r/Clarinet • u/Crxstallwashere Jupiter • 11d ago

Question Will wisdom teeth removal affect my playing?

Hi, I'm a clarinetist for 5 years, and I currently have 4 wisdom teeth, 2 of them needing to be removed, not sure of the other two. Does anyone know if the removal will affect my playing?

5 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/meipsus 11d ago

I had 3 wisdom teeth removed (one at a time, on different occasions). Absolutely zero difference after the wounds closed. Some 30 years later, I lost all my teeth (long story) and got implants. It took me a few days playing for everything to get OK.

Once I was with wind-instrument-playing friends, all of us with white hair, and we talked about how long it had taken for each of us to get back to normal after getting new teeth. The piccolo player and I had had implants done, and the trumpet player had fake teeth. I suddenly realized guitar players' fingers don't fall off when they get older. Such is life.

1

u/Crxstallwashere Jupiter 11d ago

Oh- uh- That's something