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Hello,
I have been looking at your website for quite some time now and it helped me make my first visit to a dentist since I was a child when I had an abcess last month. I am currently 46 years old. Thank you so much for this site.
I have since been to this dentist 6 times and have had one extraction of root remnant and full deep cleaning as well as xrays all in the last month. I was doing very with all of this until I was told yesterday that I need to see an oral surgeon for extraction of at least 3 wisdom teeth as well as 2 other root remnants and a parital tooth. Needless to say I was devastated as I've just become comfortable with their environment. I am told that after the extractions I will only need one filling which is not urgent and will then need to look into filling the gaps caused by the extraction, so all else is not too bad.
The problem is that I'm not sure that I'm willing to have the wisdom teeth out as my understanding is that it can be complicated at my age. Even if I do have them out I don't want this work all done at one time and would prefer to see only one dentist who can take care of all of my needs in a way that I'm comfortable with over time.
Can you please provide information or a link with information on wisdom tooth extraction. Is it always necessary to have them all out at once? Could we not do one quadrant at a time for example as they did with the cleaning? What about complications at my age?
Thanks LJS
I have been looking at your website for quite some time now and it helped me make my first visit to a dentist since I was a child when I had an abcess last month. I am currently 46 years old. Thank you so much for this site.
I have since been to this dentist 6 times and have had one extraction of root remnant and full deep cleaning as well as xrays all in the last month. I was doing very with all of this until I was told yesterday that I need to see an oral surgeon for extraction of at least 3 wisdom teeth as well as 2 other root remnants and a parital tooth. Needless to say I was devastated as I've just become comfortable with their environment. I am told that after the extractions I will only need one filling which is not urgent and will then need to look into filling the gaps caused by the extraction, so all else is not too bad.
The problem is that I'm not sure that I'm willing to have the wisdom teeth out as my understanding is that it can be complicated at my age. Even if I do have them out I don't want this work all done at one time and would prefer to see only one dentist who can take care of all of my needs in a way that I'm comfortable with over time.
Can you please provide information or a link with information on wisdom tooth extraction. Is it always necessary to have them all out at once? Could we not do one quadrant at a time for example as they did with the cleaning? What about complications at my age?
Thanks LJS