When you are in your late teens or your early twenties you may start to feel some discomfort and pain in the back of your mouth. Often times, the reason you are feeling this pain is because your wisdom teeth are starting to break through your gums.
Your wisdom teeth are the third and last set of molars that you should be getting in your life time. Often times, these teeth will grow in misaligned and because of this your doctor will require that they are removed.
Some people have teeth that grow in horizontally, angled towards or away from the other molars and even angled into the tongue or into the cheek. This can be especially damaging or frustrating to deal with if you have already had braces that re-aligned your teeth.
When your teeth grow in all helter skelter like that you can suffer some serious repercussions. Your wisdom teeth can grow to damage your already set molars, they can damage the jaw bone and they can even press on and damage nerves.
You want to make sure that you are visiting the dentist often during this time of your life so your wisdom teeth can be monitored. It is important to visit the dentist because sometimes these molars will get stuck in your gum or your jawbone and will barely break your gum line.
If your tooth is stuck underneath your gum the tooth is then called "impacted". This means that there is room for bacteria and germs to ender inside of your gum through the small spaces between your gum and your tooth.
As this happens you will often times then have to deal with an infection in your mouth. If you have an infection in your mouth you will probably suffer from pain, swelling, jaw stiffness and even other types of sicknesses.
The tooth is also more likely to decay and the gums around the tooth are more likely to have gum disease. It is very important that you understand these risks and problems that you could have and you take care of the tooth as soon as you possibly can.
As you start to feel that these molars are coming in you will want to talk to your dentist about getting an x-ray. This way your dentist will be able to know how your teeth are coming in and what he needs to do to fix them.
Some people are lucky enough to have these molars come in without any problem. When the tooth is coming in straight and does not pose any problems for your teeth you do not need to have them removed from your mouth.
Sometimes, your dentist or your oral surgeon will see the teeth in an x-ray and want to remove them before they even break the skin. This makes the removal process easier because the roots of the tooth have not fully developed.
Many people have heard horror stories about how hard it was for a dentist to get someone's wisdom teeth out. The level of ease that the doctor will have in removing your teeth will solely depend on how they are growing in.
There is nothing that you can do now to make this process easier for your dentist. As long as he or she is seeing you regularly to check on the teeth you can only hope that they grow in in such a manner that allows easy removal.
Depending on the position of your tooth you may have to have an oral surgeon perform the extraction. There are some surgeons that specialize specifically in getting hard to reach wisdom teeth out of people's mouths.
When this happens sometimes the oral surgeon will have to go in and remove the tooth piece by piece rather than in one chunk. You will not know the difference at this point because you will have been put under.
The only way that you will be awake during your tooth extraction is if your doctor can just go in and pull the tooth in one chunk. There are a lot of dentists that prefer to do this because your healing time will be much quicker.
Although you will be awake for the process you will be numbed by local anesthetic. The shot, inserted into your gum, will numb the local nerves and tissue to ensure you are not in pain throughout the procedure.
As your mouth heals you will experience discomfort and sometimes pain. You want to take care of your teeth to ensure you do not run into serious problems.
Author Resource:-
Ignacio Lopez has authored hundreds of articles relating to oral health and dentistry. He recommends wisdom teeth for dental implants. He has been a guest dental lecturer for over 15 years.
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