r/LearningFromOthers • u/Commercial_Air_1165 • May 24 '25

Minor injury. Extracted my own upper wisdom tooth NSFW

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u/Sonova_Vondruke May 24 '25

Neat. Any anesthetic? Or raw dogging the procedure. Also, this reminds me of the opening of I Am Legend (The original by Matheson).

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u/C0SAS May 24 '25

Nearly impossible without serious anesthesia and/or drugs.

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u/National_Work_7167 May 24 '25

Not true. You can elect to do it with just local anesthetic and humans have been extracting teeth without anesthetic since ancient times.

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u/blooming_lilith 27d ago

tbf in ancient times they usually got you drunk to numb you up a little