How long does it usually take to heal after having two wisdom teeth extracted?

I went home on a Friday and was back at work on Monday, at the oral surgeon’s office as an out patient. They will usually take the two wisdom teeth on the same side at one time. They took my right side wisdom teeth first and then four months later the left side.

@Tropical_Willie Really? The oral surgeons where I live are fanatic about taking them out all at once. The first oral surgeon I went to said I needed all of them taken out. Turns out my upper wisdom teeth already came out without a problem. The bottom ones are slightly awkward, and like I said, they hurt when bitten down on. But I’ve always been told that they would take them out all once and would prefer if I do that rather than one at a time.

I had all four taken out at the same time, this was a long time ago. It took me about three full days after the day they were extracted for me to be back to normal, no swelling, no pain.

i’m the same as @zenvelo, all four, out for three days. The difference though is that for those 3 days my face was swollen like a chipmunk lol. I stayed on the pain meds the doc gave me because I was too scared of what would happen if I didn’t. You’ll be alright as long as you don’t get dry socket. I didn’t have it, but it’s when the blood clot in the whole they leave either doesn’t form or comes out (eww). That I hear is the worst pain…

I had all four taken out about 3 months ago. I had an odd case – I didn’t bleed at all. I didn’t even go home with gauze in my mouth! My face was numb for about 2 hours and I was in pain (thank goodness for Vicodin!) for about 12 hours. After that, I was peachy keen and back to normal life. Unless you consider how I looked – my jaw was swollen for about 5 days and pretty obviously bruised for about a week or two. I’m not sure how typical my recovery time was, but I hope you have as easy a time of it as I did!

My one word of advice as to scheduling the surgery, since you have a bit of wiggle room: Make sure you’re not going to be home alone after the surgery, at least for a day or two. You’ll be on a liquid diet, most likely have gauze in your mouth, and the last thing you’ll want to do is move, much less cook, clean, take care of anyone or anything besides yourself, answer the door or the phone. I sat through an hour of stupid kid’s programs on TPT because I didn’t want to get up and get the TV remote. If you live alone, buy gallons of applesauce, yogurt, and tea (used black tea bags are good to bite down on, which will help the clotting process so you stop bleeding) the day before and have EVERYTHING you could possibly want on the couch. Make the only time you’ll have to get up be to go to the bathroom.

< is a dentist. Booze- about a week or less. It takes 9 months to a year for the sockets to fill in and completely heal. You will feel totally normal within a week, depending on: How fully erupted the teeth are, the amount of surgery required to remove them, the configuration of the roots. Ask the surgeon, they can tell from the x-rays how likely difficult the extractions will be and thus how your recovery might be. The most important thing: Do not smoke or drink from a straw the first few days after it. Good luck you’ll be fine party on.

Few days on mash diet, week or so before you will not notice the difference.

@ScottyMcGeester My wisdom teeth were fully erupted and had to be extracted because of hard enamel and soft tooth under that, they were cracking and had cavities.

Both my boys had all four out at once and it took about 4–6 days for them to feel normal. Percocet helped with the pain but made them a bit woozy.

I think I went to class after having mine out, Don’t remember much about the lecture though. My faithful Girl Friday was there to with me though. It took a couple of days for the swelling to go down, and a couple more after the stitches came out till I felt it was all good.

Ideally, you’d have the procedure on a Friday afternoon. All the pain and swelling would likely be gone by Monday.

Of course, an oral surgeon can’t see all of his/her patients at 3:00 pm on Friday, so you may need to pick another day. You might be able to return to work the next morning, possibly looking a bit like a chipmunk.

Are you having local anesthesia or “twilight sleep”? Recovery is faster if you opt for local anesthesia and don’t do the dizzy/woozy thing.

@trailsillustrated If they are somewhat already out, what does that mean for the extraction? Will it be more painful or easier? They aren’t completely out but the surface is just barely poking out.

@ScottyMcGeester it completely depends on their position, if they are rotated in anyway in the socket, and what the roots are like. Wisdom teeth can have pointed, fused roots and then they just pop out. If the tooth is sideways or something like that it may have to be split to get it out. Also they can have wicked knarly twirly roots and then that is a surgical extraction. They can tell from the xrays how difficult it will likely be. In any case, an oral surgeon can do it really quickly with a minimum of pain.

PS @ScottyMcGeester I meant to tell you this but forgot: If you are a youngish man, and I think you are, do it sooner than later. The reasons for this are that, teeth form from the crown down, that means the roots in wisdom teeth form after the crown of the tooth, so to speak. A young person will have softer roots and bone. Also, men have denser bone and all these things account for you recovery. Godspeed, party on.

It depends on the discipline of keeping ice packs on the cheek.

When I removed the two on my left, my cheek swelled for a week. Was very painful. Then the last two…I healed after two days. My advice to anyone is to take antibiotics two days before the surgery.