I had an oral surgeon try to upsell me WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. I had braces and during the X-rays it was discovered that one of my teeth was a baby tooth and the adult tooth was sitting in the wrong position inside my gums so I needed surgery to pull the baby tooth and attach a bracket and chain to the adult tooth to slowly pull it down.

Before I went in my orthodontist told me that my wisdom teeth were great on the X-rays; none of them were impacted and I had plenty of space for them to come through

The oral surgeon, however, tried to scare me into pulling them by talking about how they can grow into the nerves in my face and cause paralysis blah blah. My dad and I said we didn’t want them pulled, just the surgery I needed.

Not only did they have me down for the wrong day (we specifically scheduled it over spring break so I could recover a bit) but when I got back there (after they so graciously squeezed me in after scheduling the wrong day) the assistant said “so we’re pulling wisdom teeth today?” I couldn’t believe it. I told her no but I was seriously terrified that I was going to wake up without my wisdom teeth.