Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

I'd choose unconcious. Pain sucks.

Also, don't freak if the cotton they give you gets bloody - As long as the blood doesn't soak in, it's ok.

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

Sounds good... the only argument for conciousness I can think of is not missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but this is something to be missed, eh?

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

Unless you want to scientifically investigate the removal of teeth from a mouth from a personal perspective, yes.

(First, they numb your gum. Then, the dentist pushes the gum back from the teeth. After that, the tooth is wiggled back and forth to loosen it and pulled on. All of this takes longer to happen than to tell, and *Hurts*. Then, they sew your gums together using a curved needle on the end of a handle. This also hurts. After that, you get cotton balls to soak up the blood. Pushing them against the gum also hurts, especially when you aren't aware that you needn't continue pushing if, after about an hour, the tissue has only blood on the surface.)

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

I had the removal of a tooth before it came out of the gum. Owie. They cut open my gum, and then used a drill to chop the tooth up into tiny pieces, which they then took out. After extracting the broken pieces of my teeth, they took this biodegradable thread, and stitched up my gum, which then swelled up to the size of a baseball. Funny thing was, what with the general anethesia and the big freaking needles worth of painkiller, it still hurt... Good thing I was too spaced out to care.

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

All right, that's plenty for me... unconciousness it is, and I think I need to go be sick somewhere...

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

You're not really unconscious. You just get a weird buzzing feeling in your head, and everything feels happy.

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

Depends on what the doctor uses, I guess. I remember absolutely nothing between lying on the operating table with a needle hooked up to a small plastic tube stuck in my arm and then stumbling out to the car (with help, of course) while only half-awake at most. My mouth was almost completely numb and only marginally responsive for at least several hours afterwards - I had to spit out water I used to rinse with by tilting my head forwards and letting gravity do it for me.

Anyway, I can't think of any reason at all to not go the full knock-out route unless you're really that incredibly curious about it. Any normal activity involving your mouth will be nearly impossible for quite a while afterwards, and the pain is going to last longer than the painkiller and make you want to just lie there with some ice packs against your cheeks for a few hours. Recovering from a general anesthetic during that time will not be a significant extra handicap, and will probably help dull the pain for longer than any local painkiller could.

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

Your a pile of dust at the moment. You can't bite.

Not actually intended as a cookie jar type joke, though....

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

It'll probably render me unable to play D&D... I'll most likely just sit by and watch, maybe make sardonic comments from time to time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: OT: Narf has gone looney and wants to GM.
 

It'll almost be like having Alneyan back! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif