Wisdom teeth removal: any good places?

[NBC]

Originally Posted by Jake

Another vote for Dr. Whitestone. When I went to him several years ago he was in the tall building on South Port road by Moxies (behind the shorter building with Golf Plus).

As did I a very long time ago. He was good.

My partner is trying to get hers removed here in the UK and they are telling here that if they aren't doing anything, don't remove them.

And Brits wonder why everyone takes the p*ss out of their teeth. Terribly dentists here.

[Jim Peplinski]

Whomever you pick, make sure that they use good suction! When I had my wisdom teeth done, I puked up blood for over a day after the surgury. Good luck!

[SuperFan]

Originally Posted by ricoFlame

if you're a U of C student, and didn't opt out of the medical/dental plan, you'll be reimbursed for 50% of the cost for 2 wisdom teeth/year. If you have additional coverage, bonus, get two done this year, two next...works really well if you can get it done at the end of august, then the other two in the beginning of september...less recovery and the end of august and beginning of september are in different enrolment years, thus both are compensated by your plan.

No I have not opt out. The thing about the UofC plan is that it's terrible as it can be used only at specific dental places. Chances are those places won't touch impacted wisdom teeth.

[Sr. Mints]

Dr. Amin Datu at Bowness Dental. He's the only dentist I've every had anything good to say about. Once he's got you over the barrel--I mean in the chair, he doesn't even try to #### you up the ###.

But he doesn't extract. I had one of my wisdoms pulled by him about a month ago after putting it off forever, and was told by my previous dentist that t had to be extracted by a surgeon. ~$180 vs a couple of thousands...

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by SuperFan

Chances are those places won't touch impacted wisdom teeth.

I would doubt that, I know when I was at SAIT they used a preffered list but there were a some good places on there. The place I went to was downtown, in the tower south of Banker's Hall. Can't remember the name but they were pretty good. I wouldn't recommend having all 4 done at once if they're impacted. I couldn't eat solid foods for a week. If I were to do it all again I'd go 2 and 2, just so I can always chew with one side.