My tooth literally exploded

So, I've been having my wisdom teeth come in the past few months. After a lot of cancelled appointments, I finally had one set for the start of next month. They'd be removing 4 teeth (back molars), and then I'd go back in a few weeks to have another 4 (wisdom teeth) removed. So, in total, a removal of 8 teeth. Now, when you have eight teeth too many in your mouth, it kinda gets cramped. I've been having chronic headaches related to it--I just take an aspirin and wait out the pain, but it's been nothing debilitating. I also was removed from my mom's work's medical insurance, because it was getting too expensive for full coverage. Which, according to the dentist, was a bad move, because only having dental insurance won't cover everything. So, I had to further put off any appointments until that was settled and everything could be paid for by insurance.

Until today.

My tooth shattered as I was laying down.

It. Hurt. A. Lot.

There was so much pressure in my head from the wisdom teeth trying to force their way through, that my (according to google) a Premolar tooth was taking the brunt, and apparently couldn't hack it one more second longer. Cuz as I was on my bed, my head hurt something awful, and then I heard a pop and the pain instantly went away for about 10 seconds before getting even worse. The tooth had just exploded in my mouth. I was stunned for a few seconds before sputtering about and spitting out the remains of my tooth.

More than half the tooth is just straight gone. I dunno what they even do for that, but my parents are getting an emergency appointment with a dentist this week, supposedly. I dunno what even the heck. I'm still a bit dazed and tearing up from the shock and pain, but I needed to just...vent, because oh my gosh my tooth seriously just freaking shattered.
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That sounds like it really hurts :(
 
Take some aspirin, make sure you swish salt water around in your mouth. Don't want any infections while you're waiting for the dentist - then you'll really be in pain.
 
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It hurts like crap. I have a high tolerance to pain, so the general day to day pain/pressure was fine, but this is unreal.
 
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Ouch

My lil bro had 4 wisdom teeth and 2 supernumerary teeth removed a few months ago, hope you get better soon
 
That is fucking awful, I get sick to my stomach sometimes when i just accidentally grind my teeth cause teeth are fucking scary..
 
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Oof. I'd probably be freaking out if that were me.

I hate how teeth seem so fragile, yet are constantly put at the forefront and are pretty much irreplaceable without bifocals.
 
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Something similia*r happened to me a couple of years ago (2 weeks and half before my holiday in japan, of all things) - my 22 split almost cleanly in half along the width, while I was eating some (regular) chips!
Luckily I got a quick fix* for free (pro bono) the next day, and a proper* fix in September...

* may or may not have been implied in the significant infection in the same area I had to deal with a couple of months ago
 
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Ouch ouch ouch.
That reminds me a story from back in December.

I had a sensitive wisdom tooth in the back top left of my mouth. It was becoming really bothersome for the previous 2 weeks, until I was eating dinner at my aunt's.

I felt a "crunch" that immediately put the pain away, but then I had crumbles of that tooth in my mouth.

No further care was given to it, so now I have a broken tooth that doesn't bother anymore, though I know very well there's a very big risk to get a cavity in this one, and potentially more pain.
 
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Rest in peace tooth. At least it wasn't in a public place, or while you were casually speaking. Pretty sure it's not exactly polite to let your teeth explode into other people's faces lol
 
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I'm surprised that mine hasn't shattered yet considering I haven't had any wisdom teeth removed.
 
I once had an abscess due to a wisdom tooth. The hell I had to deal with for a weekend made me wanna jump off a bridge to end it all. I ended up getting super strong pain killers from the dentist, I remember being at the pharmacist, being told to wait 20 mins. I paced back and forth the entire 20 mins, took the meds right there, and..... IT DID NOTHING. I also got meds to take the infection away, that helped a lot, and the pain went away 24 hours later.

Tooth aches don't fuck around. :(
 
Wow!
At least it did not cause any severe bleeding right?
Thats so horrible you must have gone alot through this month
Hope you feel better
 
Can we classify shattered and explosion as the same thing? I was expecting more of a BOOM or POP, sounded like it just crumbled or even disintegrated.

It sound like it was painful and i hope you are okay. Mouths feel like the most sensitive part of the body. Just a ulcer hurts, i hate having to eat with mouth problems. :cry:
 
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