A Very Scary Day

[Creamy_Goodness]

> Yesterday was easily one of the scariest days of my life. I had a bad molar in the upper-left corner of my mouth that had to be extracted. The thought of having a tooth being yanked out of my mouth was scary enough, but what really added to the terror of the impending extraction was that I already had another molar pulled out from the opposite corner of my mouth about a year ago, and despite three shots of painkiller, having that tooth pulled hurt like hell, and that's something I never forgot. The worst moment of yesterday's extraction was just before the doctor pulled the tooth. My legs were literally shaking uncontrollably in fear, but my father was there in the room and he managed to calm me down. However, unlike the first extraction, this one didn't really hurt all that much, and the part that bothered me the most was the near-deafening drilling noise of the cutting tool as the doctor cut the tooth into three pieces in order to get it out. The actual extraction wasn't as bad as I thought is was going to be for two reasons. First, I didn't feel too much pain, because just like the first extraction, I had three shots of painkiller, and I also had a root canal done on that tooth over a year ago. Second, I had a good doctor working on my tooth who knew how to keep me calm, and my father's presence also helped.

> As scary as the moment before the extraction was, I had another scary moment later that day that was even worse. After the extraction, I was given some gauze to bite down on in order to stop the bleeding in my gum where the tooth used to be. I was instructed to keep a piece of gauze in my mouth for an hour, and then keep changing to a new one every hour after that until the gauze was light pink in color. However, I couldn't keep the first piece of gauze in my mouth for the whole hour because my jaw started hurting, so I took it out at put a new one in, and in order to reduce the pain in my jaw, I didn't really bite down on future pieces of gauze too hard. Sometime between 5PM and 7PM, well after the extraction at 3PM, I noticed that I had a potentially very serious problem, because blood was leaking out the side of my mouth, and the piece of gauze I was currently using was completely red and dripping with blood when I took it out. The bleeding was showing no signs of stopping, and during a deathmatch game of Quake 2, I had to quit in the middle of the match, even though I had the lead. I staggered downstairs to see if my parents could help me in any way, and I soon collapsed on the laundry room floor with my back against the exit door. My mouth was still pouring out blood, and my vision started to get blurry, my arms were tingling heavily and starting to go numb, I broke out in a cold sweat, and I could barely speak. For the first time in my life, I honestly thought that I might die of blood loss right there on the floor, and this easily beat the fear of the tooth's extraction in scariness. After calling my cousin, who is a maxillofacial surgeon, for advice, my parents wet a piece of gauze and had me bite down on that. My father also retrieved a tall fan, and had that blow on me. After a matter of minutes, my cold sweat stopped, and the bleeding in my mouth decreased substantially, but I was still very weak, so my parents had to pick me up, and help me walk to a chair they had set up in the kitchen. A few minutes later, they switched to a more comfortable rocking chair, and I stayed there while recovering. About an hour later around 8:45PM, I took the gauze out of my mouth and had some lime flavored Jell-O.

> It's been over 24 hours since the extraction, and I've managed to get most of my strength back. However, I've decided to take tomorrow off from work in order to make sure I fully recover faster. Yesterday's ordeal is not something that I ever want to have happen again, and with any luck I never will.

[Alpha]

They may have damaged a nerve. When I got one of my wisdom teeth out after the extraction i sat for a bit, and i got up to walk out and half way heading out the door i almost collapsed, don't know what caused it, however as time went on the anesthetic was not wearing off in my mouth. 2 days went by and i knew something wasn't right. I went back to the dentist and discovered they had damaged a nerve permanantly so now half my tongue and inside of my jawline is numb on the left hand side.

They reckon sometimes anaesthetic can cause panic attacks because of the adrenaline in it which could explain me nearly passing out and you having a bit of trouble. Let's hope your nerve isnt damaged. I hate dentists

[Golgo13]

that's rather normal.  if you don't bite down the blood will not stop for a long time. you might even faint from breathing erratically (unknowingly) or too much blood loss at once. some people clot faster than others. i was worried too when i had the gauze in my mouth for about 12 hours before it finally stopped absorbing into the gauze.