Is it of vital importance that I extract my “wisdom teeth”?
The presence of wisdom teeth might cause some adverse conditions that make their extraction inevitable, such as:
- Local or diffuse neuralgia
- Damage to nearby teeth (caries, root or bone absorption)
- Pericoronitis (inflammation of the mucosa covering the wisdom tooth with pain, discharge of pus, etc.)
- Causing or worsening orthodontic abnormalities
- Provoking of pathological conditions (cysts, etc.)
- Inhibiting a partial or a full denture to “fit in”.
Since no one can guarantee that a healthy wisdom tooth without symptoms will not create future problems, the choice of its removal or not should be made after consideration of all the above. The younger the patient is the better the outcome of an operation that will be downsized in time and certainly will have easier post-operative healing period.