Do we really need to get our wisdom teeth removed? And what takes place after your wisdom teeth are removed? Do they just come back?
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In times past, we used to do a lot of tearing with our mouths, which over time pulled the lower jaw forward – when the moth was closed, the front teeth would have met evenly. Now, because we don’t tear like that anymore, we all have overbites – our top teeth are further forward than the lower.
This means that there is less space in the lower jaw for wisdom teeth – so, often, they don’t fit any more. When the wisdom teeth come up, they don’t have enough room, and often they “impact” against the teeth in front of them – so they end up being slanted at ~45 degrees, with the front under the tooth in front of it and the back above the gum line. This in itself is painful and a problem. On top of that the upper wisdoms then have no lower teeth to press against and end up coming out crooked
This is one scenario, others are possible, but it’s what happened to me. Nothing takes their place – though my gum is a bit higher where they used to be. There really isn’t enough space for anything there because if I move my jaw other things need that space to move – they were very painful. They never come back (thank god)
nothing takes their place. wisdom teeth are like your other adult teeth, they just don’t fit well since our jaws have shrunk. this means they can grow in wrong and damage their neighbors
I’ll chime in here. Some people don’t have their wisdom teeth removed. In my case, I only have two wisdom teeth in the first place. And they’re facing down enough that they don’t impact my other teeth in a drastic way. I do have two crooked teeth because my wisdom teeth come in at a little bit of an angle, but it was never going to cause me any real harm, so the dentist left them in.
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Well mine came in sideways and busted through my gums and made it hard to eat/talk. So in my case yes, i needed them removed. There are some people that have them and they come in like normal teeth though.
Mine didn’t grow through as a teen but my dentist said if they tried to, they’d get stuck in the roots of my gums and it wouldn’t be nice so i had to get them removed as soon as I graduated high school.
[As you’ll see from this quick Google search the wisdom teeth tend to come in sideways and just under the gum and so it’s best that they are removed as many complications can arise](https://i.imgur.com/NKpO2Nf.jpg)
Mine grew in normally and my dentist said as long as there are no cavities or issues, they can stay where they are. No, they do not grow back…I assume the gums are just stitched up and there is empty space where the teeth used to be
Most people get them removed because there isn’t enough room in your jaw for all the teeth. They end up squishing your other teeth which causes them to die. I had mine removed because of this and the pressure they were causing made my jaw hurt and gave me headaches. They had also barely come in and the dentist told me I already had precavaties on them because it was literally impossible to fit a tooth brush back there to clean them. I read one time that they were originally there to replace teeth that would have died and fallen out when we were not aware of the importance of dental hygein.
No you don’t. In the UK you only get them removed if they cause a problem, of course you go for 6/12 monthly checkups so you can catch any issues as they arise. In the US I’ve herd that you absolutely have to have them removed as a child, since humans simply can’t have wisdom teeth since we evolved a smaller mouth but forgot to evolve smaller/fewer teeth.
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