Personal Narrative Essay: My Experience With Oral Surgery

This summer was probably one of the most agonizing ones ever. Around the beginning of August, I had to have oral surgery. Why, you might ask. Well it’s because my two canine teeth decided to not come down. They were still in my gums and just wouldn’t come through. This was a big problem, the orthodontist told me that if I didn’t get the surgery, I would eventually have to get a root canal for these teeth because the roots of the teeth would build up in my gums. I didn’t have much of an option, I had to get the surgery, so of course, I ended up getting it done. The day I was going to get my surgery went by so slowly. I was extremely nervous, and when I walked into the waiting room I could hear my heart beating in my chest. My mom signed me …show more content…
After I was hooked up to all of the machines they gave me some laughing gas. Laughing gas is when you are awake for the surgery but you aren’t fully aware of what is going on around you. At first it wasn’t working but then it kicked in about five minutes later. Then they started smearing this numbing paste all over my mouth, it was very gross. I could feel my mouth start to tingle and slowly get warmer as it started to numb. The paste didn’t take as long as the laughing gas, within seconds I could feel my tongue start to tingle then go numb, then following that my upper gums did the same. The doctors said the operation would take around forty-five minutes. They also told me that every five minutes the band around my arm would blow up and take my blood pressure. I.t was really weird being put under the laughing gas, it was like watching the world through a television screen. Every so often I would lose focus on something so weird and random then all of a sudden would snap back into the real world it was really weird. The doctor’s also asked me questions during the surgery.“Have you ever been to Florida?”, they asked.
“Uh-huh”, I replied.Then they