The Navy dentist who removed wisdom teeth used the corner of my mouth as a fulcrum while applying pressure to the extractor. I walked around with crushed tissue at the corner of my mouth for a week.
I'm wondering what people did for impacted wisdom teeth before modern dentistry.
They died. For that reason, they didn't have impacted wisdom teeth.
It's true. There has been a massive evolutionary change in the shape of the human jaw in just the last few hundred years. Jaws used to be longer, palates used to be wider. Now most people have an overbite and many have sleep apnea and other problems associated with the narrow palate. Nobody knows exactly how it happened.
I've been on drugs from time to time, but the general anesthetic when I got my wisdom teeth out was about the wildest high I ever had.
I woke up in the middle of the operation with my jaw clamped open. I knew what they were doing. I could see the tools going in my mouth, I could feel the chiseling and prying.
It didn't hurt. I didn't care. That's DRUGS, mmkay?
Musical, the change was we started eating more processed foods. I’m not talking about chicken nuggets and hotdogs. Our ancestors ate raw plants and coarse grains. Starting after the Middle Ages we cook or grind everything. Our jaws don’t get the workout they need to develop so they are essentially atrophied from what our ancestors had.
Hey, where did you get my x-rays? I had impacted wisdom teeth on the lower, and splayed out ones on top, too. They had to bust up the bottom ones in pieces to fish them out. I don't miss them in the least. It was the pain AFTER they were removed that hurt the worst. All those teeth pushed forward, starting to migrate back where they belonged. Oh man.
#9 reminds me of the old Henny Youngman joke.... "I came home and the car was in the kitchen! I asked my wife 'how did the car get in the kitchen', and she said 'i made a right from the living room' "
An Army dentist extracted all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth as well as 2 bicuspids one afternoon after duty. I was awakened at 0530 the next morning by hospital staff so I could make it back to my unit for PT formation. I was 19, so I just rolled with it....until the pain from the dry socket kicked in 2 days later.
#10: Impacted wisdom tooth. Been there
ReplyDeleteYep they dislocated my jaw trying to break them out.
DeleteThe doc used a stainless steel hammer and chisel on mine.
DeleteThe Navy dentist who removed wisdom teeth used the corner of my mouth as a fulcrum while applying pressure to the extractor. I walked around with crushed tissue at the corner of my mouth for a week.
DeleteI'm wondering what people did for impacted wisdom teeth before modern dentistry.
They died. For that reason, they didn't have impacted wisdom teeth.
DeleteIt's true. There has been a massive evolutionary change in the shape of the human jaw in just the last few hundred years. Jaws used to be longer, palates used to be wider. Now most people have an overbite and many have sleep apnea and other problems associated with the narrow palate. Nobody knows exactly how it happened.
I've been on drugs from time to time, but the general anesthetic when I got my wisdom teeth out was about the wildest high I ever had.
DeleteI woke up in the middle of the operation with my jaw clamped open. I knew what they were doing. I could see the tools going in my mouth, I could feel the chiseling and prying.
It didn't hurt. I didn't care. That's DRUGS, mmkay?
I had 4 of them.
DeleteMusical, the change was we started eating more processed foods. I’m not talking about chicken nuggets and hotdogs. Our ancestors ate raw plants and coarse grains. Starting after the Middle Ages we cook or grind everything. Our jaws don’t get the workout they need to develop so they are essentially atrophied from what our ancestors had.
DeleteI'd love to know the story behind #9.
ReplyDeleteDon't you remember Bowling for Dollars?
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Bowling with Cars!
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Hey, where did you get my x-rays? I had impacted wisdom teeth on the lower, and splayed out ones on top, too. They had to bust up the bottom ones in pieces to fish them out. I don't miss them in the least. It was the pain AFTER they were removed that hurt the worst. All those teeth pushed forward, starting to migrate back where they belonged. Oh man.
ReplyDeletethat's how my wisdom teeth came in. Been gone now for almost 40 years.
ReplyDelete#6: Medieval torture device, or gay bar furnishing?
ReplyDelete#9, How,Where and WTF!
ReplyDeleteI had a 33rd tooth growing behind a wisdom tooth. Friggin' thing was an canine.
ReplyDelete#3 has me curious. What happened or did not happen correctly. Thanks for the help.
ReplyDeleteProlly bent over the cake to blow the candles out, and caught her hair on fire then.
DeleteI'm trying to figure out the point of #2 (other than shelf support on left side broke).
10 has a major infection on the upper 2nd molar, too. DDS.
ReplyDeleteLooks like some pretty good bone loss above the roots. Raging dental abscess?
Delete#9 reminds me of the old Henny Youngman joke.... "I came home and the car was in the kitchen! I asked my wife 'how did the car get in the kitchen', and she said 'i made a right from the living room' "
ReplyDelete#10 Worked for an oral surgeon for years. With IV sedation extractions were FAST!
ReplyDeleteI've seen the moving truck thing before.
ReplyDeleteAn Army dentist extracted all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth as well as 2 bicuspids one afternoon after duty. I was awakened at 0530 the next morning by hospital staff so I could make it back to my unit for PT formation. I was 19, so I just rolled with it....until the pain from the dry socket kicked in 2 days later.
ReplyDeletemusical mountaineer -- Look up Westin Price for an explanation of what happened to the shape of the jaw.
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