THE STORY OF MY TEETHS
as promised! i got two wisdom teeth taken out on friday last - the bottoms. i have a great mouth... it's big and my teeth are strong and straight. it's nice. unfortunately, i had these gummy tissue bits growing over my back wisdoms and it was super painful because things would get trapped in there and i would chew on them and... yuck. recently they really started bothering me, and i just got coverage through school, so i decided to suck it up and get them removed.
so, i went in after school on friday and chilled out in the dentist chair for a while. i was kind of stressed out about it because in the two weeks between my consultation/x-ray and my extraction, everyone i talked to had told me their scary wisdom tooth stories... and the dentist had said NOTHING even remotely implying general anaesthetic or anything more than just freezing me. i was a little scared,
i got there and they did a tooth cleaning, then she injected me on my right side and got ready to extract. i asked for something... she gave me a mild sedative, but all it did was make me stop fidgeting. (i am a fidgeter. a leg-shaker. it's true; i'm always moving.) so i was all frozen and she poked at my teeth a little with this thing and then with this other thing and then she said "okay, there's going to be a lot of pressure," and then there was a lot of pressure and then i heard a tooth hit the tray.
wait. was that... was that it? "um. is that it?" only it came out a little mumblier because i couldn't feel half of my mouth. "yes," she said. "do you want the other done, too?"
of course! jesus, i might as well! that was... it was SO EASY. so she froze the other side. "this one will be a bit harder. it's not quite out as much."
pull. press. pop. clink.
"am i done?" "yes, you're done. do you want the tops out?" "oh, no, not today." "okay, well, here are some painkillers." she passes me three promo packs of two advil each, gives me some gauze to bite down on and sends me on my way. "you'll probably get home and want to fall asleep. just sleep off the freezing and make sure you change your gauze when you wake up."
holy shit. sleep? no way. i was JAZZED. my friend picked me up and accompanied me on the bus home. we walked about ten blocks to my house and two blocks away from home my mouth filled up with blood and drool and i had to spit it out - but i was fine.
i expected to want to sleep. i thought about napping. then my roommates got home... my freezing wore off... i did some things i shouldn't have done with stitched up holes in my mouth. stayed up super late. woke up early and spent my day active. went to the beach. did more things i shouldn't have done with those holes in my mouth. stayed up SUPER late that night, woke early again the next day.
yes. i feel like a hundred dollars. and i'm going to make the teeth into an earring.
as promised! i got two wisdom teeth taken out on friday last - the bottoms. i have a great mouth... it's big and my teeth are strong and straight. it's nice. unfortunately, i had these gummy tissue bits growing over my back wisdoms and it was super painful because things would get trapped in there and i would chew on them and... yuck. recently they really started bothering me, and i just got coverage through school, so i decided to suck it up and get them removed.
so, i went in after school on friday and chilled out in the dentist chair for a while. i was kind of stressed out about it because in the two weeks between my consultation/x-ray and my extraction, everyone i talked to had told me their scary wisdom tooth stories... and the dentist had said NOTHING even remotely implying general anaesthetic or anything more than just freezing me. i was a little scared,
i got there and they did a tooth cleaning, then she injected me on my right side and got ready to extract. i asked for something... she gave me a mild sedative, but all it did was make me stop fidgeting. (i am a fidgeter. a leg-shaker. it's true; i'm always moving.) so i was all frozen and she poked at my teeth a little with this thing and then with this other thing and then she said "okay, there's going to be a lot of pressure," and then there was a lot of pressure and then i heard a tooth hit the tray.
wait. was that... was that it? "um. is that it?" only it came out a little mumblier because i couldn't feel half of my mouth. "yes," she said. "do you want the other done, too?"
of course! jesus, i might as well! that was... it was SO EASY. so she froze the other side. "this one will be a bit harder. it's not quite out as much."
pull. press. pop. clink.
"am i done?" "yes, you're done. do you want the tops out?" "oh, no, not today." "okay, well, here are some painkillers." she passes me three promo packs of two advil each, gives me some gauze to bite down on and sends me on my way. "you'll probably get home and want to fall asleep. just sleep off the freezing and make sure you change your gauze when you wake up."
holy shit. sleep? no way. i was JAZZED. my friend picked me up and accompanied me on the bus home. we walked about ten blocks to my house and two blocks away from home my mouth filled up with blood and drool and i had to spit it out - but i was fine.
i expected to want to sleep. i thought about napping. then my roommates got home... my freezing wore off... i did some things i shouldn't have done with stitched up holes in my mouth. stayed up super late. woke up early and spent my day active. went to the beach. did more things i shouldn't have done with those holes in my mouth. stayed up SUPER late that night, woke early again the next day.
yes. i feel like a hundred dollars. and i'm going to make the teeth into an earring.
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You have stretched ears, right? You could get them cast into plugs - maybe in amber! But wearing your own teeth as jewelry is really hardcore no matter how you do it really.