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Posted: **Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 pm**

Hello everybody!! I am brand new to this site. I am 23 years young and my name is Miranda. I have been wanting braces for years, but was always scared to approach an orthodontist. I finally grew some balls and went a couple months ago. He took my moldings and told me I need 4 teeth extracted before I get my braces on. Today is exactly a week since I had my extractions and my mouth feels great besides the speech impediment...LOL! I was deathly afraid of the procedure, but the surgeon and his assistant made the surgery pleasant. I sat down in the chair and the assistant put the nitrous oxide on my nose and started to feel a little loopy..LOL! Then the surgeon put numbing gel on my gums and a few minutes later he numbed me with novacain needles until I was fully numb. He then came back about 10mins later and he pulled all 4 of my pre-molars out. It took about 5 seconds for each tooth to come out!! I heard cracking in my bottom right pre molar, so I recommend an I-Pod!! I had no discomfort and no pain afterwards!! After the teeth pulling was over with they packed my mouth with gauze and sent me on my way. I kept drooling blood everywhere because I was so numb and couldn't control my saliva..LOL! I took my NSAID and Vicatin prescription's to Walgreen's to get filled with a bunch of gauze in my mouth and toilet paper covered in bloody saliva over my mouth (I didn't want anyone to see that gross stuff)!! I had to change my gauze every 20 mins that first day and the 2nd day I had very minimal bleeding. Then the next couple days I would wake up with dry drool blood on my cheek...LOL! I don't have any minimal bleeding anymore, just holes and blood clots. No dry socket, thank goodness! I drank water the entire week and ate soups and really soft foods. At first I had to rinse my mouth out every couple hours with salt water to keep my mouth sterile. I still do now, but only after I eat because I get food in my little holes and I don't want those to get infected. You can't smoke(which I don't) or drink out of a straw for a week. I'm still trying to adjust kissing my boyfriend properly, it's still a little hard missing 4 teeth...LOL! Also I can't brush my teeth using perioxide or whitening enhancers in the toothpaste(they "over clean" so it slows the process of healing the wounds) so I went out and bought a dollar Aquafresh bottle. Now I am just anxious to get my braces on Wednesday the 21st of October!!! YAY!

Posted: **Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:52 pm**

Miranda, wow you were a trooper having your teeth pulled. Oh man thats one thing I hate. Luckly I never hand any pulled.

Good luck with your braces, first week or two might be rough, but you will get used to them.
Good luck with your journey.

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:15 am**

SuperJet wrote:Miranda, wow you were a trooper having your teeth pulled. Oh man thats one thing I hate. Luckly I never hand any pulled.

Good luck with your braces, first week or two might be rough, but you will get used to them.
Good luck with your journey.

Thank you sooo much SuperJet!!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:23 am**

Thanks for all the details!

I'll have to go through this soon and I was always wondering about how it goes. Hehe!

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:06 am**

zeira wrote:Thanks for all the details! I'll have to go through this soon and I was always wondering about how it goes. Hehe!

No problem!!! Good luck and it will be a breeze

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:03 pm**

I had this exact thing done yesterday except one of my premolars was already missing so i had 3 teeth pulled.

My God, I was terrified. I cried and cried when the poor dentist leaned the chair back. Someone taking a big pair of pliers and wrenching your teeth out of your head...that was just terrifying to me. And I'm 34 so I probably looked really dumb laying there in the dentist's chair crying like a baby.

Now I'm just waiting for my mouth to heal some before I can eat...it's been like 36 hours of nothing but milk, water, chocolate milk, broth, la la la...stuff with no flakes in it. When I had my wisdom teeth out years ago, I learned not to get any flakes or bits of anything in my sores for at least 2 whole days.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:22 am**

Lol! I can totally empathise with the drooling!! My mom drove me back from my appointment. I leaned over to get out of the car and "spluuuuudge!" all over my pants!

I think I must be crazy, because I didn't want any nitrous! I'm not scared of the dentist however, so that's probably part of it. I actually cheered when the first tooth came out! Well, ok... I gurgled XD The dentist and assistant laughed.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:18 pm**

I cried and cried and freaked out in the dentist chair when I went in for my two extractions... it was such a scary experience but I lived through it. If I can do it, anyone can

Plus, I was 24 at the time and felt SO retarted acting the way I did in that chair.

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