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Old 19th October 2008 | 17:32
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KitKat747
 
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Wisdom tooth extraction

I had a wisdom tooth extracted a month ago and was perfectly ok the following day. I flew home 48 hours after the extraction as a pax and felt absolutely nothing.

I am married to a medic who tells me that the brain often gets confused with the precise area that pain is coming from generally.

This is especially the case with pain from tooth extraction or tooth ache. The pain you feel in your ear may well be coming from the cavity where your tooth was. After 2 weeks you should have healed well enough to fly, I would go back to your dentist because an infection could have occured that is causing the pain you feel when flying.

I have now lost 3 wisdom teeth and not really had any problems apart from on one occasion when a small piece of the extracted tooth was left in the socket; I flew 48 hours later (as crew) and could feel pain, I went back to the dentist who pulled the tiny slither of tooth out and I was ok from then on.
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