These rumors about wisdom teeth, you must know!

Wisdom teeth inflamed, ah, what a painful realization!

During a May Day holiday, do you stay up late, drink alcohol, eat skewers, and have a good life? But after the festival, I suddenly found that the gums were swollen and painful, the mouth could not be opened, and even the face was swollen like an egg in the mouth, and I couldn't help sighing to myself, hey! Wisdom teeth are inflamed again!

In this issue of the Youth League Health Class, let's talk about wisdom teeth!

01

Why are wisdom teeth often inflamed?

With the development and progress of society, human beings no longer need so many teeth to chew food. The jawbone is gradually shrinking and the number of teeth is decreasing, but the rate of tooth decay is relatively slow, and the direct result is that wisdom teeth cannot fully erupt.

During the growth of wisdom teeth, there will be a lot of food debris hidden between the pulp and teeth covering the wisdom teeth. In addition, the wisdom teeth are located at the back, and the toothbrush cannot be brushed, and the gums will be repeatedly red, swollen and painful due to inflammation.

The triangular area formed by the wisdom tooth and the previous tooth will often suffer from food shortages. After time fermentation, the adjacent teeth in front will be decayed and further developed into pulpitis, and the alveolar bone in this part will gradually gradually develop. absorption, resulting in loosening of adjacent teeth.

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How do doctors pull wisdom teeth?

After so many tortures, you finally mustered up the courage to pull your teeth. Before you pull a tooth, you think the doctor pulls the tooth like this: pliers, collar, hammer.

In fact, the doctor will give you anesthesia before the tooth extraction. When half of your lips and tongue become numb, the tooth extraction officially begins.

The doctor will first use a scalpel to cut the gums covering the teeth to reveal the teeth, use a special tooth extraction handpiece to cut the crown into pieces, then extract the roots, clean the extraction socket, and suture the incised gums. After a week, the stitches will be removed.

For wisdom teeth that are very difficult to extract, in order to reduce the swelling after extraction, you can choose a minimally invasive tooth collar or an ultrasonic bone knife to extract the tooth.

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Have you heard the rumors about tooth extraction?

Rumor 1 Facial paralysis after tooth extraction?

Some people say facial paralysis after tooth extraction? This is purely a rumor. The nerve involved in facial paralysis is the facial nerve, which is specially responsible for the movement of our facial muscles, while the nerve involved in the extraction of our wisdom teeth is the inferior alveolar nerve, which manages the sensation of the skin on the face, usually during tooth extraction. At this time, the inferior alveolar nerve will not be damaged. If the inferior alveolar nerve is damaged, if it is on the right side, the symptoms are only the numbness of this part of the lips and skin, which can usually be recovered in half a year to a year. During this period, it will not affect our facial shape or our daily life.

Rumor 2 Wisdom teeth removal can slim face?

Some people say that tooth extraction can make your face thinner, and many girls come to extract their wisdom teeth because they want to turn into a melon face. Doctor "Sugar" I also pulled out two lower wisdom teeth, but my face is still the same, why is this?

In fact, this is very understandable. Our face shape matches the shape of the jawbone, especially the shape of the mandibular angle. When we remove the wisdom teeth, although one tooth is missing, the corresponding extraction socket will grow back within 3 months. , but the shape of our mandible angle does not change! So you can't lose face by pulling teeth alone. If you feel that you are thin after tooth extraction, it may be because you did not eat well after tooth extraction, and you are hungry and thin!

Knock on the blackboard summary!

This issue of "Sugar" Doctor's Oral Class is here! I hope everyone can no longer be troubled by wisdom teeth and keep smiling!

(Contributed by: Tang Yu; Editor: Chen Chen)