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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
I finally got feeling in all my lip. I can still talk very well, to the dismay of my family.
the pain killer has kicked in and only the bottom right spot still hurts....
l have eaten 2 chocolate puddings and warm cambells chicken soup (just swallowed the noodles, no chewing) and mom brought me a chocolate milkshake that i also ate with a spoon.
i am supposed to keep gauze in my mouth but it is not comfortable, drying, and i tend to keep biting hard down... I am not bleeding and the stitches feel secure. as long as i work hard to not bump the stiches to keep the clots good... and in 4 days it says i will need to start irrigating the spots to keep from dry sockets...
Also there is nothing on tv.... i was ticked because there was a repeat food network show and it was the same thing i saw in december when i was laying on the couch from my tonsils out....
also WSU moved my dorm room assignment again.
My grades were posted.
Entomology A
biology 107, anthropology and plant propagation all had variations of C-,C,C+
my gpa is now 2.75 which is not too bad. i am happy with the A in entom.... plant propagation wasn't as high as I wanted. I think i tanked the final from losing all my material for studying.
Its raining here now.