How to handle when wisdom teeth 'grow wild'?

Teeth No. 8 or even wisdom teeth often cause problems such as worms, deviations, painful infections.

Wisdom teeth are the last teeth to grow on the jaw and have different time of growth compared to teeth before 10-15 years. This tooth appears at the time we enter adulthood, from 17 to 25 years old. A few cases grow when they are 30 years old, so they are called wisdom teeth.

When wisdom teeth grow, we often experience many different symptoms. There are some cases of pain, fissure or festering. Others have an erectile, submerged tooth that leads to bone marrow pain, jaw angle inflammation and many other serious complications. Many patients are anxious to go to the hospital so that the doctor can advise how to handle 'wild' teeth.

Need to brush your teeth thoroughly, clean area 8 teeth and use dental floss to clean the innermost teeth.

For a long time, when wisdom teeth have not yet appeared, our ability to chew still occurs normally. However, quite a lot of people have trouble when the wisdom tooth is "sleeping" in the jaw suddenly wakes up. Most wisdom teeth grow when the jaw is tight, the thickening of the gums makes teeth become more difficult and cause deviation, underground, stabbing teeth . This is the main reason leading to inflammation. In place of birth pain, severe swelling, even pus may discharge, bad breath and jaw movement are limited.

When there are abnormal signs in wisdom teething areas such as repetitive infections, cysts, adjacent teeth affected, gingivitis ulcers, you should immediately go to the dentist for X-rays. teeth. From there, doctors will make a diagnosis of your dental condition and decide on keeping or removing this tooth.

According to Dr. Andrew HF Tsang, Westcoast dental general manager, it is best that we should remove teeth because this tooth does not seem to have much effect in chewing and grinding food. There are people who do not have pain when they have wisdom teeth, but they cannot clean their teeth because their wisdom teeth are located too deep in the jaw cavity. This can lead to tooth decay, affect other teeth, and the treatment for this problem is equally complicated.

In addition, another important note is that we absolutely must not extract teeth when there is an infection, to avoid possible septic complications . If an infection is found, the patient needs antibiotic treatment and oral antiseptic as instructed by qualified doctors.

The dentist's advice is to brush your teeth thoroughly, clean the tooth area 8 and use dental floss to clean the innermost teeth. When there are signs of wisdom toothache, you need to see a dentist to monitor, treat or need to decide to spit.