Supernumerary tooth extraction

After being identified as having a mesiodens inside my gums, I underwent a minor operation last Monday, March 17, 2008. It was scary, of course. It’s my first time to have an operation that I am conscious with my mouth wide open. My hands and feet were really cold.

So the operation had begun. I’m thankful with my dentist and the oral surgeon who really took care of me. They put around four shots of anesthesia in my mouth and I didn’t feel any pain at all. Since I am awake, I can’t stop my mind imagining what they were doing with my mouth. They peel off some portion of my gums, and then locate the mesiodens. Unfortunately, the suppose to be mesiodens turn out to be not a simple mesiodens case because its sizes is bigger and has its own root, thus they called it as supernumerary tooth. It was a tooth but an excess to the ordinary numbers of a set of teeth. The operation was about two hours because they had to do lots of drilling due to the complicated roots of my teeth. In the end of the operation, they had to close my gums again through stitching. It was really tiring. And since I’ve been pumped up with anesthesia, all I ever wanted was to sleep.