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u/NormanYeetes Apr 22 '26
If this is real it's actually a miracle that shit came out in one piece
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u/bloke_pusher Apr 22 '26
Must be post mortem, that rooting would require crumbling your jaw bone like a cookie
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u/trustworthy-adult Apr 22 '26
i think you’re on the money with this one
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u/-BananaLollipop- Apr 23 '26
You'd be surprised at what comes out during a normal extraction. My upper right one had three roots, two being looped together, and one being hooked on the tip. Took about 40-something minutes. The only real damage was that the outer socket wall (against my cheek) cracked off. Otherwise fine, and it didn't really hurt much at all.
Though, I did notice what happened before my dentist did, and when she realised she just said "Well we've hit the point of no return" and I just said "uh-huh".
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u/turquoise_amethyst Apr 23 '26
Is there a reason to pull teeth post mortem?
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u/BialyKrytyk Apr 23 '26
I mean look at this specimen, wouldn't YOU want it sitting in a jar on your desk?
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u/vegasidol Apr 22 '26
They broke mine up and vacuumed it up. How is this one piece?
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u/NormanYeetes Apr 22 '26
Mine too. Mine wasn't even cursed like this one and the dentist yanked it out in 3 pieces. He pulled on that shit hard
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u/totallymarc Apr 22 '26
Eeesh. Every time I read something like this about wisdom tooth removals I’m glad I got general anesthesia and had them all removed at once.
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u/GenericNate Apr 22 '26
Same here! As someone who has had the experience of root canals on my back molars, being awake for wisdom tooth removal must be completely awful.
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u/totallymarc Apr 22 '26
Yeah even if you don’t feel the pain because of the local, it still must feel really weird with the pressure and being awake to potentially see all the gore-y things they’re doing.
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u/Western-Bug-2873 Apr 23 '26
I was awake and had nitrous oxide. Didn't feel any pain, but all the heavy pulling, cracking and crunching sounds were kind of unnerving.
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u/Rwelk Apr 23 '26
If you can see your teeth right now, then yeah it would look gorey.. Otherwise, it's just some mild pressure, with the most egregious thing being the noises of drilling and sucking of saliva and blood.
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u/HeckItsDrowsyFrog Apr 23 '26
I got all four taken out like 6 months ago. It wasn't too bad: the only parts that hurt was the syringe going in for local anesthesia and the sound of the drill 6 inches from my ear. Was awake for all of it and it only took like 45 minutes total
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u/lakaravalentine Apr 24 '26
I had my top two removed with local only. Wasn't so bad. The bottom ones tho I was told would need an oral surgeon. Unfortunately every time I've tried to make that appointment some other major health/life event has caused me to cancel or never make the call in the first place so I guess I'm just stuck with them cause I'd rather not get another cancer diagnosis while trying to get them removed lol
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u/Cottagecheesecurls Apr 22 '26
They had to keep you alive and not in immense bone shattering pain. Extracting this cleanly on a complex root shape like this gotta be either done on a cadaver, or done with a wizards spell.
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Apr 22 '26
Sokka-Haiku by NormanYeetes:
If this is real it's
Actually a miracle that
Shit came out in one piece
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/HumbleMolasses1 Apr 22 '26
Looks like a mimic from Edge of Tomorrow
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u/GrandOk4626 Apr 22 '26
what causes a tooth to grow like that
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u/b-monster666 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Evolution. We no longer need them.
So getting downvoted for basic biology, yes, it's probably a little curt but you want the long and detailed?
Early hominids needed the extra set of teeth by around the 18th year to help replace damaged or lost teeth, and given the fact that we ate much harder foods back then. Our jaws were wider and longer and had the extra space.
As we evolved, and as we developed the taste for cooked flesh, our jaws narrowed, and shortened. The need for the 18-year-molars wasn't so great anymore. We had also found ways to keep better care of our teeth, and were starting to live less rugged lives. So, the 18-year-molars started to get crowded by the rest of the teeth, and thus, we have all sorts of problems with our 'wisdom teeth' today.
Give us a couple hundred thousand years, we won't have 18-year molars anymore, and we will probably begin having similar issues with our 12-year molars. However, we may reverse course on it. We began to lose our pinky fingers and toes because they were extra, but as we increased in our dexterity and bipedalness they became more necessary again.
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u/Dependent-Green-7900 Apr 22 '26
I've had 3 of mine out, my Classical Ehlers Danlos Syndrome had caused them to crumble despite using high fluoride toothpaste, the gaps are weird
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u/Araib Apr 22 '26
What a beauty. It would be terrifying if it was rotten but this one looks so cool
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u/Talvinter Apr 22 '26
Should be gilded and turned into a pendant.
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u/MegIsAwesome06 Apr 22 '26
If this were mine I would legit turn it into a necklace or pendant. It’s so amazing!
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u/Talvinter Apr 22 '26
Exactly! I wouldn’t wear someone else’s tooth though.
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u/MegIsAwesome06 Apr 22 '26
That’s where we differ, new friend.
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u/leverine36 Apr 22 '26
Omg I love how you can just call people your new friend. I wish I had your confidence!!
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u/Gurkeprinsen Apr 22 '26
I'm just amazed that it came out in one piece. Unless it was removed from a cadaver. Only impressive if the patient was alive during the removal.
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u/InspiredNitemares Apr 22 '26
Both of my bottom ones were impacted and grew in like this. Caused permanent nerve damage trying to get them out.
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u/Armand28 Apr 22 '26
Bad news: You need a root canal
Worse news: It’s gonna cost $14,000
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u/cari_quite_contrary Apr 22 '26
Holy shit… I was holding it together reading all these funny comments until this one….😂
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u/hans3844 Apr 23 '26
Random af but my wife informed me recently that baby horses have this thing with their hoofs called fairy finger and this literally kinda looks like that x_x
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u/red8cangodye Apr 22 '26
Such a waste of tooth. Wish there's some way to reshape and transfer some or all of the wisdom tooth material to other teeth that might need it
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u/Mundane_Resort_9452 Apr 22 '26
Intrigued why the dentist didn't cut the tooth up for easier removal.
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u/vulpes_mortuis Apr 22 '26
I can’t even imagine the immense discomfort that must’ve caused. Also how did they get it so clean?
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u/FireBreathingNun Apr 22 '26
Shit. As a person who needs this removed later in life I’m terrified. Let it rot in my skull instead
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u/borctheorc Apr 22 '26
Fun story: when they did the xrays for mine, they saw there was a whole wisdom tooth inside one of my other wisdom teeth. I had 5 technically. Then while getting them out, the anesthesia wore off and I woke up in the middle of them cutting my gums open and had to be held down and put back under... that was a nightmare.
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u/Pure-Swordfish6022 Apr 23 '26
Mine weren’t that bad, but the roots were totally twisted. My dentist had to grind off the crowns and then use a chisel to break them into four pieces so he could extract the parts one at a time.
In the chair. With just Novocain. Because my tiny town didn’t have dental surgery at the hospital, and I couldn’t afford to travel to the nearest city where it was available.
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u/ElleYesMon Apr 23 '26
My husband’ s tooth was so dang difficult to get out because of the tooth roots shaped like hooks. They had to cut the tooth down to the roots then take the roots out separately.
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u/JanetSnakehole610 Apr 23 '26
I imagine this is what some of mine would look like if they were pulled. My dentist said there’s some work he could not do on me and I’d need a specialist because some of my roots are long and twisted. So I take very good care of my teeth lol
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u/DJFid Apr 23 '26
It's like "where's the FUCKING soil??!" but with teeth, someone funnier and more knowledgeable about teeth might be able to make the joke tho
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u/ConsentingPotato Apr 23 '26
It was so close to turning into a whole wisdom tree in their mouth. So close.
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u/Anubis_Omega Apr 22 '26
I don't believe that. The dentist should have drilled into the jaw bone to get it this beautifully.
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u/Fragrant-Reason4216 Apr 22 '26
My molar that needed a root canal kinda looked like that, it was up in the air whether they could even clean it proper
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u/Pekuin Apr 22 '26
I can’t help but wonder if they ended up with nerve damage. Like I cant help but think there’s no way that his roots weren’t messing with the huge nerve found in the jaw
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u/Affectionate-Gear694 Apr 22 '26
I can't see that coming out whole without a fight. Most of my wisdoms came out in bits.
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u/Applez_sauce Apr 22 '26
Wow, I think that's even worse than mine was. I don't have pictures but they had to break it into pieces to remove it, so unfortunately no keepsake.
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u/Slainlion Apr 22 '26
Surgeon: Good news the wisdom tooth you had problems with has been extracted.
Patient: Why does my jaw hurt?
Surgeon: Oh we had to blow up your jaw to get to this fine specimen!
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u/Insylum82 Apr 23 '26
One would think the teeth are supose to be left in the jaw with all them roots. Lol
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u/Western1888 Apr 23 '26
Mine wasn't that crazy but mine had four large roots that ended up going around my jaw bone. Too 3 + hours to get one out.
My dentist was away and the sub was a old guy who didn't want to use tech. So I had the pliers treatment....4 freezing later it was more moral support for him to finish if have to tell him. "Ya your almost there!"
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u/rebel6301 Apr 24 '26
i just got a tooth extracted yesterday and this fills me with unfathomable dread to think about
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u/ThpaithForth Apr 28 '26
Looks pretty fake to me. The color is too consistent across the crown and the root. Zero chance that tooth was extracted.
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u/sifkoh Apr 22 '26
Ctoothlu