Awww, well, if it makes you and your sister feel any better, I had all four of my wisdom teeth out at the same time, when I was a junior in high school - and it was seriously painless. They gave me painkillers (Vicodin) and I seriously never used one. I was eating sandwitches two days after getting 'em all out. It really doesn't hurt, and I'm a total wuss when it comes to pain.
Teeth-wise, I'm your sister. I had to have my wisdoms cut out too, first time I've ever had stitches. And then I had a panic attack because I thought the stitches were coming loose even though you're apparently supposed to pick small bits of string out of your mouth for a week afterwards. My dentist is awesome, though, he gave me a sheet with instructions and his personal phone number which I was free to call day and night if anything bothered me. My husband, on the other hand, has never so much as had a cavity. I hate him so much for that.
I had oral surgery (well, aside from the 3 wisdom teeth being extracted at the same time. 'Cuz, "You jnow, we'll be in there anyway...") which seriously cut into my upper-left-cheekside gum, like down to the bone. THAT was a sleep-filled Vicatin-praising week.
Anyway, I totally did the same thing with the stitches. One came out during my first "solid" meal since the surgery. Freak. Out.
To add to the wisdom teeth extraction stories/advice...
Tell Sister Girl that you have at least one reader who had hers out on Good Friday. I was in my freshman year in high school and had to have all four doneat once. Having Easter Monday off was just enough time to recouperate to okay status. It didn't hurt that I mainly lived on my mom's super duper chocolate shakes for the whole weekend. (Chocolate milk, ice, hershey's syrup, and blue bell chocolate ice cream.)
And she shouldn't worry too much about the pain. If the dental surgeon is a good one he/she'll have her really good and gorked before doing anything. I remember breathing the nitrous and starting to get a little giggly and then... absolutely nothing until they were waking me up to get me home. And the best bet for heavy post-extraction pain without narcs is to switch off of two tylenol, two advil every two hours (so that there are at least 4 hours between two doses of tylenol and two doses of advil). Once the pain lessens, you can increase the interval to four hours
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Yarha, Whose Agnosticism has been Reinforced
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Anyway, I totally did the same thing with the stitches. One came out during my first "solid" meal since the surgery. Freak. Out.
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Tell Sister Girl that you have at least one reader who had hers out on Good Friday. I was in my freshman year in high school and had to have all four doneat once. Having Easter Monday off was just enough time to recouperate to okay status. It didn't hurt that I mainly lived on my mom's super duper chocolate shakes for the whole weekend. (Chocolate milk, ice, hershey's syrup, and blue bell chocolate ice cream.)
And she shouldn't worry too much about the pain. If the dental surgeon is a good one he/she'll have her really good and gorked before doing anything. I remember breathing the nitrous and starting to get a little giggly and then... absolutely nothing until they were waking me up to get me home. And the best bet for heavy post-extraction pain without narcs is to switch off of two tylenol, two advil every two hours (so that there are at least 4 hours between two doses of tylenol and two doses of advil). Once the pain lessens, you can increase the interval to four hours ( ... )
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mine was named fluffy and lived in a peanut-butter jar.
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