for the past week and a half, my gums on the left side of my mouth have been hurting so bad and it felt like i sliced it open somehow ( and my inner cheek has quite literally been split open from the tooth )
just looked at it for the first time in the mirror and oh boy oh boy it’s one of EIGHT :( of my wisdom teeth
i’m not gonna be able to get it out for at least another month and i can’t brush or floss that side of my mouth right so plaque has been building up super fast
THEREFORE
if anyone has any suggestions on how to brush / floss when your wisdom tooth is completely grown in and is out for the world to see ( edit: i checked again and it is only half showing, but i can feel either the rest of it or a completely other wisdom teeth bulging out of my gums ) as well as ways to lessen the pain that would be very wonderful :)
edit: just checked it again but my phone-light and i have discovered that it has a very strong green hue which i don’t need to google to know that’s a very big problem
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i have a fresh teastain on one of my front teeth and i'm trying something new called "focusing the full brunt of a sonic toothbrush on it for 20 seconds at a time" and wowee zowee it's getting smaller every day. fuck a whitestrip, you should just blast the fuck out of your teeth every night.*
*this activity may lead to unrecoverable enamel loss. the blogger does not condone this activity nor do they recommend it. please speak with your dental professional before performing any dental task outside of standard brushing and flossing. this disclaimer applicable to all statements made regarding dental activities.
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fucked up that you have to eat to take the good pain meds. i'm not especially keen on eating when i'm in pain.
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our mouth definitely feels worse than after the previous dentist appointment which I guess makes sense because they had to inject anaesthetic 3 times in multiple places and I think in the roughly 12 hours it ended up taking to fully wear off, we chewed up the inside of our lip and cheek a bunch and now I think there's some swelling, but there's also like, a weird slightly numb feeling that isn't actual numbness but keeps making me briefly think it is.
I don't know how deep they inject the anaesthetic but touching our jawbone is painful in one specific spot around where I know the needle went in so I guess it was probably pretty deep? either way I do appreciate that the dentist warned us that area would be pretty tender and that she uses numbing gel before injecting stuff.
it sucks having a ridiculously painful wisdom tooth on one side and a bunch of pain and sensitivity from the injections and brief attempt at pulling a tooth on the other side though and it is making it kinda hard to eat properly
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at what point should I contact my dentist about a *maybe* abscess in my mouth?
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