How to prevent a wisdom tooth surgery
It is obvious that the ideal thing is avoiding reaching the maximum limit, which is a wisdom teeth surgery. And for this aim, the only way to make this possible is by visiting your dentist every six months.
This way your doctor can prevent the incidence of any impacted wisdom tooth. If this turns out to be the case, it will require wisdom teeth surgery that will have to be perfomed by a maxilofacial surgeon.
A maxilofacial surgeon is the dental specialist who is trained to perform surgeries in mouth and maxillaries. A maxilofacial specialist can extract the four wisdom teeth in just one single intervention of 30 to 60 min with minimal effects (pain and swelling).
Beware: When a wisdom teeth surgery is not performed correctly it can cause permanent problems as infections, sinusitis, and low nerve damage (the enrve that gives sensibility to the lower lip and chin).
October 27, 2007
Wisdom teeth surgery – Part I
September 30, 2007
Did you know that not everyone has wisdom teeth?
That's right, there are super lucky individuals who will never undergo the dread pain and discomfort of wisdom teeth. And why is that? Genetic reasons determine whether any or the four-set of wisdom teeth come put or not. But before you jump on your feet...these cases are not the most.
The second option is that any wisdom tooth or the four erupt and join your other teeth to perfom the chewing process.
The third option –and the most troublesome- si they get partially or totally trapped in the maxilar bone or the jaw that rproduce much more pain and discomfort than the second option, and that will require an immediate visit to your dentist.
Note: If you didn’t know, wisdom teeth are called this way becasue they appear between the ages of 18 and 25 years old, when the person has arrived to the age of “wisdom”.
