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It is lidocaine, Novacaine has not been maufactured for decades, and your lower lip should regain feeling in a hour or so..BUT, and they at the Dental office should have told you (or your Mom) that the nerve that travels from your neck around your mandible (lower jaw) comes to a tip on your chin, and in it's travels, can be entangled by the roots of teeth.
Especially in impacted 17 & 32 (the 2 lower wisdom teeth) depending on how big these teeth had become, and it sounds like they were quite large if the surgical team had to fracture them to get them out of your jaw, it is a good possiblity it will be a while before you regain all sensation.
The nerve may have been bumped or was entagled by the roots.
Some people who waite until the last minute to have these teeth removed risk having this happen.
I am not saying it WILL happen, but it can, and sometimes a numb spot remains for a few weeks.
Do not use a straw, suction will loosen the blood clot that starts the healing in the sockets and covers the exposed nerve ending.
Eat soft cool foods, hot can start the bleeding up again.
Ice Cream & jello are good.
Avoid small "seedy" type foods, as they can get trapped in the sockets.
Sesame seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, granola or poppy seeds are an example of no no "seedy thing"
Popsickles are good, but again, do not suck on anything, especially cigarettes
and straws.
You do not smake anyway, right ?
Another good idea:
Place an old bathtowel double or triple on your pillow, and use an old pillow case, incase you drool in the night, it can stain a nice set of sheets
It is lidocaine, Novacaine has not been maufactured for decades, and your lower lip should regain feeling in a hour or so..BUT, and they at the Dental office should have told you (or your Mom) that the nerve that travels from your neck around your mandible (lower jaw) comes to a tip on your chin, and in it's travels, can be entangled by the roots of teeth.
Especially in impacted 17 & 32 (the 2 lower wisdom teeth) depending on how big these teeth had become, and it sounds like they were quite large if the surgical team had to fracture them to get them out of your jaw, it is a good possiblity it will be a while before you regain all sensation.
The nerve may have been bumped or was entagled by the roots.
Some people who waite until the last minute to have these teeth removed risk having this happen.
I am not saying it WILL happen, but it can, and sometimes a numb spot remains for a few weeks.
Do not use a straw, suction will loosen the blood clot that starts the healing in the sockets and covers the exposed nerve ending.
Eat soft cool foods, hot can start the bleeding up again.
Ice Cream & jello are good.
Avoid small "seedy" type foods, as they can get trapped in the sockets.
Sesame seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, granola or poppy seeds are an example of no no "seedy thing"
Popsickles are good, but again, do not suck on anything, especially cigarettes
You do not smake anyway, right ?
Another good idea:
Place an old bathtowel double or triple on your pillow, and use an old pillow case, incase you drool in the night, it can stain a nice set of sheets
