Have my wisdom teeth taken out

Maybe because it erupted after all other wisdom teeth did, but my dentist found it to have a pocket 11 mm deep (apparently that’s bad news).

But now I can open my mouth and show people my lack of wisdom (teeth, that is).

Earlier today I got my upper right wisdom tooth removed.

Also the tooth next to it had to be removed, due to problems in that area.

At least it’s over, and I haave 3 weeks to recover until the next appointment. Time for me to begin my new diet of noodle soups and milkshakes.

Yesterday I went to the dentist’s office to get a new set of x-rays and get my teeth cleaned (part of which involves getting my gums repeatedly stabbed by small sharp things. Oh the misery. And my dentist wondered why I put this off for so long).

And apparently those 2 teeth are still causing crowding problems (I thought I heard the dentist talk to his assistant about occlusions. Are braces next?), so it was decided to extract those teeth. Or as my dentist said earlier to the assistant, “Tooth #1 is E.X.T.”.

Anyway, August 31 is the date for the first of my last 2 wisdom teeth, and two or three weeks after that for the final tooth.

Let’s get this over with.

Time to eat only soft foods to prevent any more breakage. I thank my lucky stars that the affected tooth is already dead (the power of root canals), so there’s no pain.

So by next Tuesday, my wisdom will increase by a small amount (that is, if they remove the wisdom tooth causing the crowding)

Because my top right wisdom tooth just cracked one of my front teeth in half. There’s no pain in the now broken tooth though since it was already dead (root canal a couple of years ago), but why a front tooth?

Serves me right for not getting the last 2 wisdom teeth extracted long ago. I am never looking in a mirror again until that front tooth is fixed.

Although my wisdom teeth were all impacted, not all are causing the same amount of problems or pain so it was decided that a 1-at-a-time removal would be best.

My lower right wisdom tooth was growing in the ugliest way. It was positioned literally at a 90-degree angle, with its top pushing into the side of the next tooth, destroying it in the process. Upon seeing the x-ray, I wanted it gone.

A year later my upper left wisdom tooth began causing pain. Even though it was a normal impact, parallel to normal teeth, it was time.

And another year has passed, but no problems currently, but I should get these last two pulled sometime.