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LoveKettle
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Wha? Help me with my confusion..anyone else had the opposite tooth out to the one that hurt??
This sounds strange, but makes sense, yet doesn't.
I havn't read anything about this on this forum anywhere, either.
My dentist, after examining my mouth, has informed me I have all 4 wisdom teeth coming through. The bottom two are impacted. I had an infection in the left lower tooth a few months back, but it cleared up, it's been 100% FINE since then.
More recently, I got a less severe but on-off-for-weeks infection in my RIGHT lower wisdom tooth.
He says they are mirror images of one another, with one crucial difference - the exact position of my lower right wisdom tooth makes it much harder to clean (its really "tight"), and the upper wisdom tooth opposite it is limiting its room, so those two factors mean it keeps getting food trapped in it and irritated, and I can't remedy it with "good oral hygiene" like I had "the other side".
So he's removing the TOP right wisdom tooth, because apparantly that's his favoured second line of defence, the first line being better cleaning techniques, the third one being to remove it, which apparantly wouldn't be a great option because its impacted could be complicated etc etc.
Now...is this "right?" It does kind of make sense, if you took out the opposite (which is a ten minute job, cheaper/less complicated) tooth..that'll give the other one more room and make it less infection prone?
He was not happy that the NHS dentist thought she could just yank out my impacted wisdom tooth in 10 minutes!
But this seems weird to me. But then again, I'm not a dentist. And I trust him. Well I think I do. He says he's used this strategy with good results before and its the simplest way to treat a grumbling lower impacted wisdom tooth.
anyone had this ???
I've therefore had two completely contradictory opinions so I'm confused
..but I'm going to have the top one out anyway, because its grumbling a bit like the bottom one is anyway, so I'd be pleased to be rid of it.
This sounds strange, but makes sense, yet doesn't.
I havn't read anything about this on this forum anywhere, either.
My dentist, after examining my mouth, has informed me I have all 4 wisdom teeth coming through. The bottom two are impacted. I had an infection in the left lower tooth a few months back, but it cleared up, it's been 100% FINE since then.
More recently, I got a less severe but on-off-for-weeks infection in my RIGHT lower wisdom tooth.
He says they are mirror images of one another, with one crucial difference - the exact position of my lower right wisdom tooth makes it much harder to clean (its really "tight"), and the upper wisdom tooth opposite it is limiting its room, so those two factors mean it keeps getting food trapped in it and irritated, and I can't remedy it with "good oral hygiene" like I had "the other side".
So he's removing the TOP right wisdom tooth, because apparantly that's his favoured second line of defence, the first line being better cleaning techniques, the third one being to remove it, which apparantly wouldn't be a great option because its impacted could be complicated etc etc.
Now...is this "right?" It does kind of make sense, if you took out the opposite (which is a ten minute job, cheaper/less complicated) tooth..that'll give the other one more room and make it less infection prone?
He was not happy that the NHS dentist thought she could just yank out my impacted wisdom tooth in 10 minutes!
But this seems weird to me. But then again, I'm not a dentist. And I trust him. Well I think I do. He says he's used this strategy with good results before and its the simplest way to treat a grumbling lower impacted wisdom tooth.
anyone had this ???
I've therefore had two completely contradictory opinions so I'm confused
..but I'm going to have the top one out anyway, because its grumbling a bit like the bottom one is anyway, so I'd be pleased to be rid of it.
