Anhui Provincial Hospital Stomatology Center, deputy chief physician Zhou Yu
There are 32 permanent teeth in human teeth, and the last 4 eyelids are located at the rear of the dental arch, which often erupts at the age of 16-24, so there is a 'wisdom tooth' .Many people's wisdom teeth only appear in half Stop growing, revealing a little crown, crookedly in front of a large molars, can not all eruption, causing health problems.
Pericoronitis occurred. Wisdom tooth germination, the majority of people have almost completed the development of jaw bone, there is not enough space to accommodate the tooth, so that the growth of the direction of skew or horizontal growth, the so-called 'impacted teeth.' Some wisdom teeth deep alveolar, there Can not be cleaned to the dead ends, easy to accumulate food debris and bacteria, resulting in tooth decay, crowns around the tooth crown, cysts, cellulitis.When tired of getting angry or resistance decreased, local bacterial virulence increased, can cause wisdom tooth crown Zhou Yan's acute attack, manifested as swelling and pain.
Lead to dental caries. Some patients with wisdom teeth, although not inflamed, but often septal, light caused by bad breath, severe cases caused by cervical decay near the second molar. Impacted teeth can not establish normal occlusion relationship with the maxillary teeth, leading to temporomandibular joint snapping , Mouth pain, molars and other night.
Cause missing dentition. If there is not enough space for wisdom teeth to grow, severe gingival swelling can occur and the teeth will continue to grow hard to withstand the adjacent teeth, resulting in skewed skewed crowns and uneven dentition.
If the wisdom teeth repeated episodes of pericoronitis, frequent teeth, you need to unplug it. Tooth extraction gums before see if there is inflammation, if inflammation of the first two or three days to eat anti-inflammatory drugs; avoid female physiological period, so as to avoid bleeding more than recommended afternoon Tooth extraction, after pulling do not eat. Pull the teeth after bite cotton about half an hour to 40 minutes you can spit it out, do not gargle, 24 hours before you can brush your teeth.If the obvious discomfort after tooth extraction, must be promptly to the regular hospital .
