How painful is it to remove wisdom teeth and what does it depend on?

First, we'll figure out why you need to remove wisdom teeth altogether. After all, they do not always hurt and very often they do not bother. And if so, then why spend money, why make yourself suffer and the dentist?

Or are wisdom teeth capable of harming the body, because they already do not need it?

Do they need us at all?

The fact is that right now the wisdom teeth really do not need the human body. It is unpleasant to call them a remnant of the past, but, according to scientists, in ancient times they were almost every adult person - people ate hard, solid food, and chewing it was a lot of work.

Now the need for them has disappeared, since mankind uses mostly soft and easily chewed food. Yes, and the jaw of a typical homosapiens decreased by 10 cm compared to its ancestor.

And nature understands this - wisdom teeth appear in ever fewer people. But if they do appear, the problems, due to which they have to be removed, are in most cases provided.

So, under what conditions is the removal of wisdom teeth necessary( before making a final decision, be sure to consult a doctor):

1. Incorrect position of such tooth in the oral cavity of .If it is tilted in any direction, then displacement and destruction of the remaining teeth, as well as damage to the mucosa may occur, which is very unpleasant. In addition, such a tooth is simply useless, even for the installation of a bridge.
2. The tooth must be removed, if the jaw lacks the .The wisdom tooth can erupt right in the gum and shift other teeth, which is dangerous.
3. Even if the tooth was not sick, but caries of a severe degree was found on it, it should be removed. Such a tooth can not be cured, it will only interfere and cause unbearable pain.
4. The reason for parting with the "eight" is also pericoronaritis - a disease in which the gingiva swells and pus is formed in them. If it occurs, the tooth is covered with a kind of hood from the mucous membrane. Then there is a free space, where the remains of food can go, and various microbes, and this is fraught with other diseases.
5. And the last is braces .They can not be established if there is a "figure eight", even if it is of the correct form, since such a tooth will interfere with the alignment of other teeth.

It happens difficult, but it's easier. ..

If you still have to remove the tooth, then it becomes necessary to choose a simple or complex removal. In which case do you choose each of them? Let's figure it out:

1. Easy removal of , this is where only forceps and / or elevators are used as surgical instruments. There will not be any incisions of gums, the drilling of a tooth from the bone and the separation of roots. This is a simple operation that is performed in the absence of complications, and the pain from it, as a rule, is not too intense and does not last long.
2. Complicated removal of occurs with the use of all the above tools, and after the operation, the wound is stitched. Then the seams will have to be removed. This is a rather complicated operation, performed with complications associated with cutting through the tooth. The pain from her is usually long and strong - some medicines and, possibly, antibiotic therapy will be prescribed by the doctor.

Painful sensations during operation

Many people wonder if it is painful to remove wisdom teeth? Yes, it really can happen that during the operation, even after local anesthesia, pain will appear. With what it can be connected:

1. First, local anesthesia could not just have time to act , in this case, the pain when removing the wisdom tooth will last one or two minutes, and you can forget about it. At least until the expiration of the injection.
2. Secondly, if a complex removal is performed and the gum is cut , even anesthesia is not capable of drowning out the echoes of pain. There are a lot of nerves in the gums, and their cutting is painful in any case.

But during the operation, most often the pain is not felt at all. Special drugs that are administered to patients by doctors are doing their job well. The main thing is to prepare for the days after the operation, when the anesthesia ceases to function.

Using general anesthesia

It rarely happens that the removal of the wisdom tooth occurs under general anesthesia. Such an operation is performed only by an experienced and qualified doctor and only if there are specific reasons to do this.

And even if the patient has fear of the dentist( if he is not panic), this does not affect the conduct or not of the operation. In addition, before an operation under general anesthesia, the patient's health is monitored by an anesthesiologist and dentist.

They check for possible contraindications to such anesthesia and take a final decision about this

Here is the list of conditions under which general anesthesia is applied:

• the forthcoming operation is very complicated , traumatic and voluminous that the doctor can easily identify by X-ray images;
• in the patient , too severe gag reflex and if this interferes with the operation;
• in the patient there are strong allergic reactions to components of local anesthesia , which is also called a prick in the gum;
• the patient has some mental abnormalities such as oligophrenia ;
• if the patient suffers from panic fear , which refers to dental intervention;if there is an associated child injury;
• if the patient to be treated with has a child and if he can not safely and voluntarily allow an operation.

What awaits the patient after the operation

As already mentioned many times, after the operation, the patient has pain, which can not stop within two weeks( although with a simple removal, the time is much shorter - sometimes you can do it all day).

This pain is associated with direct injury to soft tissue that occurs during surgery.

In the first days after the operation, the pain will be very strong and intense. Then, after a while, the pain will pass and appear less and less often, and then leave at all.

To ease the situation, the dentist can prescribe an anesthetic medication that deems effective for a particular patient. Typically, the role of these drugs are analgesics. You can buy them yourself, without a doctor's prescription at the city pharmacy.

Another way to reduce the level of pain at home is to apply a cold compress to the cheek where the tooth was removed. This is done in the first day after the intervention.

But too long to keep the compress can not - you can supercool the gum. Sometimes you need to take breaks.

It is important to understand when to remove the wisdom tooth and why sometimes the operation is performed using general anesthesia.

Now, if the operation really needs to be done, you need to drop your fears and, with the necessary information, move to the clinic, necessarily choosing a qualified dentist.