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elloise9826
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Just wanted to add my success story here as I was quite anxious before having my wisdom tooth out and felt a bit better after reading some of the posts on here. I had my left lower wisdom tooth out this morning (fully conscious with just the numbing injections, no sedation) and the experience was honestly absolutely fine. For info it's a fully erupted healthy tooth but not enough room for it in my tiny mouth and the gum around it was always getting sore/inflamed so the dentist wanted to get rid. I could barely feel the injections and I just closed my eyes as I don't really like needles and it was fine. The numb sensation is odd, I've not had it before and I did find it weird at first but not really bad or anything. Then for the extraction itself. A few weird sensations like 'this should be painful but it's not' and some rocking back and forth and pressure on the tooth/jaw then it was out! Whole extraction only took five minutes and it was a biggun and quite difficult he said. I'm probably having the other lower wisdom tooth out later in the year and I won't be nervous next time. I was quite glad when it was out and over but by no means an unbearable or painful experience! I think I was just waiting anxiously for it to get bad and it never did. Then it was out! I've seen a few people mention horrible sounds - there were a couple of crunches and they didn't bother me in the slightest. Anyway I'm just waiting for the Novocain to wear off and my jaw is already a bit achy so maybe the worst is yet to come but fingers crossed the pain won't be too bad!