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andycwb:
I could have sworn a wrote a longish reply to this a few days ago but can't see it.

General anaesthetics have improved a lot in the last few years.  I had a minor reaction the first time (about 14 years ago), with my blood pressure dropping through the floor as I came around, and again when I tried to stand up an hour later - and again when I tried to leave that evening.  That was when I had one wisdom tooth out.  The second time I had a general - for something else - I was asking for something to eat within 20 minutes of coming around - that was about 5 years ago.   

The big advantage of the general is that you're not aware of the dentist slicing open your gum, yanking out bits of teeth, and stitching the gum up afterwards.  I was told mine was "not a straightforward extraction" but had no complications at all and was blissfully unaware of the complexity.

I was told to alternate doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol every three hours to keep the pain at bay and it was pretty effective for the couple of days it was needed.

Numbness or tingling in the jaw is a possible complication because there nerves to all the other teeth run along the gum there and can be damaged but it's pretty rare.  I was warned this was a possible side effect because they have to tell you. 

Within a week I was feeling fine and within 2-3 weeks the gum had more or less completely healed.

I'm not phobic about dentists at all - when I had my root canal done in the adjacent tooth (decay due to delaying the extraction of the impacted wisdom tooth - you have been warned!)  I was watching him drill into my tooth - I could see what he was doing reflected in the chromed side of the microscope. 

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