I’m scared of needles and they say the have to put me under with an IV but I’d prefer anything else other than a needle, do any oral meds or anything that isn’t a needle please tell me the truth because my oral surgeon refuses to acknowledge the existence of anything and won’t answer they just redirect back to “it will be so easy you won’t even know the IV went in” I’m sick of this. Reddit please help me here?
I had tooth #3 extracted by an oral surgeon, and as the surgeon had suspected, there was a communication with the sinus cavity left behind. He attempted to patch it and place a bone graft, but unfortunately, days later the bone graft mostly fell out and I could feel air passing into my sinus from my mouth.
Months pass while we wait to see if the communication will heal but it never does. I go to a different oral surgeon (not blaming the first for the failed patch, we just didn't connect well) who proposed a buccal fat pad graft. I had that surgery done last week, but unfortunately, days later, I again feel air passing into my sinus from my mouth, so I suspect this one has failed too. He suggested it may still heal together in spite of the air leak, but we'll have to wait and see.
I'm hoping to get a better understanding of whether my experience is unusual or not for patching oroantral fistulas, and what might be in store for me in the future. I know I need to patch this hole, but recovery from both surgeries has been painful and defeating mentally, given the problem still exists and I feel like my mouth is getting permanently mangled.
Any pointers as to what might be going wrong, questions about my journey, context on the failure rate of this surgery, etc, would be very much welcome. Thank you!
i am 9 days post op from my impacted wisdom teeth removal (i had 2 on left, 1 on right)
everything was fine and healing well up until the night of day 3, when i started to feel super achey on the right side. thought it would go away, but it got so much worse. from day 6 to now, the pain has felt like a giant rubber band squeezing the right side of my head, pulsating and aching in and out all day, waking me up at 5 or 6 am, and still hurts despite alternating between 800 mg ibuprofen and acetaminophen every 3 hours. the socket itself on the right side hurts a little and feels very inflamed. strange thing is, i have very minor external swelling and no bruising.
two days ago I called my surgeons office in hopes to be seen that day to check for an infection or dry socket as I was in a lot of pain, but neither surgeons were in the office that day and were instead preforming surgeries at the local hospital. the receptionist told me to come in the following day at 2pm. i said okay, and asked if there was anything i could do for the pain in the meantime. she told me to rinse with salt water (something i’ve been doing since post op day 1, as per my post op instructions)
i continue the day in severe pain (7 or 8 out of 10) and end up calling the office, despite it being after hours.
my post op instructions explicitly state to call the office during after hours if you need to by leaving an urgent message for your surgeon and “one of them will ALWAYS be available and return your call”.
well, i never did receive a call back and ended up having to go in at 2pm the next day.
i don’t meet with my surgeon but instead met with an assistant, the one who helped me before my anesthesia and then wheeled me out to my car after my surgery.
i tell her the amount of pain i’m in and she asks my medication regime, then goes to irrigate the sockets.
she says there’s no sign of infection or dry socket as it’s past the time dry socket would occur (despite my pain showing up on day 3), and says it’s just that my right sides sutures have fallen out too early and left the socket wound much more open and exposed than it should be. she gave me a syringe and a round of clindamycin and told me the pain would go in a few days. i have a follow up appointment in 2 weeks.
i can’t sleep, i can’t think, i can’t function, i am beyond physically and emotionally drained.
i don’t know what to do and i feel so dismissed and neglected rn
My daughter is having four impacted wisdom teeth and a supernumerary (#20A) tooth removed soon. The supernumerary tooth has not erupted and will be removed from inside her mandible. We are going to a highly recommended oral surgeon who I really trust. I'm still very nervous about her procedure and recovery and would appreciate any stories that help put my mind at ease. I worked at an emergency department and Surgical Intensive Care Unit and so I've mostly seen when things have gone very wrong and I tend to catastrophize.
guys i lost the sheet of preop instruction sfor my wisdom teeth surgery under gen anesthesia tmrw. so its no nail polish, no water or food after midnight…what else? can i wear deodarant