Unwise wisdom tooth surgery
When my wisdom teeth were carving their way through my jaw bones one of the bottom ones left a tag of skin like a vestigal tail that went from the back of the tooth to halfway across it. It was the only bit of gum that the tooth had looked at and decided it didn't want to rip it away.

I thought the little flap would just shrink back and leave me with a normal tooth hole, with neat little edges all the way around my new toothy peg. I couldn't have been more wrongerer. It just stayed there, like a stubby tail, trapping food underneath it, catching itself on the sharp bits of tooth, bending backwards when I ate (fuck me that hurt!) and inflaming itself.

As I wasn't registered with a dentist, and being a skint student, I decided to take care of it myself after a month of it and the tooth inflaming the back of my jaw and fucking with my eustachian tubes (i used to get a lot of earaches). I got a pen knife, sterilised it in the flame of a lighter, and then looking in the mirror i held my cake hole open and started to saw through the back of the skin flap. It was pretty awkward to get at, I had to use the tip of the knife instead of the flatter cutting edge.

There was a fair bit of blood, but once it'd stopped flowing the relief my DIY flapenectomy gave me was pretty instant. Worked like a charm. The gum settled down, no more trapped food, no more ear aches. Gum healed up nicely and all was well.

Dentisty, surgery... there isn't much to it really, it's just like being a mechanic but with squidgy things.
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:29, 1 reply)

Flipping good show!
I spent £126 today getting my wisdom tooth removed. As it had worked loose through insessant prodding, I considered something similar but bottled it. You are my dental icon! Have a click. :o)
( sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 18:15, closed)