5 Reasons To Have Your Wisdom Teeth Removed

For the lack of a better word, wisdom teeth are the more ‘thicker’ teeth that you find in your gums.  They grow between the age of seventeen and twenty-five. While most people have four wisdom teeth, it is quite normal to have fewer or no wisdom teeth at all.  

The problem arises when you have an impacted wisdom tooth. By impact, we mean a tooth which is partially or completely covered by gums. When that happens, it is advisable that you get your tooth removed.

If you do not get teeth removed, it will lead to several complications like jaw ache, bleeding gums, bad breath, damage to teeth or gums around that area etc. To save yourself from these complications, you must get the tooth removed as soon as possible.

Here are 5 reasons to have your wisdom teeth removed.

1- Inflammation

As the wisdom tooth is relatively bigger in size and there is barely any extra space between your gums, when it grows it pushes against the gum and the teeth in the surrounding area leading to pain and irritation.

As it grows further, the pain tends to increase exponentially. Once inflammation starts it is very tough to alleviate it and the only way out of this situation is to extract the tooth altogether.

According to the dental clinic in San Jose, a lot of people wait to extract their tooth before till the time it is completely impacted. One should understand that partial inflammation can be far more dangerous as it creates a space between the tooth and the gums where bacteria starts growing.

2- Lesser space

Have you wondered why some people wear braces? When the teeth get misaligned, the doctors recommend braces to the patient to put the entire structure together and aligned. The misalignment happens as a result of the abnormal growth of a tooth or teeth resulting in it pushing the other teeth surrounding and hence, the unnecessary jostling of space between the teeth. The growth of wisdom teeth can actually lead you towards being forced to wear a pair of braces all the time.

3- Harmful for other teeth

If you do not want to uproot your impacted wisdom tooth and want to protect it for some strange reason, you must know that your decision will end up damaging your other teeth as well. As the tooth grows, it will create less space for the other teeth and will also encroach upon the area they are entrenched in.  

The growth of a tooth will also result it in clashing with the other teeth and causing bone loss and cavities in the gums. Your gums have space only for a certain number of teeth of a particular size. Any kind of abnormal growth will create a space issue and damage other teeth.

4- Tumours

A dental clinic in San Jose reports that a wisdom tooth, which has been severely impacted, can lead to small tumours or cysts in the gums or the jawbone. This will, invariably, lead to a lot of pain emanating from that area.

There is a chance of you suffering from Temporomandibular joint or the TMJ syndrome. TMJ refers to the kind of pain that occurs in the jaw joint.

TMJ serves as the link between the lower jaw and the skull in front of the ear. If you suffer from the TMJ syndrome, you have to consult a TMJ specialist to cure yourself and get rid of the mind-numbing pain.

  5- Not easy to brush

As the growth of wisdom tooth ends up acquiring additional space between your teeth, there is hardly any space left to move along the bristles of your brush. You will put your teeth under further risk as there will be hygiene issues as a result of not brushing or cleaning your teeth properly. Cavities and plague will be accumulated in and around your teeth and gums because of not giving proper attention to hygiene.

Removing a tooth or teeth is an experience most of us are afraid to go through. However, if you start running away from a problem, it will come back to you in a bigger way.

Prevention is better than cure and you must immediately visit a doctor when you detect a problem in your health.

A doctor in the dental clinic in San Jose states that visiting a dentist is a far more daunting task than visiting a regular doctor as they have certain notions in their mind about tooth extraction. You must keep those half-baked beliefs aside and let the doctor cure you of your ailment.