The wisdom teeth, also called third molars, typically begin to erupt in a person’s late teen years or their early twenties, and they can cause a host of oral health problems if they do not have enough room in their mouth to accommodate them. Many patients report chronic pain in their teeth, jaws, head, or neck, and these and other complications often make extracting these molars necessary.
While it’s common for the wisdom teeth to be removed in a person’s early twenties, older adults can sometimes benefit from having them extracted as well. Here’s what the wisdom tooth extraction process looks like for those who kept their third molars for a few decades.
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