Does anyone still have their wisdom teeth?

cocoa Posted: Mar 01, 2005 07:54 PM

Does anyone still have their wisdom teeth?

i still have mine and periodically my gums will get sore and i feel like they are breaking through, but i have one that has come in and it isn't fully in but it is about a quarter in. do i HAVE to get them removed??? i mean, if i can live with the periodic soreness, do i have to get them out???

AndreaLMT Posted: Mar 01, 2005 07:57 PM

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OMG!!!! SO weird that u are bringing this up!!!!
My bottom wisdom tooth has been coming out the past few days (I'm teething hehe) & I can even see it a bit!!!
Problem...my bottom ones are impacted (coming up sideways), so this is bad news.
I just want to forget about it & hope it goes away.
I feel for ya...I'm afraid to get them removed!!!

newnybride2be Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:05 PM

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I would check with your dentist. I have my bottom ones and my dentist told me that they came in pretty straight, so it doesnt look like hell have to remove them. He said hell just keep checking to make sure they are good.

mrswask Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:18 PM

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Posted by cocoa

i still have mine and periodically my gums will get sore and i feel like they are breaking through, but i have one that has come in and it isn't fully in but it is about a quarter in. do i HAVE to get them removed??? i mean, if i can live with the periodic soreness, do i have to get them out???

I had the same exact thing - they gums would hurt every few months or so as they were coming in. I decided to get one of them about 2 months before the wedding because it was the one that would periodically bother me the most and I didn't want anything happeneing near the wedding or on the honeymoon. It was a b i t c h getting it out and I was in a lot of pain and I got dry rot after - so it was a pretty bad ordeal - but it's out, gone, that's it. I still have the other three and they have never bothered me.

AndreaLMT Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:20 PM

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Posted by mrswask

Posted by cocoa

i still have mine and periodically my gums will get sore and i feel like they are breaking through, but i have one that has come in and it isn't fully in but it is about a quarter in. do i HAVE to get them removed??? i mean, if i can live with the periodic soreness, do i have to get them out???

I had the same exact thing - they gums would hurt every few months or so as they were coming in. I decided to get one of them about 2 months before the wedding because it was the one that would periodically bother me the most and I didn't want anything happeneing near the wedding or on the honeymoon. It was a b i t c h getting it out and I was in a lot of pain and I got dry rot after - so it was a pretty bad ordeal - but it's out, gone, that's it. I still have the other three and they have never bothered me.

Thanks, you just encouraged me NOT to go to the Dentist!!!

june262004 Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:22 PM

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I have all of mine. I had Braces and they pulled 4 teeth alltogether. One on each side top and bottom. When I went to the dentist he was like you should get ure wisdom teeth pulled. You could catch a piece of tooth under the gum and it will hurt a lot blah blah blah. He told my DH the same thing like 3 years ago so my DH got them all pulled. Im not sure what to do One is fully in the others have broken through.

Danielle Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:34 PM

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I had one that was breaking through like you said and it stayed like that for about a year, it just stopped coming in. So it was half in and half out and 3 days before i started student teaching, it got infected and had to come out!

Since I am a big baby, the oral surgeon (who had done another procedure on me on a different tooth just 3 months before-I have VERY bad luck with teeth) told me that since they were all impacted, i should just have all four done at once because I probably wouldn't come back until they were ALL infected!

So I had it done, missed the first few days of student teaching. I don't recommend that you wait until it gets infected, because it made it SO MUCH WORSE. I have several friends who had theirs out without a problem, one even went to a party that night!

Mine took 2 hours of surgery, a LOT of bruising and swelling on top of my infection swelling...

Go to a dentist. I hate them, but it would have been SO much better had I gone earlier.

cocoa Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:36 PM

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my mom still has hers...in fact, everyone in my family pretty much has them. i will do anything to avoid dentil work. ugh!!! dh once told me that if i leave them, they could grow into my brain and i'd die. i still don't know if i am to believe him wisdom teeth can't kill you right???

Goldi1021 Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:39 PM

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I had mine out when I was 16. If you HAVE to have them out, do them all at once or you will never go back to do the others.

BriBri529 Posted: Mar 01, 2005 08:40 PM

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Posted by cocoa

i still have mine and periodically my gums will get sore and i feel like they are breaking through, but i have one that has come in and it isn't fully in but it is about a quarter in. do i HAVE to get them removed??? i mean, if i can live with the periodic soreness, do i have to get them out???

I am just waiting until something happens like an absess or something . . . I so don't want to do it

luvsbob4603 Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:00 PM

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same here i have my bottom one coming out too and its also impacted but i do have to get mine pulled yuk!

marymoon Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:10 PM

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I've had that EXACT same thing for years. Every fe months it'll hurt and feel like they're breaking throgh and then fine. Twice I've had infections because of the gum overlapping the tooth ..ick..and that was painful, but the dentists said as long as the infection cleared I'd be fine. I've had that for YEARS and no problems whatsoever and I don't plan on getting them extracted unless I HAVE to

LaurenluvsTJ Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:20 PM

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I got them all out last year. It really wasn't too bad.

1017Bride Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:40 PM

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Mine came in a few years back and they didn't hurt and I didnt' need them to be taken out. I think it varies on the person.

palebride Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:44 PM

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mine came in and don't hurt at all
when i was younger, i had terrible problems with my teeth and wound up having 3 surgeries and 19 teeth taken out, most of them baby teeth.
but they left a lot of room in my mouth, so i can keep my wisdom

lvdolphins Posted: Mar 01, 2005 09:47 PM

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I have 3 of 4! My last one only came in 1/2 way then became impacted. I had it removed on an emergency basis..I was talking like 'Cindy Brady' and it was painful. My other 3 came in with no problem @ all.

Bebalina Posted: Mar 05, 2005 12:29 PM

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I just got my top and bottom ones pulled on my left side yesterday. I didnt feel anything during the process. It wasn't so bad. I just felt a lot of pain when the numbness wore off yest, and then i took a pain killer and I was asleep.
It still hurts today but not so bad.

cjb88 Posted: Mar 05, 2005 12:32 PM

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i still have mine too!! One is starting to come in... it's already broken through the gum, but i don't think it is coming in straight... I asked my dentisit about it... and he said there are chances that infection can get under there, but since im a teacher to definately wait for the summer and visit an oral surgeon to get definate advice on what to do...

im a baby too and dont want to go!! I hate the dentisit more than the scary doctor!!! (i need to grow up huh?)

CheeChee Posted: Mar 05, 2005 12:34 PM

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I never grew any. haha sounds funny. My dentist took xrays last year and said they dont even show up on the xrays. He told me i am one of the few lucky ones who never got any!!!

VickiC Posted: Mar 05, 2005 03:21 PM

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Posted by marymoon

I've had that EXACT same thing for years. Every few months it'll hurt and feel like they're breaking through and then fine. Twice I've had infections because of the gum overlapping the tooth ..ick..and that was painful, but the dentists said as long as the infection cleared I'd be fine. I've had that for YEARS and no problems whatsoever and I don't plan on getting them extracted unless I HAVE to

This is me exactly. My dentist said that he could snip the skin if it gets infected again, and as long as I have room in my mouth, there is no need to take them out unless they all become really infected.