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Carl-E:
I was conscious for all my wisdom teeth (and all other pulled teeth since  :-(), just a local.  The only other surgery I had was to get my jaw put back together in 1986 after a particularly horrendous bicycle accident. 

I was completely out for that one. 

nekowafer:
I believe my ex had his wisdom teeth out, and was given a choice to be put under or not. He chose not to do it, because it cost a lot of money. So I'm assuming the doctor would use less intense anesthesia in general for that, because it is a dangerous type of drug, and you don't need to be completely knocked out for that procedure.

I've never had any serious dental work done, though, so I don't know for sure. I was given some Valium for my first set of fillings, though, because I was so scared.

My first surgery was a tonsillectomy at age 25. I was out for maybe an hour, tops. That surgery sucked so bad. I couldn't eat or talk properly for at least three weeks.

Second surgery was on my lady parts, last year. I was out for a couple hours and the whole thing went very well. Easy to wake up, very little pain, and I was basically back to normal in a couple days.

Redball:
My wisdom teeth came out in pairs in the mid-50s at U of Michigan dental school, entirely with local anesthetic, lots of it, and a recollection of hammer on chisel. Total cost was about $10. And this memory: Instructor, behind the student doing the extractions, "No, no! Never do it that way!"

pwhodges:
I have never remembered anything from a general anaesthetic (two appendix operations; hernia; orchidectomy for cancer).  Obviously, local anaesthetics (vasectomy; angioplasty and stent following heart attack) I do remember.

Possibly my first memory is of lying with my head on a rubber sheet in hospital having a cut on my head stitched after I had fallen out of a moving car when a door fell open on a corner; but whether I had been knocked out or anaesthetised, and whether the memory is from the time the stitches were being done or before or after I cannot say.

BeoPuppy:

--- Quote from: Redball on 12 Oct 2012, 04:49 ---[...] hammer on chisel [...]

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Then I have had some old school surgery done some 10 years ago because my dentist used an old screwdriver to push the tooth loose. The mechanics' approach to wisdom teeth extraction.

On topic, none of the two surgeries i have undergone has left a memory. When I'm out, I'm out.

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