The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX

[Arwon]

True or false: Women's sex drives are usually inversely proportional to their breast size while women's prudishness are usually proportional to their breast size.

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Not. Even. Slightly.

 

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True or false: Women's sex drives are usually inversely proportional to their breast size while women's prudishness are usually proportional to their breast size.

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Do you read some version of Wikipedia where everything is a stereotype and the stereotypes are completely made up?

 

[NickyJ]

Question: In a few months, my wisdom teeth are going to be surgically removed. I know that I'm going to be unconscious while they're being removed, but is novacane usually used in addition to it?

 

[Farm Boy]

Question: In a few months, my wisdom teeth are going to be surgically removed. I know that I'm going to be unconscious while they're being removed, but is novacane usually used in addition to it?

Unless it's changed a bunch in the last 10 years, standard MO seems to be nitrous oxide(laughing gas) to numb then an injected anesthetic to put you out. Afterwards they sent me home with Vicodin for pain relief, but it made me sick enough to my stomach that just "toughing it out" for a couple days was preferable to trying not to puke in my sockets. I think I took two pills and the rest wound up in the garbage.

 

[bhsup]

Man, I had nobody to drive me home so I couldn't be knocked out. They just used locals around my mouth. I could feel the pressure as the dentist pressed down with the pliars to shatter one of them (some weird angle it was coming in at), but no sharp pain. And the crunch sound...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Is there a current browser that doesn't suck ?
Firefox has become so sluggish and unstable that I switched to Chrome, but Chrome ironically refuses to load any images found through google image search.

 

[NickyJ]

Unless it's changed a bunch in the last 10 years, standard MO seems to be nitrous oxide(laughing gas) to numb then an injected anesthetic to put you out. Afterwards they sent me home with Vicodin for pain relief, but it made me sick enough to my stomach that just "toughing it out" for a couple days was preferable to trying not to puke in my sockets. I think I took two pills and the rest wound up in the garbage.

Ouch. Does not sound fun. (Okay, yeah, getting teeth taken out of your mouth is never fun, but you know what I mean. )

Man, I had nobody to drive me home so I couldn't be knocked out. They just used locals around my mouth. I could feel the pressure as the dentist pressed down with the pliars to shatter one of them (some weird angle it was coming in at), but no sharp pain. And the crunch sound...

Do you enjoy giving people nightmares?

 

[bhsup]

Is there a current browser that doesn't suck ?
Firefox has become so sluggish and unstable that I switched to Chrome, but Chrome ironically refuses to load any images found through google image search.

Believe it or not, IE9 rocks. And this is coming from someone who switched to Netscape Navigator at version 0.9something from Netmanage Chameleon, then faithfully used it all the way up through Firefox up until about a year ago (I even stayed with Mozilla obviously after their ASININE decision to abandon the suite in favor of Phoenix/Firefox.)

Now, I did purchase the premium version of admuncher to deal with ads, and I also installed Do Not Track Plus. Get those two things and IE rocks you like a hurricane, baby!

Do you enjoy giving people nightmares?

Hey, I'm the sandman. I'm fun! Off to never never land with you!

 

[Farm Boy]

Ouch. Does not sound fun. (Okay, yeah, getting teeth taken out of your mouth is never fun, but you know what I mean. )

Getting them taken out while unconscious wasn't too bad. Apparently, so my mom says, I was happy as a clam riding home in the car even if I was nonsensical and can't really remember it. The pain is well, pain, but it isn't soul crushing and you know it's going to go away rather than be chronic. Only thing I would caution is to really follow the cleaning and eating instructions they send you home with. So long as you keep everything clean and don't break a clot or tear any stitches things should heal pretty quickly and only be an annoyance. If you don't do things right and get a dry socket, well, that would be much more painful. It's almost entirely avoidable though, so just don't be unwise.

 

[Borachio]

Man, I had nobody to drive me home so I couldn't be knocked out. They just used locals around my mouth. I could feel the pressure as the dentist pressed down with the pliars to shatter one of them (some weird angle it was coming in at), but no sharp pain. And the crunch sound...

I just love having teeth pulled. No, really it's delicious...that crunchy gristly sound as they come out, wouldn't miss it for the world. I just wish I had more teeth than I do.

General anaesthetics aren't necessary at all unless you've got impacted wisdom teeth, perhaps. Still, if you're having 4 out at once, I suppose that might be a bit more of a thing.

 

[Quackers]

I just love having teeth pulled. No, really it's delicious...that crunchy gristly sound as they come out, wouldn't miss it for the world. I just wish I had more teeth than I do.

General anaesthetics aren't necessary at all unless you've got impacted wisdom teeth, perhaps. Still, if you're having 4 out at once, I suppose that might be a bit more of a thing.

Are you being honest with that first comment? I think I got the measure of you but on this i can't decide if i'm getting trolled (beauitfully) or your being honest.

 

[NickyJ]

Getting them taken out while unconscious wasn't too bad. Apparently, so my mom says, I was happy as a clam riding home in the car even if I was nonsensical and can't really remember it. The pain is well, pain, but it isn't soul crushing and you know it's going to go away rather than be chronic. Only thing I would caution is to really follow the cleaning and eating instructions they send you home with. So long as you keep everything clean and don't break a clot or tear any stitches things should heal pretty quickly and only be an annoyance. If you don't do things right and get a dry socket, well, that would be much more painful. It's almost entirely avoidable though, so just don't be unwise.

I usually follow instructions pretty closely when it comes to medical matters, so hopefully it won't be too much of a problem.

I just love having teeth pulled. No, really it's delicious...that crunchy gristly sound as they come out, wouldn't miss it for the world. I just wish I had more teeth than I do.

General anaesthetics aren't necessary at all unless you've got impacted wisdom teeth, perhaps. Still, if you're having 4 out at once, I suppose that might be a bit more of a thing.

I'm going to have all four removed at once, as far as I know. One of them I know for certain is coming down horizontally, the rest I couldn't see well on the x-ray.

An additional question: Will I have to temporarily change my diet?

 

[Quackers]

Your lucky to get gassed. In the UK I had to have a local anasthetic and I had to endure a metal plier grip my tooth and pull it out. I couldn't feel any pain but I felt the big hole in my gum when the tooth was pulled (it had a long freakin' root ). Painless but not very pleasant.

 

[Borachio]

General Anaesthetic rules are: "nil by mouth" from tea time the night before.

Or do you mean afterwards? That, in my experience, will be up to you. I would expect you won't want anything much for 2 or 3 hours after. And then you've not to disturb the blood clots for a few days. So no rough stuff in the mouth.

But, hey, this is routine stuff. Nothing to worry about.

 

[Farm Boy]

An additional question: Will I have to temporarily change my diet?

They put me on liquids and mush for a while afterwards, no straws! Ice cream shakes, applesauce, mac n'cheese, and the like aren't too bad for a while little while.

I didn't really want to eat much for a couple of days anyhow, but remember I wasn't taking the pain medication either. It was less convenient a half week or so in when your appetite is back and your sockets still aren't 100%. Didn't help that I had mine out almost immediately before New Years 2000 and I really would have preferred to go out and get blitzed.

 

[bhsup]

For what it's worth, take their admonishment not to smoke to heart. I lit up in the car driving home and continued to smoke regularly afterwards. I don't -know- if that was the problem, but my mouth was in pain for a long time afterwards.

 

[Farm Boy]

For what it's worth, take their admonishment not to smoke to heart. I lit up in the car driving home and continued to smoke regularly afterwards. I don't -know- if that was the problem, but my mouth was in pain for a long time afterwards.

Doses of nicotine and tar screw up how flesh heals. Your mouth heals amazingly fast, but it has limits. Basically it's trying to heal around and over subsequent coatings of tar.

 

[NickyJ]

General Anaesthetic rules are: "nil by mouth" from tea time the night before.

Or do you mean afterwards? That, in my experience, will be up to you. I would expect you won't want anything much for 2 or 3 hours after. And then you've not to disturb the blood clots for a few days. So no rough stuff in the mouth.

But, hey, this is routine stuff. Nothing to worry about.

Afterwards, but now that you mention it, would I even be able to have water?

They put me on liquids and mush for a while afterwards, no straws! Ice cream shakes, applesauce, mac n'cheese, and the like aren't too bad for a while little while.

I didn't really want to eat much for a couple of days anyhow, but remember I wasn't taking the pain medication either. It was less convenient a half week or so in when your appetite is back and your sockets still aren't 100%. Didn't help that I had mine out almost immediately before New Years 2000 and I really would have preferred to go out and get blitzed.

Would soups with simple meats and vegetables be fine as well?

Final question: How long does healing usually take? A week or two?

 

[Gamemaster77]

Question: In a few months, my wisdom teeth are going to be surgically removed. I know that I'm going to be unconscious while they're being removed, but is novacane usually used in addition to it?

Unless it's changed a bunch in the last 10 years, standard MO seems to be nitrous oxide(laughing gas) to numb then an injected anesthetic to put you out. Afterwards they sent me home with Vicodin for pain relief, but it made me sick enough to my stomach that just "toughing it out" for a couple days was preferable to trying not to puke in my sockets. I think I took two pills and the rest wound up in the garbage.

I agree with Farm Boy. Do not take the Vicodin or any really strong pain pills. The injected anesthetic doesn't completely put you out though. Its a bit odd because when it is done, you feel like you were there the whole time, but it went by quickly.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I agree with Farm Boy. Do not take the Vicodin or any really strong pain pills. The injected anesthetic doesn't completely put you out though. Its a bit odd because when it is done, you feel like you were there the whole time, but it went by quickly.

A far better piece of advice would be to say:
Take the medicine as you need it and as it's prescribed. If you can or want to do without it, good for you. But these two guys are obviously heroic mouth-champs that can deal with serious pain.

My wife and I were both given percocets (vicoden? Is your doctor some kind of scrip-pansy?) and needed them badly. I strongly counter any advice for you to NOT take your pain meds, NickyJ.

Also, as soon as the anasthetic wears off, I'd go ahead and take a pain medicine. I had four taken out at once as well and I waited till the anesthetic fully wore of to take the percocet. It was the most painful thirty minutes of my life waiting for it to kick in, and I've had other surgeries. Teeth pulling topped them all for those 30 minutes. By the time the percocet kicks in, the anasthetic will be wearing off so interaction will be minimal. If the doctor gives explicit instructions otherwise however, follow those.

Avoid crunchy foods in particular for a few weeks. You should be able to handle things other than mush pretty quickly.

You will feel 90% healed after 2-3 weeks. It will prolly take a couple months before you get used to the new holes in your mouth however.

Do avoid smoking. It gave my wife dry socket, though somehow I managed to avoid it, but shouldn't have.

Even though your existence causes me annoyance to the umpteenth degree, seriously, good luck with your surgery and heal up fast.

Any chance you'll be getting carparel tunnel corrections soon so I won't have to see your posts?

JK be well