I had all four taken out at once. I was given a drug that I was awake-ish during some shots to numb me (I don’t remember it, they gave me forget drugs) and then I’m not even sure during the procedure what happened and exactly how out I was. I woke up not in terrible pain, andnI still was druggy. The pain got worse over a short amount of time that first day as the drugs wore off. The first 24 hours suck, but not outrageous. I was swollen and uncomfortable for about 4 days. I never took any of the prescrption pain killers, ibuprofen helped a lot and it was all tolerable.
My niece just had all four done by her dentist and he screwed it up. Thank goodness you are going to an oral surgeon. When you hear bad stories ask if a dentist did the surgery. If a dentist did it then ignore that bad story altogether in my opinion.
I think I was 14 or 15 when I had it done.
@jca Yours were below the gum line? Or, the teeth were out already and you had them taken out?