wisdom teeth extraction - how long off the bike?

[DirtDiva]

I reckon what Sherry/Sherry's flatmate says is bang on.

When I had mine out (all four at once, no complications) I was, unsurprisingly, pretty woozy the day of, then fine for the next four days because I got prescribed great anti-inflamatories (Valdecoxib/Bextra, which was withdrawn from the market the following month due to the whole questionable saftey of long-term Cox-2 inhibitor use thing). The day after the good drugs ran out was awful. Codiene wasn't helping. Marginally better the following day, as I'd had my stitches out and gone and bought some over-the-counter anti-inflamatories. I was down to ordinary panadol (tylenol) after about eight days. Probably took about ten or twelve days before I was completely pain free, which is just as well - I flew direct from NZ to the UK eleven days after surgery. Probably about four weeks for the holes left behind in my lower jaw to heal up enough for me to put my paranoia about them getting infected behind me.