Wisdom Teeth: Infection and Possibly Pointless Extraction?!
Question: Wisdom Teeth: Infection and Possibly Pointless Extraction?
Last year he took X-rays and told me there would be no need for extraction and that everything was fine and this infection was simply the skin around the tooth (from it pushing it's way up), I still have a flap of skin partly over the tooth which I keep biting (which he doesn't want to remove). The gums around my tooth were red and a little swollen, partly from biting the skin flap but partly from the infection.
The tooth itself didn't hurt, just the skin around it, from what I've heard an abscess makes the tooth itself hurt as well.
He is pretty gun-hoe when it comes to pulling teeth and having wisdom teeth taken out (since we don't need them according to him).
I also recently started inhalers for asthma which have been drying my mouth out big time, I'm very sure that was also a part of the infection since he told me to use a certain mouthwash because bacteria grows easier.
Anyone ever experience this? He simply decided it was an abscess and never really looked into it besides just looking at my tooth and giving me the prescription. I'm going to get a second opinion, but any advice/personal stories that might help would be nice. The bottom tooth has a very long root which he said might cause some troubles with coming out, I really don't want to go through that for no reason.
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I had never gotten mine removed either since they grew in straight and everything, but the dentist would always say to take em out cuz they're hard to brush and could "crowd" your teeth. I brushed him off and 10 years later (27 yrs old) I was eating something and my lower wisdom tooth on one side cracked in half. I had never had any pain or anything but after it broke, boy it was terrible. It hurt so bad i couldn't even sleep. Long story short, in the long run they will have to be removed so just get it taken care of now. It will be more expensive an harder to have them removed the longer you put it off, and honestly once they're gone you won't even notice