It depends. If they popped right out and the dental surgeon did them with you "awake" you can expect some pain, swelling and jaw soreness. If you are like me and the dental surgeon took one look at the x-rays and said "there's no way I'm doing this unless you are under general anesthetic" and then took over 2 hours in the OR removing them (he had to cut two into 3 different sections to get them out) you can expect more pain.
Seriously it will hurt but usually over the counter drugs will keep you in decent comfort. It will hurt like hell when the freezing starts to come out though.
After that take it easy. Eat soup and, as much as you can, exercise your jaw or you may find those burgers you used to be able to get your mouth around are too big to eat a year from now. There is also a possibility that depending on how much they had to wrench your jaw open you may get some "clicking" in the jaw from here on in or occassional shooting pains in your jaw that locks it up for a few minutes to an hour. I have the last two side-effects of the surgery though I only get the pains a few times a year and they frequency and intensity seems to be decreasing as time goes on (when I got them out 10 years ago it happened nearly every couple of weeks now it's rare). But I'm sure the dental surgeon gave you a sheet of all those side effects before doing the surgery
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