Molar teeth extraction!!

You DO NOT get the yellow fever vaccine before reporting to KP. You will recieve thatg and other vaccinations at Patton before you sail. And yes, you will need tol get your wisdom teeth out at least four weeks before indoc.
Yup. Got a ton of vaccines before Sea Year. Still use my old shot card to this day. I don't recall getting yellow fever vaccine before Sea Year, as it is geographically specific. I have had it now, since work can take me to west Africa from time to time.
 
You DO NOT get the yellow fever vaccine before reporting to KP. You will recieve thatg and other vaccinations at Patton before you sail. And yes, you will need tol get your wisdom teeth out at least four weeks before indoc.
Son's oral surgeon completed a form and son emailed to USMMA dental because his upper ones were too close to sinuses. USMMA accepted the surgeon's recommendation for not extracting. No bottom ones existed which obviously was on the form, also.
 
I often wonder what brought the extraction of wisdom teeth to be a requirement for Sea Year. It wasn't during my tenure, and during my time at sea, both during school and after, I don't ever recall impacted wisdom teeth having any impact on vessel operations. . . .
 
I often wonder what brought the extraction of wisdom teeth to be a requirement for Sea Year. It wasn't during my tenure, and during my time at sea, both during school and after, I don't ever recall impacted wisdom teeth having any impact on vessel operations. . . .
I know the Navy is always eager to yank them out first chance. I’d imagine it has to do with DoD dental deployability criteria, but why they added it I have no clue. The only information put out by the DoD just states “prevention of problems in the future”. I was able to get some pretty extensive dental work done on a ship to include a nice lil gold crown after breaking a molar in half on Guam.
 
My son had his appointment with oral surgeon on May 19 and got only one side done. Unfortunately for us it a policy, and we have to wait 2 weeks to do another side, which leaves us only 5 weeks before INDOC. His wisdom teeth are still inside but the way they are positioned is not in the favor for DS and they are definitely need to be out. Do we wait or take a risk? He is healing good and is abled to eat normal food since his extraction. DS also called dental in USMMA and was told it’s my son’s doctors decision. How can we possibly postpone? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
 
My son had his appointment with oral surgeon on May 19 and got only one side done. Unfortunately for us it a policy, and we have to wait 2 weeks to do another side, which leaves us only 5 weeks before INDOC. His wisdom teeth are still inside but the way they are positioned is not in the favor for DS and they are definitely need to be out. Do we wait or take a risk? He is healing good and is abled to eat normal food since his extraction. DS also called dental in USMMA and was told it’s my son’s doctors decision. How can we possibly postpone? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Your call of course, but since the “full” recovery time is about two weeks, I’d move forward and get it done. There used to be dental services on campus should some unusual thing arise that could be an issue.
 
My son had his appointment with oral surgeon on May 19 and got only one side done. Unfortunately for us it a policy, and we have to wait 2 weeks to do another side, which leaves us only 5 weeks before INDOC. His wisdom teeth are still inside but the way they are positioned is not in the favor for DS and they are definitely need to be out. Do we wait or take a risk? He is healing good and is abled to eat normal food since his extraction. DS also called dental in USMMA and was told it’s my son’s doctors decision. How can we possibly postpone? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I still say to do it. But it is your call. That is the strangest thing I have ever heard that the Oral Surgeon only wanted to do one side at a time.
 
I still say to do it. But it is your call. That is the strangest thing I have ever heard that the Oral Surgeon only wanted to do one side at a time.
Some months before I went to Navy OCS, I had a regular check-up with my childhood dentist, a former military dentist. I told him what my plans were, and he immediately did another review of my wisdom teeth, noting the Navy would probably take them out, as he would himself in the next 2 years, and he offered to do them now. The Navy would do them when it was convenient for them, and all 4 at a time, He did one side, then the other, though he could have done all 4, because he said it was much more comfortable, and I could eat better using the untouched side. Spaced 2 weeks apart, as I recall. I suspect today’s insurance plans don’t typically approve 2 surgeries for routine extractions.

Oddly, another wisdom tooth grew in about 8 years later. Navy dentist took it out. Who knew about other teeth hanging out waiting to appear?!
 
Some months before I went to Navy OCS, I had a regular check-up with my childhood dentist, a former military dentist. I told him what my plans were, and he immediately did another review of my wisdom teeth, noting the Navy would probably take them out, as he would himself in the next 2 years, and he offered to do them now. The Navy would do them when it was convenient for them, and all 4 at a time, He did one side, then the other, though he could have done all 4, because he said it was much more comfortable, and I could eat better using the untouched side. Spaced 2 weeks apart, as I recall. I suspect today’s insurance plans don’t typically approve 2 surgeries for routine extractions.

Oddly, another wisdom tooth grew in about 8 years later. Navy dentist took it out. Who knew about other teeth hanging out waiting to appear?!
That was a general dentist who doesn’t do it every day. That procedure always is longer with a general dentist, not saying a general dentist can not do it.

My father in law was an Oral Surgeon in the army and had to bail out many general dentist that would run into problems with wisdom teeth. My husband is a general dentist and he always refers them out because he doesn’t do it day in and day out. He wants it to go as fast and comfortable for his patients.

Not saying it is bad to do one side and then the other, but patients have be under anesthesia twice and I would want to avoid doing that more times than is needed.

That is funny they never saw your extra tooth in x-rays.😀
 
That was a general dentist who doesn’t do it every day. That procedure always is longer with a general dentist, not saying a general dentist can not do it.

My father in law was an Oral Surgeon in the army and had to bail out many general dentist that would run into problems with wisdom teeth. My husband is a general dentist and he always refers them out because he doesn’t do it day in and day out. He wants it to go as fast and comfortable for his patients.

Not saying it is bad to do one side and then the other, but patients have be under anesthesia twice and I would want to avoid doing that more times than is needed.

That is funny they never saw your extra tooth in x-rays.😀
No anaesthesia except local numbing. I think mine were a very easy extraction. And the late-arriving tooth popped through 15 years later! I wasn’t any wiser…
 
No anaesthesia except local numbing. I think mine were a very easy extraction. And the late-arriving tooth popped through 15 years later! I wasn’t any wiser…
During my sea year, I needed a wisdom tooth extracted and they sent me to a dentist in Charleston SC. I was injected with some form of anesthesia, the dentist put the needle down on a tray, and with the same motion picked up the pliers and started pulling. No time for the injection to take effect; on top of that he got my lip caught between some teeth and his pliers. Once the tooth was extracted, he told the dental assistant to pack the cavity, he was going to lunch and would be back in a 1/2 hour. I think the dentist knew I was a "northerner" (Ohio) and he was still fighting the civil war!
 
During my sea year, I needed a wisdom tooth extracted and they sent me to a dentist in Charleston SC. I was injected with some form of anesthesia, the dentist put the needle down on a tray, and with the same motion picked up the pliers and started pulling. No time for the injection to take effect; on top of that he got my lip caught between some teeth and his pliers. Once the tooth was extracted, he told the dental assistant to pack the cavity, he was going to lunch and would be back in a 1/2 hour. I think the dentist knew I was a "northerner" (Ohio) and he was still fighting the civil war!
Omg 😳. I am so sorry you had terrible experience. That’s why it’s better to do it at home with mama😂.
 
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