Importance Of Wisdom Tooth Removal
Have you ever wondered why should a Wisdom Tooth be removed?
Before that what do you know about Wisdom Tooth?
They are the third or final set of molars. Most people get in their late teens or early twenties.
If wisdom tooth are healthy and properly aligned they are big asset to the mouth but they are removed when they are misaligned.
What is their purpose? When should we remove them?
These are use to grind the food since they are strongest of all the teeth but when these are misaligned they give more pain and are not of much use. When the tooth may not have enough space to come out from the gum. We generally don’t find any problems with other teeth but these molars have issues.
Issues when not removed
When wisdom tooth have signs of infection it should be removed immediately.
Some of the issues include :
- Cavities
- Lesions
- causing damage to nearby teeth
- bone loss around the roots
- when there is no space for brushing or flossing around the tooth
Possible problems that occur later
There will be a sack of tissue around it before the tooth comes in.
The tissue grown can sometimes grow into a cyst which can lean to bone loss in your jaw.
If the tooth is falling on a side under the gum, it destroys the teeth and eats away the roots.
Bacteria can accumlate around the tooth thats only a part out.
Extraction of Wisdom Tooth
The extraction can be simple or harder for the Dentist it all depends upon your tooth how far it is out of your mouth.
They give Anesthesia to the area where the wisdom tooth should be removed due to that numbness occurs at that particular area only.
After that they will use a tool called elevator to loosen the tooth and they pull out with dental forceps.
After Extraction
Then they clean the area with gauge to stop the bleeding. You feel painful and inflamed for few days. After the extraction you should not brush or rinse your teeth for 24 hrs. Gargling with salt water for every 2 hours for a week after 24 hours should be done.
Surgical Extraction
If the tooth is still below the gum line, then it should be removed by surgical process. In this process also Anesthisia is given but it giving in higher dosage since the extraction is more painful. The dentist may cut open the gum and remove the tooth bone to get to the root. In order to do that they cut the tooth into pieces to keep the hole as small as possible.
Benefits Of Removing Wisdom Tooth
- Over crowding due to misalignment.
- Prevents damage to the near by teeth.
- Decreases the risk of oral disease and swelling.
- Decrease of Orofacial pain.
- Stops cysts, tumors and jaw damage.