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if you do remove your wisdom teeth, go to an oral surgeon, not to a regular multi-tasking dentist.

They can tell you how difficult or not extraction will be from looking at X-rays. They will know if your teeth will require fragmentation or not, and how likely you are to have consequences of nerve damage. They see nerves on the X-ray film, too.

If you do remove your WT, don't do all four at the same time. Do one side, then later, the other. Reason for this - it's bloody hard to eat if you can't use either side of your mouth. Expect the holes from the removed teeth to close up in 2-8 months, gradually.

For non-complicated removal (no fragmentation needed), most people don't need more than just a simple shot in the gum for anestesia. If you are nervous, ask for the nitric oxide, that'll keep you happy! B)

Pros to removing WT: 1. Less of teeth to rot in your mouth and to cause pain, less bacteria can hide behind WT in the gum pockets.

2. If you are to remove your WT within your lifetime, recovery is easier when you are young. WT grow their roots deeper with age.

Cons: within next 5-10 years stem sell tooth implants will be available. They are real teeth made from your own stem cells derived from your own teeth. WT are excellent source of stem cells and they have to be pulled and ground up to grow the new teeth. You may want to keep your WT until you need them for implants.

Bottom line - if your WT don't bother you and they are healthy, keep them :) Not all dentist are up on new research, so they will recommend what they were taught to recommend 20 years ago.

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Hi Guys,

I'm a dentist and we do recommend to have wisdom teeth taken out if they are sitting in weird angles because sooner or later they will push on your teeth and cause crowding. Also, if the tooth is partially erupted it may be hard to clean in that area, therefore making the tooth in front of it more susceptible to cavities and, ofcourse, inflammation of the gums around the tooth itself. I had all mine taken out when I was 24 while I was sedated and I didn't feel a thing. The healing is a bit more painful but its its not horrible. If you have a big enough jaw where the wisdoms can sit just like the other molars do, then you don't need to take them out, but if you don't have room for them to come in, then get them extracted. I hope that helps!

Yes, it helps. Thank you :)

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Not all dentist are up on new research, so they will recommend what they were taught to recommend 20 years ago.

The dentist who doesn't think my wisdom are a problem is a few years older than the one who thinks it is. Both are NYU dentistry alums, one 1985 and the other 1988.

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If you do remove your WT, don't do all four at the same time. Do one side, then later, the other. Reason for this - it's bloody hard to eat if you can't use either side of your mouth. Expect the holes from the removed teeth to close up in 2-8 months, gradually.

To each his own.....I did the 2+2 plan and would not recommend that to my worst enemy....A miserable experience indeed x 2.....

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To each his own.....I did the 2+2 plan and would not recommend that to my worst enemy....A miserable experience indeed x 2.....

Agreed. I figured if it went poorly they would have a hard time for me to come back a second time. I liked getting the recovery over at one time.

You have to eat small bits of food anyways while recovering. Why go through that twice.

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generalization did not work out :unsure:

I had my WT removed from one side and I will have to get rid of one more (because it has a large cavity)...

One was easy, the other one had to be fragmented.

My dentist was recommending to pull all of them, until I told him about that stem cell research, then he looked it up himself and agreed that one of my wisdom teeth can be saved.

The dentist who doesn't think my wisdom are a problem is a few years older than the one who thinks it is. Both are NYU dentistry alums, one 1985 and the other 1988.
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My recovery was alright. I was eating soup the same day and solids after two days. That's why I was not afraid to go back :)

I had them pulled one by one :P

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QUOTE (alienlovechild @ Jan 23 2010, 08:58 PM)

I need to have my wife drive me from the dentist's office which may be scary when I'm drugged.

Why would that be scary?

She rarely drives especially now during her last trimester. I don't to get a paranoid feeling while she's behind the wheel nor so drugged up I can't warn her about hazards.

The dentist said he'd heard that fear before from patients.

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I have only two and there are not angled nor impacted. Every dentist in Germany said to leave them alone. The first guy in San Fran wanted to remove them and put bone grafts in there. All that guy wanted was $$$$$. All other dentists I saw afterward said to leave those perfectly healthy teeth alone!!! With dentists, I would always get a second opinion. I got lied to and treated poorly by that guy and I know tons of people who have been told they have like 10 cavities and they get a second opinion and everything seems fine. Lots of liars out there.

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I had mine taken out all at one time when I was around 24. Mine weren't giving me any trouble, but

I was told the longer you wait the more likely you would have problems taking them out

The things I remember about the removal of mine were that when I showed up for the appointment they had no record of my appointment, so they had to fit me in, but had no time to let me lay around, so the oral surgeon just numbed my mouth and went to work. The other was that my mother had taken me there and while she was in the pharmacy getting the pain and antibiotic medicine the novocain had wore off. Boy was I happy to get my hands on the pain medicine,

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I am in my mid-50s and I have all 4 of my wisdom teeth. They are healthy and have never caused me any issues. Yes, I am aware of using them to chew as well.

Talk with the dentist who said to leave them and find out why he says so. Compare it with the reason given by the dentist who says to remove them. Ask the first dentist why there is a discrepancy in the advice. If he doesn't think they are going to cause you any problems, then leave them alone. If they are not causing you any problems then I would be concerned about the dentist saying to take them out. I have had a lot of procedures recommended to me by dentists here - not necessary for my dental health but more for the dentist's healthy pocketbook. If it ain't broke, don't try to 'fix' it. If it is broke, then that is a different story.

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Obviously the OP was born without wisdom.......................................................................tee

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