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January 02, 2006
Toothache...a sign of wisdom!
I have a bad toothache...and no...I don't have a cavity or anything or that sort. In fact I happen to take very good care of my teeth. I use to have really bad teeth when I was younger...cavities left and right, hated brushing (gross...I know but hey I was 5!!!) but luckily they were my milk teeth...so by the time I got my adult teeth, I learned my leason. So I haven't had much trouble with them...except occasionally since I was 17 a few months before my 18th birthday.
By that time...one of my wisdom tooth decided it was time to rip apart my left gum and give me a few weeks of the worst toothache ever. Of course I didn't know that was the case...not until I went to the dentist (I thought I had a cavity). I was in such excruciating pain I forced myself to go see the dentist. Plus I was leaving for Athens, Georgia and everyone knows how expensive a vist to the dentist can be in the States. So I told the dentist my problem and well she poked around abit, and sat me down...looked me in the eye and told me..."your teeth are fine, you don't have a cavity. it's just that one of your wisdom tooth is growing. so you will have to bear with the pain, for a few days as the teeth is trying to pry it's way out from under your gums." Anyways cut a long story short, she told me it usually takes awhile for a wisdom tooth to fully grow (sometimes years) and that I will feel pain occasionally as it's slowly coming out. She gave me pain killers, made me sit on the dentist chair and polished my teeth and that's it.
So for over 5 years I would occasionally feel pain on the left side of my mouth. It would usually hurt like once in a few months. I knew it wasn't a cavity, but it hurt as hell. I would always look in the mirror and check how much it had grown, hoping and praying it'll be over. I could see the tooth getting bigger and my gums giving way. Anyways my left wisdom tooth doesn't hurt anymore, although there is a bit more of it still under the gums, but it's now my right!!!
I woke up this morning with the worst pain! Looked in the mirror and saw it...a little bit of my gums on the right side of my mouth is teared. I couldn't believe it. My parents who are much older have never had their wisdom tooth come out but I have two now! It's so unfair! It hurts so bad...my mouth feels bloated. I knew very well I couldn't do anything...so I took pain killers. Not that it's working much!
I remember my dentist saying I should go check whether I will need my wisdom to be pulled out, but the thought of that just scared me. So I haven't really gone to check. Instead I did some reading today on wisdom teeth and found out that one can have up to 4 wisdom tooth and that there are many complications with getting one. Tumors, gum disease, decaying of other teeth, etc. It scared the shit out of me, but getting it pulled out scares the shit out of me as well. To pull or not to pull that is the question. Right now I just want to take some pain killers and try to go to bed!!!
Posted by zaianne at January 2, 2006 11:01 PM