Wisdom teeth extraction – couldn’t it be simpler?

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If removing your wisdom teeth requires more extensive surgery/anaesthetics then why not just remove the molars in front of them to allow the wisdom teeth to come in?

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By the time you have trouble with wisdom teeth, it typically much too late to do anything but extract them. You would be shocked to see how badly twisted a severely impacted wisdom tooth can be [https://www.baoms.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/images/patients/removal_impacted_wisdom_teeth/img_5.jpg](https://www.baoms.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/images/patients/removal_impacted_wisdom_teeth/img_5.jpg) giving it a little more space with the tooth is literally SIDEWAYS is too little too late

extracting four healthy teeth from EVERYONE just in case their wisdom teeth cause trouble later would be a huge amount of unnecessary dental work.

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