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health advisory Hospital Dentists Yu 2007-11-11 18:18:50

i went to the dentist today to ask about my wisdom teeth, one is particularly hurting (which is going to have to be removed) which is also making my throat a bit sore and i cant open my mouth wide, he said it is not infected (i get this quite alot when theyre trying to push through) so why is so painful and what causes this pain???

Answer:

It's the teeth's eruption process that's causing the pain and will continue sometimes even after they erupt. They are pushing the teeth that are in front of them, through layers of tissue trying to find their place. The wisdom teeth or 3rd molars have the smallest root of all the teeth in our dentition. The major problem is that they are so close to the where the upper and lower jaws meet, with a very small, tight space to erupt into. It's just not an adequate space for them to erupt into. Your teeth continue throughout your life to continue to erupt, what stops them is when the upper and lower touch each other. The wisdom teeth are in a tight space and usually don't erupt all of the way due to this close space between upper and lower and the jaw structure and it鈥榮 function. This causes a problem; with the tooth being very short, there is usually a small flap of tissue that covers the distal end after eruption, this tissue keeps it sore and a bacteria and food trap, it is literally impossible for a patient to keep clean even with the most diligent brushing and flossing, which makes it more susceptible to decay and abscess. Most dentists prefer to have them extracted due to the potential problems they create. Our upper and lower arch is just too short to hold all the teeth. I鈥檝e heard some say that the wisdom tooth won鈥檛 even be a bud in a hundred years or so, much like the fusion of our lower vertebra at the coccyx. It鈥檚 not necessary so nature will just remove it, similar to what your dentist is advising you to do now. Hope I鈥檝e been of some help in explaining this to you and that you鈥檒l go ahead and have them removed. It will save you a lot of trouble and pain in the years to come. Good luck!

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wisdom teeth are a lot bigger then the rest of are teeth an they have to come up in a very small gap an that can cause a lot of pain ..

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It could be because it is pushing on adjacent teeth. More likely though is the pain caused by the stretching and then the breaking thru of the skin of your gums. Mine bothered me alot, don't get grossed out, as it got ready to break thru i bit down hard on a wooden spoon handle and made it break thru then. After that it was a healing pain. Mine actually grew all the way in, they were slanted out, after nearly 2 years i had them pulled. Hope you find this helpful.

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Because theres no space for molar teeth. they tend to push adjacent teeth, alveolar bone and/or other structures of the mouth. Sometimes they even cause something called pericoronal inflamation which hurts.

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