Ok so I know there are threads about wisdom tooth removal but I have a question and seeing how those were a year old I'd start a new thread.

The Kadena dental clinic, how long does it take to make a consultation apt. and oral surgery apt. for wisdom teeth removal. I have two impacted partly in the bone wisdom teeth (both top jaw) and I wanted to know if they gave us the option as to what type of sedation we would like. I would REALLY like to have general anesthesia and be completely put under. Do they give you the option or just tell you which one you are getting? I was supposed to get them out here in Germany before we PCS to Kadena but because of long waits on base for spouses, I go to a dentist off base and the German anesthesiologist needs at least 3 patients in the same day to come to the office or they won't come in seeing how it's a waste of time and money for them...I just found out that the two other people the same day as me backed out of getting the wisdom tooth removal altogether. So now if no one signs up within now and three months I'll have to get them done at Kadena.

Please someone tell me they will let me pick general anesthesia on base, even if I don't necessarily need it seeing how they are coming in straight (even though still impacted). 

you will probably have a choice between fully sedated or not, but it will also be a fairly long wait if you want to be completely under. if they're impacted, i would get it done as soon as you can. 

i know my husband was out for his at eglin, and they didn't give him options, just told him he'd be out for it. i know they do procedures under general anesthesia here, but the wait for spouses is just as long. i have heard there are good dentists off base here as well though. 

you will probably have a choice between fully sedated or not, but it will also be a fairly long wait if you want to be completely under. if they're impacted, i would get it done as soon as you can.

I had the option of being sedated or not. My tooth was impacted and it was infected. It was either deal with the pain for months and be put under or have it pulled right away without the drugs. Yeah I chose without the drugs and they had me in the following week.

Honestly, it was not the serious. They gave me a valium to help calm me down. I used my ipod to drown out the noise. I was awake the whole time.

Another time I had the whole cocktail of drugs and I still remember it. I was just loopy. So to answer your question, you are not put completely under. It is just a mixture of drugs in a IV. They dentist told me sometimes people forget and sometimes they don't.

I am not sure how long it will take you to get an appointment because when I went in it was for a sick call appointment. It was bad. My face was swollen, jaw hurt something serious (worse than labor pains), etc. 

When mine came out, they just numbed my face then told me "This is gonna suck, don't be a pu$$y Recruit!!" And they yanked those suckers out. I still have holes in my jaw 8 years later. I do not reccomend going to Navy Dental Great Lakes. 

I am going to get my wisdom teeth pulled out too. but I think i am gonna choose full sedated if they let me! I dont want to feel anything! 

First off are they hurting? If they are what your saying fully impacted then they aren't moving, there is no way for them to drop down into place. Two if they are not erupted and not moving then they are to close to your sinus cavity, and I for one would leave them there.. You don't have to have your 3rd molars extracted out, the only reason 90% of the time they do get extracted is because they are next to impossible to keep clean which in return will cause issues with the teeth decaying. 

Two they can not put you "all" the way under, you will need support of a machine to help you breath, and that is the problem. You can not have a Trac tube in the way of pulling a tooth. So what they do in IV sedation is put you in twilight sleep, you still hear everything, but are so relaxed that you cat nap. They always can do a two pill processes, you take valium the night before, get up have someone drive you to your appointment then give you halcyon. Right now there is only ONE oral surgeon on island both navy and airforce side due to others at a class of some sort. If they are not bothering just leave them there. 

i would definitely go with what DP says. she is the resident expert. 

i would definitely go with what DP says. she is the resident expert. 

Not really, just love oral surgery is all... 

SHHHH! you are an expert. you have the heels to prove it and the purse too i'm sure. 

Question...do you have to have a trach tube if you are all the way under? I swear I remember from my son's surgery (and he was definitely all the way under) that they told us that they weren't planning on placing a tube unless it became necessary. As far as I know, they didn't-or if they did, they didn't tell us they had to.

Just curious...I know pretty much nothing about surgery/anesthesia. 

He could of been put in twilight sleep, where all he would need is oxygen tube to his nose. When your put under under they iv sedate then push "sleepy" gas into your body to keep you asleep. This they will trac tube you. Since your brain can forget to tell your lungs to breath with all the gas pumping into you. Normally big operations they will put you completely under. 

He was definitely under with gas. I know they told us they'd give him some medicine first to make him a little less aware of things, and then mask him.

It was an orthopedic surgery and they removed bone and tendon and had to fix his joint, so I can't imagine they'd only have done twilight sleep.

I don't know all the details though. Frankly, I didn't ask. 

I'm not a doctor i only play one when jellybean wants to be naughty. Anyways I would say he probably was trac. Just a minor detail they normally don't say to people. Unless when you wake up with a sore raspy throat. I did surgical rotation when I was in the navy and I worked the pacu, they never trac them until they where in the OR and fully under. I know dental side of things No you will not be put completely under unless you are having major facial surgery as in breaking your jaw and having it re alined. or Clef palate surgery that kind of stuff.. So who knows. 

Can we start an "out of context quotes" thread here and start with this one? 

yes you may... 

I'm not a doctor i only play one when jellybean wants to be naughty.

lol!

I'm not trying to argue, just was honestly curious. I really don't know much about it and I don't' remember lots of details from the doc...I think I might have blocked them out. lol 

I'm not trying to argue

wasn't taking as you picking a fight, I really don't know details of different surgeries. Pretty sure there was a tube placed due to once the gas is pumped in the lack of oxygen that will get to the brain, so having the machine breath for you ensures your brain receives enough oxygen.. 90% of the time your out cold when they put the tube in and take the tube out. Just wake up with a sore throat. :c(
In his medical record there should be a note on what size and length they used.. So yeah.... who knows.. i still love you. 

Do you have the proper "equipment" for this? 

I can print one of those silly certificates off the internet that says Dr.DP 

In his medical record there should be a not on what size and length they used..

I'll have to ask. Now I'm insanely curious. lol

And I love you mucho gusto! 

I've had teeth removed before what i meant by being put completely under through general anaesthesia which is not just laughing gas you are actually out. 

as in you don't hear anything an actually are sleeping and you don't have a tube down your throat or anything. just wanted to know if they gave you the option on Kadena. 

completely under through general anaesthesia which is not just laughing gas you are actually out.

There are options between those two...like IV sedation. You aren't completely asleep, but you are very out of it. I had that when I got an endoscopy done (tube down my throat to look at my stomach) and don't remember a thing and it didn't hurt a bit. 

i was on IV sedative when i had mine pulled. don't remember ANY of it, past when they started my IV and made me count. 

I could have swore when I got both my wisdom teeth pulled out and another tooth that was right next to my wisdom tooth that I had a mixture of gas ( the red clown nose thingy and also they gave me an IV...I am with Casey..I don't recall anything after I started counting....but I did not require a breathing tube....I did not have it done here though. This was in the states before I came over here. 

they gave me O2 through a canula, i didn't get any gas. 

I fell cheated .. I had all my removed and I got nothing but the injection local crap.. do it did not hurt and the the dentist was so hot.. all worth 

Like I said, I don't remember to much. I was VERY doped up. I do think I had asked this question before and the answer was no....that Kadena will not put someone out all the way....they won't sedate unless it is necessary. I think I asked the doc this too and got the same answer. 

IV sedation is the same as Twilight sedation. Your in a cat nap. You may not hear things or feel thing but you aren't all the way under.
They only offer this kind of sedation at Lester through the oral surgeon's there. That way they are in a controlled environment just in case kind of thing.
I had my 3rd molars removed one by one, not all at once. Its not bad the only bad part is the injection in the roof of your mouth. Other then that a lot of pressure... 

I remember bits and pieces. I remember them talking. I remember thinking this is weird. However, I was pretty dang loopy. I even snapped back after the surgery fairly quickly. I was slos fairly awake when they suturing my mouth. I was capable of walking around the BX right after.

I know at Kadena they offer three choices: IV sedation, a sedative before your surgery, and nothing at all.

I have done all three.

Now being put under completely, which I have for a whole other surgery, I was out for most of the day. I think there is a huge difference in twilight and full blown anesthesia.