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Wisdom teeth: to remove or leave?

FOR: carious monsters

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Wisdom teeth in most cases are surprised caries. It is connected with the fact that because of remote situation in a mouth, hard qualitatively to clean them. For the same reason wisdom teeth it is inconvenient to treat. Besides, these teeth quite often have curve roots and channels which are heavy for sealing up. So dental care of wisdom can take a lot of time and money, unlike other teeth.

FOR: carious monsters

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Quite often the wisdom tooth is located incorrectly, horizontally or inclined in such a way that injures a cheek when chewing. Actually, for chewing this tooth is not especially necessary, but the continuous biting of a cheek and not healing wound on mucous can become the reason of penetration of an undesirable infection.

FOR: bad neighbor

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Sometimes, that during eruption the wisdom tooth puts pressure upon the seventh tooth standing in front that can lead to such effects as enamel destruction nearby of the standing tooth and development of carious process in it. In that case the wisdom tooth should be extracted all the same as treatment of a painful tooth without it will be impossible.

FOR: too closely

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As the wisdom tooth appears much later the others, often it lacks the place for eruption. As a result it begins to restrict other teeth, displacing them to the center, and it can lead to a curvature of all dentition and even change of a bite.

FOR: under a cap

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Sometimes, that even completely cut through wisdom tooth remains as if "under a cap" from a mucous membrane. It is extremely undesirable as between a hood and tooth the space favorable for reproduction of various bacteria is formed there can be an inflammation and hypostasis of mucous. This disease a pericoronitis is called. If it happens, then it is necessary to open a hood, and, most likely, to extract tooth.

AGAINST: same, as all

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The wisdom tooth, as well as other teeth, has the antagonist (for example if it is about the right lower tooth, that is and upper right with which it is closed when chewing). It is full-fledged body which performs all necessary functions. If this tooth is sore, but there is an opportunity to cure it, then, maybe, it is worth making it?

AGAINST: think of the future

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If the patient has no seventh tooth costing ahead of a wisdom tooth, or even the sixth tooth, then there is an opportunity further to fix a hook of a removable prosthesis on the eighth tooth. Though, considering rapid development of modern stomatology, it is quite possible that in several years this method of prosthetics will be a thing of the past.

AGAINST: big difficulties

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Wisdom odontectomy – quite difficult process, besides not cheap and fraught with emergence of various complications. Complications can arise because roots of such teeth often have irregular shape, are strongly bent and can adjoin to a trifacial branch. Roots of upper teeth of wisdom can be in a Highmore's bosom. Besides, as it was already written above, teeth are far and access to them is complicated.

Conclusions

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Undoubtedly, if the wisdom tooth is healthy, performs the main functions and does not cause inconveniences, then it is necessary to keep it. The decision on removal of "eights" should be made on the basis of a number of researches, including not the last role is played here by a x-ray film. And of course, so difficult and responsible process can be entrusted only the qualified specialist.

Whether you know that:

In Great Britain there is a law according to which the surgeon can refuse to do to the patient operation if he smokes or has excess weight. The person has to refuse addictions, and then, perhaps, he will not need an operative measure.

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