My Tooth Extractor, it worked very well, mostly painless and fast on everything but the fangs, the slip knot just could not get a bite on them. Get loop around tooth, tighten slip knot, start winding the string up and applying constant pressure and POP out comes the tooth. Had to visit the dentist to get the big rooted tapered fangs extracted and as a bonus almost no blood and very little swelling after extraction. Bottle of Wild Turkey highly recommended both for pain killer during the extraction and for the antiseptic rinse when finished. I should have cut the fork off the end of the stick but by the time I realized that I was drunk enough to not care
I've had most of the complications mentioned during five tooth extractions. I had two wisdom teeth that had to be split and cut out of my jaw in pieces, and I had dry sockets in both of them. The article described the symptoms perfectly. "...throbbing jaw pain and very foul breath." I can tell you that no pain reliever will help this throbbing pain, and the foul smell includes an even worse taste. Dead cat or rotting corpse smell is the best way I can describe it. Pain is so intense that you will not be able to sleep. Clove oil saturated cotton string, wiped with clean gauze so it was just wet with what was soaked into the string worked like magic. Coiled and carefully tucked into the cavity of exposed bone it immediately stopped the pain and gave me fresh clove oil breath. After about a week the string was carefully removed to see if a clot had formed. If it hadn't, you'd know right away, since the pain would return. Clove oil was such a miracle cure for my dental pain that some cotton string and a little bottle of clove oil has been included in my medical kit for a couple decades. It's not easy to find, but old fashioned (real) pharmacies will have it. Definitely worth including in your bag of tricks.
I just went through pretty much the same thing! I had two wisdom teeth that never fully came in, and the other two were rotted out below the gum line, so they all had to come out! 4 hours in the dentists chair and un believable pain from damn near having my jaw broken and the dentist had to shatter the upper left to get it all out! Apparently I have really big roots, because I also had to have the bone ground down later! I ended up having two dry sockets and you ain't kidding about the breath and foul taste! Fast forward a couple years later and I knocked out two front teeth and broke a third, so I had to get the broken bits out and patched up! Ended up with another dry socket and super intense pain! Now I have a tumor under my right eye, it's from the corruption left over from the dry socket, and I have to go in next Thursday for surgery to remove it and hope like hell it isn't cancer AND, it didn't metastasize! On top of that, I have bone growth along side the now empty socket and it needs to be opened up and ground down, basically a bone spur! I'm going to be a frickin train wreck, but I gotta get it done! Field dentistry ain't all that hard, grab the tooth with a cheap pair of harbor freight bent tip stork plier sand yank, preferably after a bottle of rotgut whisky ( for the patient, not the "Dentist") and then lots of clean gauze for packing and Advil for the pain!
Mine had already cracked and broken off, so there was nothing for the dentist (thank GOD for dentist) to pull on...so he had to cut it out in two pieces. It only took about 10 minutes. That was a week ago, and no problems. No pain, no dry socket, and no foul smell or taste! Just packed my socket with gauze and changed it every so often. I never got my prescription for pain-killers filled. Took some Advil, got a good night sleep and went to work the next day.
My molars have been cracking and have had tooth implants. Had th dentist tell me my years of chewing ice have put hairline cracks in my teeth and now I'm paying the price -- yea tooth implants ain't cheap
Wisdom tooth extraction was a condition of reenlistment for me. Even though they were fully grown in and causing no issues I was Class 4 dental until they were pulled. If they needed the practice then they sure didn't after 1990 and wanted to try to save a completely dead and split tooth after a failed root canal. Pulling the tooth made me deployable, so I won that battle, and got the remains of that razor sharp broken molar pulled. Years later the VA made me a very nice gold crown that has been holding up great for more than twenty years.
Same here, sort of. I had begun my second enlistment, switching from Airforce first term to Navy. Made the mistake of letting the recruiter sign me into nuke school and sub volunteer. Had just finished OSVET indoc on Great Lakes recruitside. They said I couldn't go to mainside for tech school til I got all wisdom teeth out. Gave me the chance of "two now, two later", but I said "No, take them all now, I won't be back!" Three popped right out, fourth had to be hacked out in three pieces. Final novacaine kicked in after extraction. Whole side of my face was numb. Then I had to explain to the Chief Master-at-arms why I was contesting a parking ticket on my car. Bleeding all over his desk! He tore the ticket up and told me "get the H out!" Got the afternoon off, but was at work next day. Fun and games.
Dentist wanted to pull ALL of my wisdom teeth 40 years ago, because they might cause problems someday. I told them that we could just wait until that day arrived.
After coved I began loosing teeth and when loose enough I pulled the my self. through the years I have removed a few that went bad , no alcohol or drugs. I still have enough teeth to chew meat, but over time I'm sure that that will soon end. It's just a process of life.
Just what the Navy told me! They also said an abscess could cause a major problem due to pressures in a sub. Of course, a few months later, I was dropped from the nuke/sub vol program (thank God!), so that "what-if" went away.
