Wisdom Tooth Extraction - Part II

Advantages of not having a wisdom tooth pulled

Keeping wisdom teeth allows reaching the plentycapacity of growth and development of teeth and jaw. A wisdom tooth also can, under appropriate conditions, be transplanted to the position of a premature loss of another tooth elsewhere in the jaw.

You don't exposed yourself to the risk of a wisdom tooth surgery.

The risks and the advantages of a wisdom tooth removal must be examined.

Risks of a wisdom tooth removal

Complications of smaller importance as dental nerve damage, infection, alveolitis, trismus (difficulty to open the mouth), hemorrhage, fractures, periodontal injury, and damage ofthe adjacent tooth.

Alveolitis is the commonest complication that particularly happens to women and in the range of 25 years. Also it is seen more often in the patients who had dental indication for wisdom tooth extraction that in those who they did it by own election.

This happens in a 5% of te patients without concerning the ability or the surgical method of the chosen dentist. The damage of the nerves is rare, but it can imply paresthesia (persistent numbness) of the lip or the tongue.

Greater complications include dysesthesia (a sensation of a needle prick or something that crawls in the skin) and infections. Most of the injuries of the nerve they are cured after certain period, but some permanent injuries happen. Any damage that lasts beyond six months is probable to be permanent.