Core Tip: Wisdom teeth are not extracted before they affect other teeth. When you visit your dentist, you often hear from the doctor that you have a wisdom tooth that needs to be removed, and it is best to remove it as soon as possible. Patients generally think that my tooth is fine, why should I ask for trouble to have it extracted? This idea of the patient is both right and wrong. The right thing is that the teeth cannot be extracted casually, and the wrong thing is that the wisdom teeth that the doctor thinks should be extracted should be extracted as soon as possible. Why should wisdom teeth be removed?
Counting back from the first tooth in the middle of the dentition, the eighth tooth is the wisdom tooth. The food of modern people is getting more and more refined, the jaws are not fully developed, and the length of the jaws is insufficient. Most of the wisdom teeth cannot fully erupt, or are misplaced, or completely buried in the bone. Dentists call these teeth impacted teeth.
Due to the abnormal position, direction and height of eruption, wisdom teeth usually do not have the function of chewing, and they are easy to bite the buccal mucosa and the opposite gums, often causing food impaction, inflammation, swelling and pain of the surrounding soft tissue, leading to the destruction of periodontal tissue. Wisdom teeth are located in the rearmost part of the oral cavity, the space is small, the toothbrush is not easy to reach, and the hygiene condition is poor, which is easy to cause caries, and also easy to cause caries of the adjacent teeth in front.
When the jaw is underdeveloped and there is not enough space, the wisdom teeth forcibly erupt and squeeze the front teeth, sometimes causing inexplicable pain, and can also cause the roots of the front teeth to be compressed and absorbed, and even cause the front dentition to be distorted and aggravated. Misaligned teeth. The abnormal eruption position, height and direction of wisdom teeth interfere with the normal movement of the jaw during mastication, and cause the masticatory muscles and temporomandibular joint to receive abnormal force, causing spasm and pain in the related muscles. Abnormal function of joints, and even pathological changes in joint structure.
Due to the above possible problems, in order to protect the health of the oral cavity, dentists often recommend the removal of wisdom teeth to avoid damage to other teeth and tissues caused by wisdom teeth. Of course, wisdom teeth that erupt normally and have chewing function should be preserved and protected. In addition, fully ambush and asymptomatic wisdom teeth can also be retained.
However, the existence of wisdom teeth reduces the fracture resistance of the mandible. For those who engage in acrobatics or violent contact sports, in order to prevent mandibular fractures, it is best to remove the fully ambush wisdom teeth in advance. Wisdom teeth, if the position is good and the occlusal relationship is normal, then of course there is no need to pull it out. But if the position is not good, it is recommended that you pull it out, because the bad wisdom teeth will bring you some inconvenience in the future, such as When your own resistance decreases, inflammation and other conditions will occur. It can also tell you that wisdom teeth in the mouth, under normal circumstances, have no effect, so extraction will not hinder your oral function.
