Hi Stacy, Welcome to the pain boards. Vicodin is considered to be stronger than tramadol, although tramadol might be the more effective pain killer dose to dose, I'm not sure.
1. Warm Salt Water. Rinsing your mouth with warm salt water is one of the easiest and most effective ways to get rid of wisdom tooth pain. Take hot water and dissolve a few tablespoons of salt in it. When the salt water has cooled to a warm temperature, rinse your mouth with it for a few minutes and you will find noticeable relief.
Once, one of my wisdom teeth was impacted, so the pain was worse to have it in my mouth than it was after extraction. Sufficed to say, I didn't need anything for pain. Compared to having a decayed, impacted wisdom tooth in my gums, the after-effect of extraction was just a mild-ache. I had 5 teeth pulled 6 days ago, 4 wisdom and 1 bottom front tooth. Just had local freezing, a few stitches and all went excellent. I had almost no pain during or after for about 2 days. It was no problem at all and a quick recovery for 3 of my teeth.