Wisdom Out

Yes, I'm getting my wisdom out. No, not the wisdom that comes from out of our heads, but the wisdom teeth that supposedly grows out of our upper and lower jaws. Around the ages of 18-25, in the back part of our gums on our jaws, there's a chance that a tooth could pop out from each corner of the jaws. Those people that have their wisdom teeth come out have the chance to get surgery or not. For those that do not grow their wisdom teeth at all, you guys are lucky as hell because there probably wouldn't be a need for any surgery to remove them. Luckily (in a sarcastic way) for me, I'm in the bunch where my wisdom teeth has come out and my dentist has recommended me to have them removed.

On June 28th, I'll be visiting the facial surgeon and I'm going to have my wisdom teeth surgically pulled out. I've haven't had any kind of surgery in awhile and so the procedure won't really bother me since I'll be under anesthesia. Problem is with me, the way their gonna be putting me to sleep is by sticking an IV through me. After seeing many people have IV's stuck in the area above the elbow, just looking at that made me squirm a little bit. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna be given a shot to my bicep, nor being given the gas mask that would make me drowsy. They will be sticking me (No Homo) with an IV, which I'm hella nervous about. One thought that bothers me about that is if they have a hard time trying to find the vein, and having to repeatedly poke me multiple times in that area just to find the vein, that's just gonna make me more nervous as Hell. Needles are something that really makes me nervous but I got no choice but to take it and deal with it.

Since I won't be awake during the procedure, I'm not really worried about them taking out the teeth. One thing that's been on my mind though is the aftermath of the surgery. The dentist basically nailed down the problems that have the chance to occur or are likely to occur: bleeding, losing sensation and numbness to my tongue and lips, swelling of the cheeks, stitches to my gums, soreness, and most importantly I won't be able to talk for at least two weeks. So there goes two weeks of my summer, getting healed from surgery, not being able to do the things I want. It's all good though, it's better doing it over the summer than during the semester. One more note, the dentist said that it will take at least two months for the jaw bone to heal completely. That's one thing that's scary as Hell with surgeries is the aftermath of it. Once the anesthesia goes away and I start to feel the physically pain, that's the part I'm more scared about.

Recommendations of taking my wisdom teeth out came from my dentist. Reasons being is that they can cause gum disease in hard to reach areas, can push teeth and cause misalignment, become harder to take out when a person gets older, cause crowding among the other teeth, and a few other reasons I forgot. So yes, I'll be getting surgery to remove those damn wisdom teeth out and I'm nervous as Hell with the aftermath of the operation. I got less than three weeks left until operation time.