Wisdom teeth are the teeth that last usually between the ages of 17-25. Full lasted or in the normal position of fully impacted tooth are not expected to cause problems. However, this impacted teeth should be evaluated in terms of extracting if they are in an abnormal position
Impacted teeth can cause problems if they are usually erupted half. Some of the situations that require the extraction of impacted teeth is listed as follows.
Decay:
Saliva, bacteria and food debris accumulate around the impacted teeth causes decays on wisdom teeth or adjacent teeth. It is difficult to treat this kind of decays and in this condition infection and pain occurs.
Gum Infection (pericoronitis):
Especially impacted teeth erupt half, leftovers and bacteria under the gum accumulate and cause a local infection, this cause bad breath, pain, swelling and trismus (difficulty when opening the mouth).
Moreover, the risk of such an infection to proceed to the are also available. Such an infection can usually be repeated again at regular intervals.neck.
Feeling the pressure:
Because of pressure of the impacted teeth to adjacent teeth pain may develop. In addition, damage may also occur in the adjacent teeth
Orthodontic Causes :
Orthodontic treatment is done to fix the position of the dental arch and teeth in many young patients. When impacted teeth try to erupt ; movement especially may cause crowding of front teeth or affect the success of this ongoing orthodontic treatment.
Prosthetic Reasons:
The impacted teeth of the patients that needs denture , should be extracted before the treatment. If the denture is made without extraction the denture causes serious irritations on the impacted teeth.
Cyst formation:
Cyst may ocur in the soft and hard tissues around the impacted tooth . Cysts may cause the destruction of the bone tissue and displacement of adjacent teeth in the jaw. The extraction of impacted teeth and cleaning the cyst in this region will help prevent further bone loss.Rarely this cysts causes tumors which reach large size and can cause to a broken jaw.