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rsynnott • today at 1:23 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

It’s dependent on how messy the extraction is, and on the person. It can be anything from ‘tooth pops out no bother’ to ‘invasive surgical procedure involving removing bone etc’. I had two of my wisdom teeth out, was just given ibuprofen, it was fine. Some years later, I had the other two out. One was significantly messier (the reason they only took two out in the first place was that this one had risk of nerve damage and they wanted to leave it alone if possible), and I was given ibuprofen and solpadeine (paracetamol/codeine). Took the solpadeine once, decided I didn’t like the way it made me feel, and just went with ibuprofen and paracetamol; was basically fine.