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As Justė Strups, an oral surgeon at Smile Academy dental clinic, told the media, mental teeth erupt around the age of 17-22, but they can erupt much later. In your practice, there has been a case where a seventy-year-old patient had a mental tooth erupted.
According to scientists, due to diet change and consumption of processed foods, mental teeth become unnecessary for a person to ensure chewing function and should disappear completely over time. About 20 percent of the human population no longer has these tooth buds.
A large part of humanity is experiencing signs of inflammation of the mental teeth, such as pain, swelling, shortness of breath. The most common ailments that dentists notice are an abnormal position of the tooth, a lack of space in the dental arch that causes the mental teeth not to erupt at all or to erode crookedly. In addition, mental teeth are difficult to clean, they accumulate faster due to the accumulation of plaque.
Discomfort with mental teeth begins as they germinate. If you experience pain or bleeding gums, doctors advise you to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and to clean the sore area very carefully.
An elderly patient at the dentist.
“Patients are afraid to clean because they are bleeding. This is how we enter the vicious cycle: the inflammation progresses and the pain and bleeding do not stop. As a general rule, we recommend that patients use only one toothbrush and rinse with 0.12% chlorhexidine solution during germination, but not for more than 2 weeks, ”said the oral surgeon, adding that home remedies alone They alone will not be enough for the mental teeth. . To assess the situation, it is advisable to consult a dentist or oral hygienist to professionally remove inflammatory factors and, in case of recurrence, an appointment for an extraction procedure.
In the rare cases where the mental teeth, also called third molars, germinate correctly and are useful, perform the chewing function perfectly, often leading to problems with the adjacent second molars. According to the research, more than 25 percent of cases develop cavities on the distal surface of the second molar in addition to the chin, and in up to 37 percent of cases, the peripheral bone is felt around the second molars. Therefore, it is necessary to visit a dentist or oral hygienist regularly, to assess the condition even of the already erupted adjacent and mental teeth and surrounding tissues.
Wisdom teeth
Still, don’t be surprised if your dentist recommends extracting your mental teeth.
“Modern dental practice tries to preserve the natural tooth for as long as possible by applying the most modern treatments. Treatment (filling) of a mental defective tooth with incompletely eruption is impossible. Treatment of the gums can temporarily relieve inflammation of the gums, but only through the surgical removal of the tooth itself is the problem completely eliminated and it does not recur. It is necessary to eliminate it even more if we face mental root fractures, recurrent inflammations, abscesses, odontogenic cysts “, said J Strups.
Asymptomatic mental tooth extraction is also done in order to straighten the teeth to create more space in the jaws.
What is the best time for preventive removal? According to the researchers, the lowest risk of complications is in the extraction of patients aged 15 to 25 years, when at least two-thirds of the roots of mental teeth have formed, a greater distance to the nerve canal of the lower jaw, bone more softer and faster healing. However, it is necessary to assess the physical and emotional maturity of each patient individually. For the analysis and treatment of the situation, patients are referred to a specialist: oral surgeon.
“Surgical removal of third molars is an intervention that, like any operation in the mouth, carries some risk. But it is much smaller when properly prepared. We apply a clinical and radiological examination of the patient, we discuss the situation individually with each patient and, if they are a minor, with a person who represents their interests. Local anesthesia is sufficient to extract a mental tooth, but in the clinic we have the opportunity to surgically extract mental teeth using various methods of anesthesia, thus protecting patients from pain and negative emotions, ”said oral surgeon Justė Strups.
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