Whoa, were those scissors...?! In the dude's eye...?! What happened to frickin' laser beams?!

Do they put you out while they're doing stuff in your eye? I wouldn't be able to stay still unless I was drugged and restrained...

Yeah, but I would be busy processing every fraction of a second, freaking out that people are doing things to my eyes. I'd probably have to fight the urge to just roll quickly away from the surgeons and get the Hell out of there.

On Tuesday I have an appointment to see somebody (I'm not sure what you call them) about getting my wisdom teeth (4) removed (I believe surgically). I really don't know how yet...

IIRC they have to remove the lense before using the laser, as to not damage it, and/or to replace it iirc.

Well it cant be that bad, you are sedated (locally) and I saw how an expert removes a tooth in less than 30 seconds (they were front tooth though), I reckon wisdom teeth are buried in more deep.

Look on the bright side, maybe the surgeon removing your teeth will be a hot sexy female.

I had to go to an oral surgeon for my wisdom teeth. Knocked me right out due to a small complication ^[1].

Thats why it's called Surgery. They will literally dig them out. Its better than them traveling along the gums and kicking out all your teeth, or growing out sideways.

Mine came straight up, but there wasn't enough room, so they got impacted.

My LASIK was 100% laser. No blades. Eye surgery is nothing compared to getting wisdom teeth dug out. I've never watched any LASIK videos, nor will I ever. I don't want to know what they are doing.

I had two 100% full bony impacted teeth "pulled", and was the worst month of my life. The pain was completely unbearable before it was pulled, and after the surgery it was still horrible for a while.

And no, I wouldn't watch anybody get his wisdom teeth pulled either.

So you can ask to be fully knocked out? Yes, give me one of those (I'll probably be willing to pay whatever it costs, within reason).

Laughing gas doesn't knock you out, it just takes the edge off.

When I got my two wisdom teeth out, it was a breeze. Of course, they weren't impacted or anything, they were half way poked out, but my mouth is just shallow enough that they didn't have room to fully break through the gum (and as a result, were beginning to rot where they were under the gum way in the back). But yeah, took longer to get the Novocaine shots and wait for them to take effect than it did for extraction. The dentist went in, latched on, I heard a couple crunches and tasted blood. While I was tasting the blood, still trying to decide if it was indeed blood or not, I heard another crunch, and the tooth on the other side was out (they only took out the two on top, my lower ones are still in). Took all of about 35 seconds total for both teeth. He was even able to stitch me up to make dry socket less likely. All in all, 10 minutes after walking in, I walked out. Had to bite down on the gauze for my half hour drive home and an additional 30-40 minutes at home until the bleeding stopped. That night I was eating almost normally, just cautiously. Within two days, I felt totally fine, was eating normally, etc.

Of course, sorry to say, yours are going to be hell, given that they have to be surgically removed.

I was really disappointed that they were going to put me under for lacroscopic knee surgery I had when I was a teenager. I wanted to be able to watch the camera moving around. But they needed to dislocate the knee joint, and apparently, it's nearly impossible to do when the patient is still concious.

Ditto.

I saved mine up for our next binge drinking session.

My linking to lasek was just the first one I found as I was in a hurry and it looks the quickest of the ones I found. I know the latest ones now don't even need to use those crude micro cutting rings either, they kind of produce a bubble in the eye to take the cover away a bit better.

As for the long term study, I can well imagine most are funded by the firms doing the treatment. Perhaps google lasik failure stories as well

Saying that, if I had the bottle I'd do it as I can easily trust all will be well, but I'm a bit soft really.

I had my wisdom teeth "extracted" (gums cut open and teeth drilled to little pieces) while fully awake. I wanted to make sure that crazy surgeon didn't take more than he was supposed to.

It was incredibly disturbing.

So they don't remember how they died? How thoughtful.