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I'm having them extracted in 2 weeks. I know that it's not particularly painless, and am not looking forward to it too much, but it has to be better than this - I can't open my mouth wide enough to eat (which, lets face it, is what's getting to me most), my jaw aches, my head hurts. Yes, I'm a wimp.


And I'm listening to George Michael. It must be bad......I need some sympathy!

I've been having a similiar problem with 2 new wisdom teeth for the past couple of months but am hoping that they won't need to come out(I already have one wisdom tooth which caused me only minimal pain when it arrived). They're not too painful today actually but I do still have the problem of not being able to open my mouth wide enough to eat. Quite embarassing really, I imagine I look like I am stuffing food into my mouth in a rather uncouth way. It's bad when I'm brushing my teeth as I have to stretch and bear with the pain to reach back in there. My dental hygienist told me the pain is mostly due to food getting stuck and causing the gums to become inflamed so I make sure to clean really well.


I've also been grinding my teeth a lot lately and I think this is due to the 2 new teeth as it seems to be on that one side(or it could be stress caused by the state of the economy). Does give me a jaw and headache as well.

Has anyone actually suffered the barbaric method of extracting teeth on the cheap. My mum has told me that my grandad did it once to my uncle Keith (deceased).


He'd employ this savage technique because he'd seen it done on an all to inspiring level when he was in the R.A.F. During his adventures in the skies of the eastern Mediterranian one or two of his fellow airman developed toothache to the point whereby they needed to be removed. Now we all take the notion that tying a tooth to a door and slamming it as a humourous suggestion to an all too painful predicament.


When deployed in these remote forward air fields there was an alarming lack of doors to slam. My grandads bombardier developed toothache and their squadron leader suggested and executed an inspiring way of literally ripping the tooth from the unfortunate fellows mouth. They took a piece of strong cord and lashed it to the propeller of an aircraft. They tied the other end to the troublesome tooth. They fired up the engine.


Jobsagoodun.

You have my sympathy the pain is bloody awful and the sooner you get it down and are out of the pain the better,

I had three wisdom teeth out at the same time at Kings about ten years ago and it was done fairly painlessly. Nothing worry about there. It just feels that there's a bit of a hole in your mouth for a little while afterwards until it heals up. You'll be needing to gargle plenty of Listerine afterwards to stop any infection forming.

Are there stitches? BBW I'm glad I'm not in the RAF and never will be, do people still pull out teeth on the cheap now? I guess they must. Doesn't bear thinking about though.


My bathroom is going to turn into a shrine to listerine, don't worry! No more infections for me, I've had enough of them! They did have a cancellation today, but I didn't think you should pull a tooth out with an infection?

I had all four of my back teeth taken out in one go to make way for my wisdom teeth to come through and my teeth were too strong to be pulled out so the dentist went upstairs to get an implement called cow horns (i think it was while ago). He'd never had to use before and had to crack my teeth into bits one by one and there was blood everywhere. But on the plus side I was so full of injections that it didn't hurt. It's weird getting used to the 'holes' where the teeth were but it will definitely be worth it. I'd never heard of clove oil but it sounds great. Good luck, it will be worth the wait!

"BBW I'm glad I'm not in the R.A.F and never will be, do people still pull teeth out on the cheap now?"


Yes, I imagine it would've been an uncomfortable flight back to their base in Alex. I don't think the practice of pulling teeth out with a door (or propeller) and a piece of string is very widespread Kells, but I imagine that sort of thing still goes on in Gypsy camps and Irish households who are parishioners of the Christian Brotherhood.

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