Protect Your Alignment With Wisdom Tooth Imagery
For many teens and young adults, the last molars start to develop right after they have recently completed orthodontic improvement, either with braces or clear aligners. Take the necessary steps to keep your smile safe, as your wisdom teeth can undo all of that hard work. Stick to your schedule of examinations so that you can discuss wisdom tooth extraction before your smile starts to change.
Tracking Your Wisdom Teeth Can Help You Prevent Tooth Decay
When your wisdom teeth change the way your smile sits on your oral ridge, it can cause more than just cosmetic damage. The areas where crowding and overlapping starts to occur can become areas in which bacteria can thrive, leading to a harmful buildup of plaque and tartar. Make the effort in your oral health by keeping a close eye on the growth of your final set of molars!
When Wisdom Tooth Extraction Becomes A Need
If your dentist gives you a diagnosis that requires the removal of your third and final set of molars, it is important to take this process seriously. By waiting to undergo treatment, you could be allowing this last set of teeth to do damage within your mouth. Wisdom tooth extraction could be the right move to protect your alignment, and your oral health, from the harm of problem molar development.
Learn More About Your Wisdom Teeth With Dr. Maxey
The growth of your wisdom teeth can cause significant harm to your smile. Take the time to schedule an appointment with Dr. Maxey, DDS for imagery and examinations to track the development of your last set of molars. If an extraction is necessary to keep you safe, our team can help you to understand the process. Give us a call at our Grand Prairie, TX office today at 972-264-5795, and be proactive in finding a wisdom tooth solution!
From Our Blog:
The majority of the human species are born with a designated number of teeth for their lifetime. As infants and toddlers, the primary teeth arrive … twenty in all. As those teeth fall out, they make way for the permanent teeth that are to carry us through life. There are 32 permanent teeth with the wisdom teeth being the last to come in.
Our heredity often dictates how much jaw space we will have, as well as the size of our permanent teeth. When jaw space is limited or teeth are a little large, having enough room for all the teeth to erupt without overcrowding can be challenging. Read More…
Third molars, more commonly referred to as wisdom teeth, are the very back teeth on both sides of the upper and lower arches. In some patients, these teeth never emerge. Others may have more than four wisdom teeth. Many patients can go through life without experiencing any problems with their wisdom teeth allowing them to be left alone.
However, many patients are not so fortunate and are faced with problems such as:
Overcrowding – When the wisdom teeth erupt, quite often the jaw cannot accommodate all permanent teeth. A malocclusion may occur forcing the teeth out of position to try to make room creating an over bite, under bite or cross bite. In an effort to prevent this from happening, the dentist may recommend removing the third molars. Read More…
Wisdom teeth problems such as impactions often inflict pain on patients, and so many people with issues with wisdom teeth have them removed by a dentist. Wisdom teeth serve no real purpose in our mouths now as the evolutionary cycle has seen our jawbone and mouth become smaller and better formed.
Impacted wisdom teeth occur when there is insufficient room to allow the wisdom teeth to successfully emerge into the patient’s mouth. This may result in pressure being applied to other existing teeth, while in other cases, the wisdom tooth may not fully emerge; instead creating pockets below the gum tissue where bacteria can thrive, leading eventually to tooth decay and other dental issues. Read More…
