I'm typing with stitches still in my jaw after a surgery to remove a wisdom tooth.

I feel the same about dentists, I've never found a dentist where I said this is the one. They all seem to wing it as they go. Story short, I went for orthodontic treatment to a dentist that I thought had an orthodontia specialty as well, she said nothing and suggested a few works and a couple fillings before the orthodontic treatment, I said fine why not. But among which, removal of 2 remaining wisdom teeth to "create space" even though I haven't found on the internet any scientific evidence saying wisdom teeth contribute to a crowded mouth.

Anyway, she removed an upper one (with difficulty), then 2 weeks later removed a lower one with only a panoramic xray that doesn't show much about the roots and the alveolar nerve's position in relation to the root. As soon as she started pulling it, the crown snapped right off and left the roots in there almost level with the gum line. She did another xray of the remaining roots and ONLY THEN she realized the alveolar nerve is so close to the root it's almost touching it. At that point I felt she freaked out for how close she was to cause loss of sensation in half my jaw. She said it's fine, the "the roots won't interfere with your orthodontic treatment" so I recommend you just leave the roots there. And I was like, but you're contradicting yourself, if they wouldn't interfere then recommend I remove it !?

Anyway, I got off the table and headed straight to another doctor who specializes in maxillary surgery and orthodontia, he took one look and asked "Did she use a cone beam x-ray before trying to extract it?", I said no, and I could see him sigh in frustration.

I did the cone beam and it turned out the roots were almost touching the nerve and he recommended I get it surgically removed. So with the blood still running from the first attempt, I got on the table and got bone removed from my jaw to access a monstrosity of a root. It took an hour and a half to remove it eventually.

Oh and when the first dentist finished with the bunch of treatments she recommended, she said she will not be doing the orthodontic treatment for me and she brought in a friend of hers who graduated just last year.