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Suggest Treatment For Growing Bottom Wisdom Tooth
I am looking for a dentists opinion. I am 36 and my bottom wisdom tooth is growing in. I have no pain in my tooth but I keep biting down on my gum where it is growing. Do I have to get my wisdom extracted or can the gum be cut to help my wisdom grow in better.
Wed, 12 Nov 2014
Best possible way to decide on removing your wisdom tooth, Would be to do an x-ray and look at position. If there is any bone obstruction which we normally term it as an impaction, then the dentist decides on extraction or removal. If there is soft tissue covering and persistent irritation and inflammation, then the dentist would approach with simple procedure of removal of the soft tissue covering only called operculectomy.
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