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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
It was so grown into my bone that they had to cut it into pieces
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Yeah, I think that's when they refer to an oral surgeon here in the US. Maybe oral surgery is an uncommon specialty in your country or something. Or perhaps dental school prepares dentists to do this sort of thing.
One of my sockets had to be opened up again and debrided because it was causing me pain. Surgeon said there was a higher than normal amount of inflammation. No general anesthesia for that, but it was fine. I was scared going in at the idea of him opening up the stitches and scraping tissue out because that sounds pretty awful.
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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
It definitely made me scared of anesthesia though, since it seemed to wear off faster than they expected for me, and in different circumstances that sounds kind of uncomfortable...
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Yikes. I do think some people metabolize anesthetics more quickly. I have a friend who woke up during her oral surgery. She couldn't move or open her eyes, but she could feel them breaking up her teeth for removal. She was in pain, although I'm sure it wasn't as bad as if no anesthetic had been given.
I once woke up during a colonoscopy, but that wasn't upsetting since I wasn't in pain. I think the US is the odd one out in terms of sedating for colonoscopies anyway.
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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
They tried to give me laughing gas, but nobody told me that it can kind of make you high, I had never even been drunk at that point in my life and suddenly started perceiving the world differently, which freaked me out.
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I think I tend to fall asleep with laughing gas. Or maybe it has an amnesia effect. They really blast the laughing gas here in my experience. I remember the dentist saying to turn it up because I was still alert last time I had a filling. I'm always far too out of it to perceive anything other than intense sleepiness.