These are the remedies that I used. At 5 weeks, I noticed marked improvement and my full recovery took less than two months. The worst part was definitely the constant tight feeling in my lower teeth, but I am happy to report that is gone and I have FULL SENSATION in my lip and chin.

B Complex. The B-vitamins help to maintain the health of the nerves.
Source Naturals B-125 Complex 125 MG - 90 Tablets

Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin). B Complex contains B12, but I also took B12 separately. Make sure you get methylcobalamin as this type of B12 is better targeted to nerve issues than its common counterpart – cyanocobalamin. B12 helps prevent nerve damage, and promotes normal growth and development by maintaining the fatty sheaths that cover and protect nerve endings.
Source Naturals Methylcobalamin 5 MG - 60 Tablets

Vitamin C. In nerve cells, vitamin C directly reacts with free radicals to prevent oxidative stress.
Source Naturals Ultimate Ascorbate C 1000 MG - 100 Tablets

Calcium. Most people do not get enough calcium in their diet, and if you take calcium, you must also balance it with magnesium. Coral Calcium is best.
Source Naturals Coral Calcium/Magnesium - 180 Tablets

Emotional Freedom Technique I have had much success with this easy to learn technique, aka 'Self Acupuncture Sans Needles.'
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Folic Acid (aka Folate).
Source Naturals Folic Acid 800 MCG - 500 Tablets

NerveFix. Helps relieve minor symptoms of nerve-related tingling, numbness, burning, pain and pins and needles.

NaturalCare's Nerve Fix 60Caps

You certainly do not have to use each and every one of these products, but this is what I used to recover from my interior alveolar nerve injury in less then 8 weeks. Source Naturals' products are high quality and worked very well for me. I highly recommend NerveFix as I feel this product targeted my uncomfortable symptoms.

Wisdom Tooth Facts

At around the age of 17, wisdom teeth either erupt—or try to, or fail entirely to erupt—in the back of your mouth. Because of the lack of room in the jaw for the large, sharp wisdom teeth, the dental community often encourages them to be removed. But why should you? Do your teeth need all that space? Or is there more to it than that?

When wisdom teeth come into your mouth fully, and not crooked, they’re usually harmless, and serve their purpose of being grinders. But it’s often the case that a tooth will only erupt halfway, leaving the pierced gum area around it susceptible to food and bacteria which can leak down inside and cause infection—not to mention bad breath. These infections aren’t small matters, although they do begin that way. If left untreated, they can cause trismus, the inability to fully open the mouth, and keep spreading until they reach as far as the neck.

Even if a tooth does come out correctly, it’s far enough back in the mouth for it to be difficult to reach to clean with a toothbrush and impossible to floss without unhinging your jaw.

However, most wisdom tooth-related problems are caused by the tooth failing to emerge fully from the gum—these teeth, called ‘impacted teeth’, can tilt outwards abnormally, crowding the teeth around them and causing pain and irritation of the gums. Such crowding can create a slow-working domino effect, causing other teeth to become crooked. After that, they can only be returned to their original positions with braces.

Cysts can form around the impacted tooth, affecting the bones and expanding the jaw. If they grow large enough, they can fracture the jaw. Sometimes, although not often, cysts can harbor cancerous tumors.

There are many kinds of impaction—mesial, when the tooth is angled toward the front of the mouth; vertical, towards the bottom; horizontal, when a tooth is on its side; and distal, when it angles toward the back of the mouth. There’s more: bony impaction is when the tooth hasn’t even made it to the gum, but is still stuck behind in the jawbone. Soft tissue impaction describes when the tooth does make it through the bone, but fails to make the final jump through the gum tissue.

But why go through with having these teeth, which are signals that one has come-of-age in some cultures, removed now? Surgery certainly isn’t something to which many of us look forward. Unless it’s pressing—like, say, a brain transplant—we tend to put it off. But it’s best to remove the cause before it becomes a problem, which is why, although the thought of removing these third molars isn’t enticing, you should have them out before they can cause discomfort and infection in your mouth. Even if you do manage to avoid these effects for awhile, the bone surrounding the tooth becomes denser as you age, and once you pass forty the tooth becomes more difficult to remove. So what are you waiting for? A few days of pain can save you years of headache.

Fashun Smith is a freelance writer and consumer advocate for http://www.CheckMyDentist.com, helping visitors locate a Dentist Atlanta and all over the United States.

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Time Heals.

Several people told me that it may take up to a year for the nerve to regenerate.

I am very fortunate to have had a quick recovery. My plan was to wait 8 weeks, and if my symptoms had not improved within that time frame, I was prepared to contact a nerve repair specialist. Thankfully, this was not necessary.

The "tight feeling" in my teeth was gone in three weeks. After 5 weeks, my mouth was no longer the first thing I thought of upon awakening. Sensation in my chin and lip returned very gradually and was back to normal within seven weeks. Initially, I thought that I may merely be getting used to the sensation, but then I realized that I was actually improving.

When the injury first occurred, it felt like I had a piece of plywood stuck to my chin. The lip numbness also affected my speech slightly as when I spoke, there was a part of it that didn't move. The vice grip on my teeth was constant and by far the most annoying part of my injury.

I started to feel somewhat selfish after realizing that many people with nerve damage suffer from intense pain. Nerve pain can be debilitating and here I was, complaining of numbness.

Nevertheless, I wanted things back the way the were before the surgery, and I tried a number of different treatments. Maybe my nerve just needed time, but I believe that the remedies I used sped up my recovery.

I never thought that the aftermath of a common surgery would consume my life.

The consent form mentioned the possibility of “altered sensation” following the extraction of a third molar (aka “wisdom tooth”), but by no means did I assume that I would be in that unlucky 1%.

A few hours after surgery, I realized something was not quite right. The left side of my tongue, lower left chin, lip and gums were still numb. There was some sensation, but it felt like they were “asleep.” I also discovered a hematoma in my left cheek about the size of a golfball. The worst symptom, however, other than the gaping holes in my mouth, was the feeling of a vice grip on my lower left teeth. Prescribed painkillers helped take the edge off somewhat, but my only real relief came when I slept.

My mouth became the first thing I thought of in the morning and the last thing I thought of before drifting off to sleep.

What to do?

First off, I decided to research my injury and came across a wonderful online support group - The Lingual and Inferior Alveolar Nerve Damage Discussion Site. Besides offering a great group of people to bounce things off of, this site includes information on nerve damage, possible treatments, and most importantly, for me, were the successful recovery stories. This is what kept me going in the early days of my injury. I literally lived on this board for weeks.

It turns out that my Inferior Alveolar Nerve was damaged during the wisdom tooth extraction. Trademark symptoms include numbness in lip and chin (parasthesia) and a crushing sensation in the teeth.

While most people's nerves eventually regenerate, I was nervous about being in the 1% population that is injured in the first place, so I was only cautiously optimistic. But, as everyone told me, recovery is a matter of time.