You must know these rumors about wisdom teeth!

Inflammation of wisdom teeth, ah, what a painful realization!

During the May Day holiday, did you stay up all night, drink alcohol, eat skewers, and live a nourishing life? But after the festival, I suddenly found that my gums were swollen and painful, my mouth could not be opened, and my face was swollen as if I had an egg in my mouth. I couldn't help sighing secretly, hey! Wisdom teeth are inflamed again!

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

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Why do wisdom teeth often become inflamed?

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

During the growth of wisdom teeth, a lot of food residues will be hidden between the gums covering the wisdom teeth and the teeth. In addition, the position of the wisdom teeth is relatively backward, 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 be short of food. After a period of fermentation, caries will occur in the front adjacent teeth and further develop into pulpitis, and the alveolar bone in this part will gradually absorption, resulting in loosening of adjacent teeth.

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How do doctors extract wisdom teeth?

After many ordeals, you finally mustered up the courage to extract your tooth. Before tooth extraction, you thought the doctor would extract teeth like this: pliers, collar, hammer.

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

The doctor will first use a scalpel to incise the gums covering the teeth to expose the teeth, then use a special extraction handpiece to chop the crowns into pieces and take them out, then extract the roots, clean the extraction sockets and suture the incised gums. Come back in a week and have the stitches removed.

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

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Have you heard the rumors about tooth extraction?

Rumor 1 Facial paralysis after tooth extraction?

Some people say that facial paralysis will occur after tooth extraction? This is purely a rumor. The nerve involved in facial paralysis is the facial nerve, which is responsible for the movement of our facial muscles. The nerve involved in the extraction of our wisdom teeth is the inferior alveolar nerve. This nerve is responsible for the sensation of the skin on the face. The inferior alveolar nerve will not be damaged at the time. If the inferior alveolar nerve is injured, if it is on the right side, the symptoms will only be the numbness of this part of the lips and skin, and it will usually recover in half a year to a year. During the period, it will not affect our facial shape, nor will it affect our daily life.

Rumor 2: Pulling out wisdom teeth can help you lose weight?

Some people say that tooth extraction can slim your face. Many girls come here for wisdom teeth extraction because they want to have a melon-shaped face. Doctor "Sugar" also pulled out two lower wisdom teeth, but my face is still round. Why is that?

In fact, this is very easy to understand. Our face shape matches the shape of the jawbone, especially the shape of the mandibular angle. After we extract wisdom teeth, although there is one missing tooth, the corresponding tooth extraction socket will grow within 3 months. , but the shape of our mandibular angle will not change! Therefore, tooth extraction alone cannot slim your face. If you feel that you have lost weight after tooth extraction, it may be because you did not eat well after tooth extraction, and you are hungry and skinny!

Knock on the blackboard to summarize!

This issue of "Sugar" doctor's dental class is here! I hope that everyone will no longer be troubled by wisdom teeth, and smile often!

(Contribution: Tang Yu; Editor: Chen Chen)