Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom Teeth

Male1: Wisdom teeth, why do we have them and why do we have to remove them?

Male2: Well, wisdom teeth are your third molars. Everybody got one, two, and three molars, the first, second, and third molars. The first molars come in at six years of age. The second molars come in at 12 years of age, and the third molars come in around 16 to 18 and oddly enough called wisdom teeth. Supposedly when you find it at the age when you have some wisdom. I am not sure that that is how they got called that but I am not sure that that is the appropriate anatomic, 18-year-olds had wisdom. But anyway that is when you need them out.

What happens is there is often not enough room for those last seven molars to fully erupt or develop in the mouth and so they are half in and half out and what happens is they get infected, they get a variety of different things that can grow around them like cyst or little sacs to go on with the fluid and they can get decayed because they are half in and half out. They are in a situation where you can not brush them. They are in a situation where, because there is not enough room, they cause irritation or trauma. So there is a whole hostile reason that you want them out and oral surgeons when their specialty is, that they take, that they are very, very good in taking out wisdom teeth. They have the capabilities to sedate people in their office and make what is otherwise could be a very painful procedure a very simple and very pleasant procedure because you are asleep, you do not feel anything and they do it and they can minimize the post operative problems.


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