my mouth, but that's not here or there, what does matter is tomorrow I'll be very much aware of them pulling every whole tooth (all like 8 of them) and then every broken tooth in my mouth will be cut into and scraped out while I'm fully conscious. Is this really how things are going to work? I might die just from the thought of seeing this. Can anyone help me before I go in tomorrow?

 

[Gordon]

1) Better not be. If it is complain loudly.
2) Yes.
3) No cutting involved, just a bit of pressure and a few weird noises. I'm pretty certain you'll have gone through much worse things in your life.

 

[PuffyLunk]

They only did the upper but there was cutting and sutures involved. They had to cut then break my teeth, then remove the roots and sew everything shut. The process itself wasn't painful, but the 18 shots to the upper was a real kick to the mouth, esp the series of shots to the roots of my teeth, yuuuuck

 

[Jill_pie]

The worst part is the numbing

 

[MagicDuck12]

Im very phobic, but my experience of extractions is, and i cant really talk in technical terms:

1) Getting the injections - I dont like this. Hopefully yours will go well. Its the worst part for me of any procedure. There will hopefully be as minimal a sting as possible. Ive had both 2nd molars extracted and the injections were pretty stingy sadly

2) The dentist felt like he was wobbling the tooth. Im not sure exactly what theyre doing, but with the numbness it is just a kind of "vaguely aware of the wobbling" type feeling, it doesnt hurt, just feels strange

3) The tooth comes out, its over to be honest very quickly, and then they put a cotton swab thing in my mouth and said just bite down whilst the swab stayed over the socket.

one thing i actually found surprisingly nice was the LACK of noise. I can find the noises of drilling and vibrations and all of that quite unsettling.

With the extraction there is noise, but not very much that I remember, or not noises that were making me (personally) feel uneasy or uncomfortable, that was quite reassuring.

After the extraction was done, i had no pains just a scab in my mouth. Think i had soft dinner that night, then more or less carried on like normal the day after.

 

[Jill_pie]

This is on point