How do you know if you will need your wisdom teeth pulled?

Question

Mine are coming in and I am just wondering what reason people get them pulled for. One of them is causing pain b/c it's sharp and is cutting into my gums on the side.

Answer 1

Pains = Dentist
No pains = No dentist.

Answer 2

I had my wisdom teeth pulled as a teen and all 4 teeth were impacted (under the gum). The issue with wisdom teeth is that they sometimes grow, and grow forward. My wisdom teeth were doing this and pushing on my teeth, which were newly straightened by very expensive braces. So this was in fact helping my teeth from going crooked. The surgery was quick and I remembered nothing. I quickly learned what I could eat and drank many liquids and therefore had a very fast recovery.

Answer 3

because they hurt!! Other reasons are if they come in crooked, then they can push against your existing teeth and cause them to be crooked. (causing a large tooth pile up and lots of visits to the orthodontist) if they grow outward, they can scrape away at the side of your cheek. That will also ruin your day. Your dentist takes Xrays and can predict if they are not going to grow in straight and sometimes he just pulls them out before they completely grow in. If they grow in kinda crooked, food can get stuck in there, rot away and start rotting away at your tooth and gums making that painful too. Very rarely do the wisdom teeth grow in properly and some dentists just leave them in if there arent any problems. I had all of my wisdom teeth pulled. They use a local anesthetic. The worst pain that I felt was the needle sticking in my gums. The procedure was done in a few hours and I remember taking off work the day after but I was otherwise not inconvenienced.

Answer 4

Go to the dentist. He can do a simple x-ray and be able to tell you which ones need to be pulled and which ones don't. If they are coming in too close or if they are coming in pushing on your back teeth then you will most likely have to have them pulled.
Everyone has pain when their teeth are cutting in, no matter which teeth it is. It is the direction they are facing that determines if you have to have them pulled or not.

Answer 5

You usually have to have them pulled if they are crowding your other teeth causing them to become crooked. If they do not emerge completely, become impacted, that's another reason. They do hurt when they come in, this is normal but it will stop hurting once they're in. Pain while they're coming in is not an indicator they need to be removed, the pain is just natural. :)

Answer 6

Wisdom teeth are third molars.They are
useful especially if you have lost teeth in
the mouth.However,when they are impacted,
they can be painful and may need to be
removed. I found the information
at http://aches.in/wisdomteeth.html

Answer 7

X-Rays will show if they are impacted and if this is the case they will probabley need extracting.Impacted wisdom teeth are growing at an angle and cannot push through the gum causing inflamation ,pain and swelling.

Answer 8

I've had quite a few wisdoms out. I had 3 out in one sitting once!! Ouch! I'm having the next one out on 23rd Dec! 2 days before Chritmas I had to have them out because I have a crowded mouth. Trust me, you will know if you need them out! Get to the Dentist now!

Answer 9

Get them out ASAP if they're causing that pain. They will be a pain in the @$$ later. The reason they're removed is because modern humans' jaws are too small to accommodate them, so they end up burrowing into and destroying your molars.

Actually I just had mine (all 4) removed this Wednesday. And here I am at my computer, happy, on Vicodin, and not having stabbing pain! Woot! WHEEEEEEE! :PPP

Answer 10

Should You Have Your Wisdom Teeth Removed?

Jennifer Flach was a college junior when her wisdom teeth started making themselves known.

"My other teeth started moving around," she remembers. "The wisdom teeth were pushing out and undoing some of the orthodontic work I had done in high school."

At the same time, her brother — who's two years younger and was also in college — had no symptoms. But the family dentist suggested his wisdom teeth should come out too.

Jen and her brother had back-to-back wisdom tooth extractions and recovered together at home during spring break. "It was quite a week at my parents' house," she says.

Patrick Grother was 26 when his dentist mentioned that his wisdom teeth might need to be removed. His bottom left wisdom tooth had partially erupted into his mouth and a flap of gum still covered it. "The dentist said food would get trapped there and it could get infected," he says. Patrick then visited a periodontist, who said that the gum flap could be cut away but it would grow back.

"I put it off for awhile," Patrick said, but he eventually had the wisdom teeth on the left side of his mouth extracted.

A few people are born without wisdom teeth or have room in their mouths for them, but like Jen and her brother, many of us get our wisdom teeth taken out during our college years. And like Patrick, many of us are first alerted to the problem when our wisdom teeth don't emerge (erupt) into the mouth properly because there is not enough toom for them to fit.

"A part of the tooth may remain covered by a flap of gum, where food particles and bacteria can get trapped, causing a mild irritation, a low-grade infection called pericoronitis and swelling," says Dr. Donald Sadowsky, professor emeritus of clinical dentistry College of Dental Medicine and the Mailman School of Public Health. This usually happens with the lower wisdom teeth. Pericoronitis and the pain it causes is the most common reason people need their wisdom teeth taken out.

Pericoronitis is just one of the reasons that you may need to have a wisdom tooth or more than one removed.

In many people, the wisdom teeth never even partially enter the mouth. Often the teeth are tilted under the gum and blocked from coming in by bone or other teeth. Dentists call these impacted teeth; they may cause pain, but you may feel nothing at all for years. You may not even be aware that you have wisdom teeth until your dentist sees them on an X-ray.

Regular dental visits are important during your teens and early twenties because this is the time when teeth are most likely to decay. Regular visits allow your dentist to follow the progress of your wisdom teeth with X-rays.

Even if your wisdom teeth aren't causing any pain or other problems, they may cause problems at some point. The most common problems are decay, infection, and crowding or damage to other teeth. But more serious complications can occur, including the development of a cyst that can cause permanent damage to bone, teeth and nerves.

However, not all wisdom teeth need to be removed.

If removing wisdom teeth is necessary, it's easier in younger people because the tooth roots are not fully developed and the bone in which the teeth sit is less dense. Extracting your wisdom teeth before any complications develop also allows for shorter recovery time and less discomfort after the surgery.

Answer 11

THEN YOU MIGHT NEED TO GET THAT ONE PULLED. PEOPLE GET THEM TAKEN OUT B/C OF THAT PAIN, CROWDING IN THE MOUTH. IF YOUVE HAD BRACES AND THEN YOU GET UR WISDOM TEETH, THEY WILL MOVE UR OTHER TEETH AROUND AND GET REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.