What is the purpose of getting your wisdom teeth taken out?

Question

Does everybody go through that process or some?
What about our teeth afterwards? I thought teeth stops growing back in after you get all your teeth when you are about 8-12?
How do you know you need to get them pulled out or not?

Answer 1

It depends not everyones widsom teeth come out some are still impacted(which means they haven't erupted through the gums) and are still there. They can grow in odd ways it put pressure on many parts of the mouth. included the jaw, nodes, neck and ear canals.

I had to have my own I was in so much pain, they were pushing on my other teeth and i kept getting infections in my back molars so they did a xray of the whole mouth and they showed the molars pushing forward and causing spasming and sitting on the nerves.

You will know if you need them out. the are exteremly painful on the back of your lower jaw, the can cause extremely bad headaches even migranes, blocked ear canals, and infections.

Wisdom teeth that only partially erupt allows for an opening for bacteria to enter around the tooth and cause an infection, which results in pain, swelling, jaw stiffness, and general illness. Partially erupted teeth are also more prone to tooth decay and gum disease because their hard-to-reach location and awkward positioning makes brushing and flossing difficult.

I'm just glad i had my out at an early age. cringes at the thought of doing it again.

Your dental insurance will not cover them if they are not all taken out at the same time and they must be impacted and your medical will cover most of it.

Answer 2

If your dentist tells you to have your wisdom teeth out - DO IT!

Why remove a wisdom tooth?

http://www.members.aol.com/swf08302/wizdk.jpg shows one reason. This is what can happen by the time you are 40 or 50 if you leave a wisdom tooth in place when it is impacted. The red arrows on the x-ray show the grey area that has decayed due to the wisdom tooth being present under the gum. The tooth shown is the exact same tooth shown in the x-ray, but turned so you can see the cavity. Food and bacteria can get down there and you can't clean it out. Eventually, it makes a cavity in the tooth next to the wisdom tooth and makes it so you have to have BOTH teeth removed.

Answer 3

I went through oral surgery to remove my wisdom teeth at about 21. It is pretty important if you want to keep your teeth straight. As mentioned before, there is usually not enough room in the mouth cavity for the extra wisdom teeth, they are a leftover from a time when the human face was more elongated.

Besides screwing up the alignment of you teeth, wisdom teeth coming in crooked can cause headaches and lethargy because your body may treat the extra teeth as a foreign body and attack them or infection of the wisdom teeth can cause toxic shock syndrome and blood poisoning.

Answer 4

Not everyone needs their wisdom teeth pulled out. A lot of times they will need to be taken out if they are growing sideways or to where they will cause discomfort and never fully erupt. Sometimes if they are growing the wrong way they can be pushing your other teeth and cause them to shift, or cause crowding. If you have your wisdom teeth and they are grown in like your other molars sometimes having them back there makes your molars more prone to decay. Most of the time doctors will tell you that you need them out, other than that it all depends on the person :)

Answer 5

You actually don't even begin getting wisdom teeth until your late teens or early 20s. They may come in crooked. In some people, they come in and crumble even before they complete growing. If wisdom teeth are compacted you will need them removed. Wisdom teeth may also shift the rest of your teeth. You'll know if they need to come out. It could be painful if they don't come in correctly.

Answer 6

Wisdom teeth can be impacted and get infected. They also can crowd your mouth and push your other teeth forward, sometimes they can cause your other teeth to crack. When you feel your teeth move or seem to have alot of soreness in the back of your mouth. Wisdom start popping thru in late teens, and it can hurt alot for some people. If you get alot of gum/throat infections or pain you will know. Your dentist will also notice if you do.

Answer 7

Try to relax, you're going to be fine. I wasn't even knocked out when they took out my wisdom teeth (they just gave me local anesthesia. I was given pain pills for the recovery, but I didn't take those. It really doesn't hurt as badly as most people say it does. As far as what you can eat, well you can eat anything you want, you just have to make sure you keep the food away from the extraction sites until they heal.

Answer 8

Basically, most people's jaws are too small for them to come in and function properly as teeth. Sometimes it's too small for them to even develop properly, and often they'll wind up growing into awkward positions and/or ramming into your molars, causing extreme pain.

A few people do have the space for them, but most people don't, so they have to come out.

As for how to know if you need 'em out, when you get to be around 18 and you go for a checkup, the dentist might offer to take an x-ray to see where they're at. Or, in other cases, they'll start coming in and you'll know yourself from the resulting pain.

Answer 9

well, i think the main reason is because they are so far back and hard to keep cleaner than the other teeth, plus you really don't need them much for chewing. Sometimes they push your other teeth ahead or cause pain. One of mine was SO rotten (and all my other teeth were great), that it caused pain. I had conscious sedation (I was pretty much asleep when I had mine done). It's up to the individual, I know some who still have theirs and have no issues.

Answer 10

Sometimes they don't show up til the mid twenties, and yes - they are a problem for some, while no problem at all for others. The way they are a problem is if they grow in weird, or the most common, you don't have room for them. If you let it go too long like I did, it will push some of your teeth together and make them uneven.