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Impacted Wisdom Teeth - Know about Surgery of Wisdom Teeth

01.07.2008 by Dr John Anne in Health Care

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Dental extractions or Tooth extractions and wisdom tooth surgery are one of the many common oral surgical procedures that are done today. And yes they are done with local anaesthesia nowadays. In fact, there are two choices for your anaesthesia; local anaesthesia and general anaesthesia.

Wisdom tooth surgery or tooth extraction for that matter is so common place that it is a wonder that with modern anaesthesia and equipments available many people are still scared of them! Could it be due to fear of the unknown? Many people imagined dentist to be evil people wielding big, sharp and sinister looking instruments. But honestly, dentists are just human like us! And there are many nice ones around too!

When someone goes for a wisdom tooth surgery, they are normally given 5-7 days of medical leave. This is to allow them time to recuperate and also avoid the embarrassment of facing the public with a swollen face. Most of the time they are not debilitated in any sense and they are able to move around and do their normal daily activities. They however will be on soft diet for a while and probably wont be in too much an appetite to eat.

You can either go to a normal dental surgeon or you can go to an oral maxillofacial surgeon to get your wisdom tooth removed. Both are equally adept in surgery with the oral maxillofacial surgeon a slight upper hand due to their advanced training. Cost wise, the oral maxillofacial surgeon will probably cost more being a specialist and all.

Wisdom tooth surgery is actually part of a wider scope of surgery called dento-alveolar surgery. Any surgery involving tooth in the mouth is termed dento-alveolar surgery and you can have other teeth that may require surgical removal other than your common wisdom tooth. The second most common tooth requiring surgery is arguably the canine which more often than not needs surgical removal. Sometimes cysts are associated with the wisdom tooth or tooth to be removed and these are normally removed together with the tooth.

Wisdom tooth can be erupted, impacted or buried. Erupted wisdom tooth can be simply removed via extraction though in some cases you need surgery to remove them. Impacted wisdom tooth more often than not requires surgical removal and all buried wisdom tooth needs surgery to remove them! The associated degree of impaction will determine the difficulty of removal and the more difficult it is the higher the chance of numbness of the lip, chin and tongue on the side of the wisdom tooth being removed. There is no involvement of motor nerves eg the facial nerve and henceforth movement of the face and speech is not affected. There is also no correlation between wisdom or intelligence with wisdom tooth removal and till proven otherwise that shall remain a myth and an old wife’s tale.

This is a part of our Impacted Tooth Treatment section available at AyurvedicCure.com. For more solutions and remedies visit our Dental Care Guide. If you have any questions or remedies, please post them here as comments. Our visitors want to know what you feel and what you have been doing for this concern. Also don’t forget to bookmark this post!