• Chronicon [they/them]
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    3 days ago

    I know people who permanently lost feeling in parts of their face because of dental surgery (and that's after a longish painful recovery) Risking that just to remove a non-painful, not even impacted tooth, is insane to me

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      I just remembered the second part of this story.

      Originally I had just 1 top one removed, I wanted to do top and bottom separately.

      By the time I got around to the bottom one, it righted itself and was no longer dangerous to rip out. I cant even remember which ones I got out at this point, I know I only pulled 3/4. That's how unproblematic the fourth was. I only got the other pulled because they were getting cavities from their bastard positioning.

      The dental surgeons looked at me with disdain when I didn't fund their car payment on unneeded work. Simply waiting made it go from "very risky" to non-issue and not a single dentist/surgeon thought of it as a possibility for me.