Wisdom teeth and wisdom teeth pericoronitis

Wisdom teeth, also known as the third section, generally in the 20-year-old grow teeth. Most can not smoothly modern eruption of wisdom teeth, even teeth eruption is difficult to play its due role.

If you want to reason, must be considered in the process of human evolution. If you have seen the ape-man skull or pay attention to similar pictures, you will find that as human evolution, the brain is constantly expanding, and jaw gradually shrinking. Human evolution, habits changed, gained more and more soft food, gradual degradation caused by the mandible, shortened, ie: chewing organ in the degradation. In contrast, far less than the rate of tooth narrow jaw. In this sense, the number of teeth of modern man has "oversupply" (So, now the standard number of teeth is 28-32, a considerable number of people has completely degraded away wisdom teeth). As the jaw Dental Reviews position insufficient to provide the location of the eruption of wisdom teeth, wisdom tooth eruption cause disruption. Medically known as impacted wisdom teeth. Impacted wisdom teeth can present a variety of locations, such as vertical, horizontal or forward position and so on.

Impacted wisdom tooth crown surface gum flap, so that with a crown formed between the cracks, medically known as blind bag. People eat food debris most likely hiding inside, with the mouth of the humidity, the humidity to the growth of bacteria provides a good breeding environment. Blind bag of food residue even brush your teeth, gargle is not easy to remove. Under normal circumstances, the harm caused by the bacteria is not obvious, but in the cold, fatigue, lowered immunity when it trouble, take advantage of this form of wisdom teeth pericoronitis.

This disease can not be underestimated. It is ferocious, gum swelling and pain significantly, there will be severe trismus, difficulty swallowing, eating, accompanied by fever, headache, aches and discomfort, constipation, increased white blood cells and other symptoms. If treatment is not complete, it will become chronic inflammation. Pericoronitis repeated attack, blind bag of pus from the mouth into the digestive tract, can form the body's "Focus", the long-term health hazards. Wisdom teeth can cause facial pericoronitis soft tissue infections, spread to the head and face adverse consequences. Impacted wisdom teeth that are harmful not only to the body, but also damage to the adjacent teeth, often resulting in adjacent teeth caries, pulpitis can produce severe, damage to adjacent teeth, alveolar bone and premature loss of function.

In addition to wisdom teeth pericoronitis, the impacted wisdom tooth can also cause other diseases.

Impacted wisdom teeth should not reach the height of the other, to the daily teeth cleaning (brushing) inconvenience, and wisdom in the final position, almost no occlusion effect, it is easy to decay, causing pulpitis, periapical , pain, swelling and so on.

The most serious consequences of its existence, and the front teeth caused by chewing a well-functioning extremely difficult to clean dirt retention area, the course of time will result in the loss of front teeth caries.

Then there is no eruption of wisdom teeth even though the location, it is still tiresome to grow, so push the teeth forward movement, resulting in the entire dentition malalignment, resulting in occlusal deformities.

Wisdom teeth pericoronitis is made of a young good oral diseases, if repeated inflammation of the threat to the health of adjacent teeth or dentition occurs, removal of wisdom teeth as soon as possible.