Got BOTH inferior wisdom teeth growing horizontally. Scratch that. Fully grown, but pushing forward a bit. Doctors said I have a 30% chance of losing sensibility in lips if I agree to get operated. What do? I heard it's pretty dangerous to keep them, but also to remove them.
Is this an evolutionary fuckup?
Yes, but so is the fact that we eat through the same hole we breath through, and thus choke to death from time to time, and then some dickhead decided it'd be a good idea to run our eustachian tubes through our nose to our ears so we get ear head splitting ear aches every other time we get sick (why does mucus go out that way anyway?)... and don't get me started on how vulnerable this spine is and that whole needing to sleep near half the day away, this delicate endocrine system that just piles on fat if you just get it slightly out of whack, yet craves carbs like nothing else regardless of your activity level, and all these joints wearing out... And aging in general.
Basically, if it doesn't stop you from breeding, or involves fundamental structural changes, it ain't getting fixed by nature anytime soon.
Put it on the checklist of things to fix when we start CRISPR'ing our babies.
Wisdom tooth extraction is a huge scam.
Are they causing pain? Making it difficult to eat?
I had that done without any problems - but I dun think the doc warned me of 30% of nuttin. They were impacted enough that they full on knocked me out though.
That said, I've read that it often isn't required, often done as a preventative measure. It depends on the situation though. In my case it was pretty bad - they'd already cased two molars to crack and an abscess - so on top of the tooth removal I had to get some implants done. Sadly, they did not knock me out for that bit.
Get a second opinion about the 30% chance of losing sensibility in lips. I had one of my wisdom teeth groving horizontally and the doctor only said that the operation can couse my lips to be numb for a few months (but event that didn't happend)
I also had to make a micro computer tomography of my teeth to extract it safly (becouse of the close proximity of a nerve system and artery, but the operation was considerd safe). Maybe your doctor just sucks at what he do?
Monitoring thread.
Mine are also completely horizontal, my dentist keeps bugging me to get them removed, but I dint want to get some useless operation if they arnt bothering me
Second opinion said let it grow, but I heard that if it gets infected it will seriously fuck your shit up.
Only thing it's doing is making my gums bleed because it's trying to push, but no other problems.
They said it's touching the nerve and it could be dangerous to pull it out, but won't leaving it there be dangerous for the nerve as well?
Then don't. Dentists have been telling me for the last 25 years that if I didn't have my wisdom teeth extracted RIGHT THE FUCK THEN, they would crowd my other teeth, cause cavities, damage my nerves, crash the stock market, punch a hole in the ozone and possibly end life on Earth as we know it. Of course, when I didn't have dental insurance they just said "Nah, looks good. We'll wait and see.".
My wife does billing for a rural health clinic that has two dentists on staff. They do about 20 wisdom tooth extractions per month out of a patient load of 400+. Even the dentists there will say that elective wisdom tooth extractions are a scam.
> if it gets infected
Antibiotics are a thing now. If your shit gets infected, get medicine and then the surgery.