h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A612668

I would like to recommend this article for peer review, simply because I know that it is the sort of thing I would have found useful to read, before having my tooth removed!

Maybe it should be called Wisdom Tooth Extraction or Removal though.

There should definitely be a guide entry on the topic you have chosen, but as it stands, what you have written will not be accepted. You do have a good start, though. Try reworking it into an informative third person article rather than a narrative of a personal experience. Get others to contribute their wisdom teeth experiences and include quotes (including your own) to illustrate different points in the article, the way collaborative entries are done.
When I had my wisdom teeth taken out. They gave me two valium tablets to take beforehand, codeine to take afterwards, and god knows what else during. My body is sensitive to drugs and the combination of the above cradled me into a state of consciousness never before (or after) experienced by yours truly. Within minutes of taking the Valium, I could barely stand, and was reduced to a mumbling heap on the floor. My mother had to help me into the car, as my head kept lolling back and forth. I don't remember much after that. They gave me total anesthesia, something injected plus something inhaled. I remember I kept looking at the EKG monitor to make sure my heart was still beating. They calmed me with soothing words and filled me with some more stuporific drugs. Afterwards, as I slowly came to, I said lots of silly things, or so they told me. I became an eloquent loony, popping Codein pills. My family looked at me funny for days.

I think if you were to re-title the article along the lines of 'A Researcher's Personal Experience on Wisdom Tooth Removal' it would make more sense as a guide entry, as you are not really writing about 'Wisdom Teeth'per se, but giving an account of you own,personal experiences.

I don't know...it's late at night...I enjoyed reading your piece (poor you )but I now fear I am loosing my coherence in 3... no ...2, no,... 1 seconds... as am very

GGG

One problem. Your article is written in the 1st person. Occassionaly the 'powers that be' accept these but more often than not they don't. (Check the guidelines on the Peer Review page) Perhaps you would like to try writing a version in the 3rd person.

Write it as though you are the reporter, not the subject.

This is not to say your article will not be accepted in it's present form. That may well happen. We will have to wait and see what other researchers have to say in Peer Review.

Ouch!
This brought it all back! I have had 2 removed. The last was impacted, then some of it broke off. I had a temporary filling for a few months and then I had to go to the hospital to have the rest removed.

Because I was driving myself home alone straight after (not a good idea) I needed to have a local anaesthetic, but they recommended the general. I was told: "Don't think of this as a tooth extraction, think of it as an operation on your jaw" which is very sound advice.

A week later I was still off work and feeling dreadful. I still had bruising too. This is far far more than a simple extraction.

As was said before,
There's a lot to work on, and there's this Must of moving to 3rd person.

Personally, I didn't have (thank you god) any problem with my WT, they just grew someday, and it didn't even hurt .

I think you might get a lot more material from other people if you post an AskH2G2 thread on the subject
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/AskH2G2

Peace,

Dancer

This is an interesting topic, and some personal experience *is* useful. How about a compromise? Have two sections in the entry: start with a neutral/third person style description of *what* they are and *why* they may need to get removed (because the dry facts need to be covered too), and make the other section something like

Headline 'A personal experience'
"A researcher has put hir experience in the following words: ..."

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Peer Review' to ' Wisdom Tooth Removal - A Personal Perspective'.

This thread has been moved out of the Peer Review Forum because your entry has now been recommended for the Edited Guide.

You can find out what will happen to your entry here: http://www.h2g2.com/SubEditors-Process

Congratulations!

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Dancer

Thank you very much
I am very surprised, I never thought this would get in!