What happens when you got an impacted wisdom tooth - Part I

So when going to the dentist for a wisdom tooth removal, and he/she tells you that this tooth is impacted, but what does this means and how it would affect your dental health?

Here we explain it to you easy if you didn’t catch well the idea at the dentist office…

What is an impacted wisdom tooth?

Wisdom tooth are the third molars, they are usually the most annoying of all teeth and get the most incredible forms and positions.

Here is where the problem comes, when all of our teeth have come up, there is no enough room for some “extra teeth” in the mouth. Therefore, when wisdom teeth try to emerge they get impacted under the bone, and they can not come up completely in the jaw.

What happens, then?

NO EXTRACTION. Most dentists prefer to leave these wisdom teeth alone because according to studies, an extraction would cause severe bone impaction, when actually they do rarely cause any infections neither push other teeth nor produce misalignment when left peacefully underneath the jaw.

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Wisdom Tooth Extraction - Part I

A widom tooth extraction is the most common procedure dentists do. Since there is no exact way to predict what wisdom tooth will cause problems and which not, dentists are subjective when it comes to make a decision and say that, even though they do not cause to pain, they must be removed.

Since dentists are divided on this question, here we set some standards to youon the risks that exist in each one of the two options: extracting it or to leaving it if there is not wisdom tooth symptom.

Which are the risks of not removing wisdom teeth?

• One of the most common reasons is when the affected wisdom tooth pushes other teeth. Some dentists say that this can happen, but that that does not justify to clear them if they do not bother.
  

• An impacted wisdom tooth can cause to damage to the tooth or molar that is opposed to it. This is a fact, but it only occurs to a 2% of the world's population.

• Periodontal disease around the wisdom tooth. This is possible, but in young adults less of 1% have these problems. The problem must to the deficiency of good dental hygiene.
  

• Pericornitis: A wisdom tooth infection that produces the formation of abscesses, is seen more commonly in wisdom teeth. This is a reason for wisdom tooth removal.
  

• The development of mouth cysts and tumors is often mentioned, but this is very rare. The cysts often are confused with other normal characteristics in the x-rays. The tumors are in less of a percent of wisdom teeth.

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