Wisdom teeth?

At my age (44) it appears my wisdom teeth are coming in. The lower teeth on the right side have been hurting for a few days. I thought it was sinus. I get this pain when the seasons change. Today while exploring the area with my tounge I felt a rough spot. Poking a booger picker in there feels like a tooth coming thru. E36 M3, just what I need this time of year not to mention this economy.

Who even has dental insurance any more? I only even have a catastrostrophic medical policy. Oh well. Sucks to be me.

porksboy wrote: At my age (44) it appears my wisdom teeth are coming in. The lower teeth on the right side have been hurting for a few days. I thought it was sinus. I get this pain when the seasons change. Today while exploring the area with my tounge I felt a rough spot. Poking a booger picker in there feels like a tooth coming thru. E36 M3, just what I need this time of year not to mention this economy. Who even has dental insurance any more? I only even have a catastrostrophic medical policy. Oh well. Sucks to be me.

If you get put under for the procedure, there's a good chance the claim could be submitted on a medical CMS1500 form.

If it's already poking out (like my two uppers, taken out at different times), they can likely shoot you up with novacain, yank it, and send you on your way.

I had one like that. Dentist cut, poked, prodded and yanked for the better part of an hour, before getting it out in pieces. No fun. Of course I then had a dry socket to endure. Yes, drugs were involved.

I put up with five years of jaw pain every morning while mine came in during my early 20s.. every time I went to the dentist they told me I don't have to have them removed, that I have enough room in my (chiseled) jaw.

I damn near bribed them to pull them out, I'd rather have a few weeks of post-removal pain than the five years of jaw ache.

I ended up having 5(!) wisdom teeth. my 3 uppers didn't come in until my 20's

mndsm wrote: I ended up having 5(!) wisdom teeth. my 3 uppers didn't come in until my 20's

I have 6. No joke. I'm lucky my wife even married me, I'm such a counterevolutionary freak.

Joey

IIRC two wisdom teeth can be pulled easily. The other two have to be cut out.

I had all four done at once when I was 18. I was put to sleep and woke up 15 minutes later. Dr. was done and already gone to lunch. I had four big holes in my gums.

Never had um removed and I don't plan on it. I see the dentist in five days. I'll keep ya's updated.

I have impacted wisdom teeth that are sideways under my gums. I hate looking at the x-rays because it looks creepy as hell. Gotta get them out next year hopefully, I'm tired of getting infected gums.

I have wisdom teeth. I hate them. Everybody at the dentist's office loves them, tells me how lucky I am. The dentist says they fit great, but I am sick of biting the inside of my cheek on a regular basis. It hurts like hell.

I had impacted wisdom teeth, one was coming in perpendicular to the rest of my teeth. I had all of them out in one visit, they put me under and apparently used a jackhammer on my face while I was under, based on how it felt the next day. I have a really small jaw, so they probably did not have an easy go of it. After a few days i was ready to go.

I'm also in my 40's and have a pending wisdom teeth issue. I do have dental coverage, but the $1250/yr max wouldn't cover that level of work. From what I've heard, you basically need to wait until they become a "medical" issue, then having them removed gets covered under your normal medical insurance.

I also still have a couple of baby teeth... Every time I go to a new dentist, it's amusing to watch them all gather around and stare at my teeth. Maybe when I have some more money saved in my HSA, I'll investigate having the baby teeth pulled which may allow for the wisdom teeth to come in without causing too much trouble.

I'm scheduled to have 4 removed tomorrow morning. Super excited! :(

I've had all four removed in three visits. I have insurance, but they only cover removal if there is a problem. So I had to wait until they gave me pain or just had a cavity. Only one required major physical effort and breaking it out in pieces. Fairly painless and not much recovery issues as long as you keep your new holes clean.

I went to a dentist once who looked and said "Oh, you have your wisdom teeth. We need to take those out." I said, "Thanks, but NO." I mean, it's like if I saw patients and said "Oh, I see you still have your appendix. We need to take that out." Another dentist said "Oh, you have three cavities. We need to fill them." I said "No, my teeth heal themselves, thanks anyway."

porksboy wrote: Who even has dental insurance any more?

This past August I was told our health insurance changed 4 days after the change. My wife had surgery later that month that would have been 100% covered in July; and is now in the $4,500+ range for my portion. We might have been able to push the surgery back into July????

So I send the Doc $200+ a month until they start screaming back..............

had 4 of them pulled out the day I started college... by that point they where already crowding my mouth and had at least 1 impacted...

last time I went to the dentist they found I still have 1...

glad I got them out when I did... and I elected to be put under which cost mom and dad a few hundred that the military insurance didn't cover... but much better then being awake for that lol...

I was in my late 20s, in the Navy, when a base dentist talked me into having mine taken out. It took 3 or 4 shots and nearly 1 and 1/2 hours for him to break up ONE tooth and extract it. Then he accidently prescribed a too SMALL dose of painkillers (he prescribed the same dose as he had had prescribed for him when he had his out...I out weighed him by about 30-40 lbs.) A few months later, when the Navy offered to take the others out (I was at a different base by then) I found out I had 4 more wisdom teeth, for a total of 5. From what I've read so far, it seems like 5 or even 6 is borderline common.

BTW, the 4 were taken out in a hospital in 15 minutes.

I got 4 taken out on the same day. 2 impacted, one was completely sideways, the other caused a cavity. Waited almost 10 years to get them taken out. I was awake for it all. I posted on here about it, some of the volunteered stories about self dentistry made me feel like a Bob Costas for complaining. Undid some of the bracework my parents paid for when I was younger, but at least my insurance covered it. Percocet was my friend that weekend.

Got it crowned shortly after, damn that sucked.

What is an impacted one mean? Is it pushing against the others? How do I tell if mine is/are? We only carry a catastrophic medical policy so it will cost me one way or another. None of us have ever satisfied the deductible excepting when my daughter was born. Then we had a pos policy. It still cost us as much as if we had the catastrophic coverage.

mndsm wrote: I ended up having 5(!) wisdom teeth. my 3 uppers didn't come in until my 20's

Some mutants get to control the weather or ferrous metals... you get 5 wisdom teeth. That isn't even a "sidekick" worthy mutation unless we need a hero to chew something.

I had mine out in my early 20's. I was still bleeding a lot, so Doc said not to do anything strenuous for the next few days. 3 hours later I was upside down on a bucket seat, with my head under the dash of an Impala SS.

porksboy wrote: What is an impacted one mean? Is it pushing against the others? How do I tell if mine is/are? We only carry a catastrophic medical policy so it will cost me one way or another. None of us have ever satisfied the deductible excepting when my daughter was born. Then we had a pos policy. It still cost us as much as if we had the catastrophic coverage.

Impacted is when the tooth is below the gumline. Partially or completely. Can be up and down or sideways or leaning at an angle.

Saw the x-ray yesterday. Tops won't need extraction and bottoms are not currently a problem. Now for these root canals...