Should Teeth Get Pulled?

[elizabeth09]

?

[missionseeker]

it depends upon what they did to deserve it.

did they come in crooked?

or did they rot away?

[HisChildForever]

Well, if I didn't have my four impacted wisdom teeth surgically extracted and drilled out, I would be in trouble.

[Resurrexi]

Most people get their wisdom teeth pulled.

[elizabeth09]

Just keep eagle_eye222001 in you prayers.

[Resurrexi]

I take it he's getting some teeth pulled?

[elizabeth09]

Like today

[CatherineM]

I hated having my wisdom teeth pulled. I still have them in my jewelry box. Probably some kind of major psychological issue with that.

[RezaMikhaeil]

If it's necessary yes, but I think the whole "wisdom teeth" thing is a myth. I'd been told as a teen 50 million times to have mine pulled, of course I didn't and everything is cool. From my experienes [and discussion with dentists] the tell everyone that, some it may benefit but many will be fine without it.

Do you really believe that God designed human beings with too many teeth? I used to think I was alone in this but I'm finding alot more people the more that I research medical myths, etc.

Reza

[CatherineM]

[quote name='RezaLemmyng' post='1873849' date='May 23 2009, 10:54 AM']If it's necessary yes, but I think the whole "wisdom teeth" thing is a myth. I'd been told as a teen 50 million times to have mine pulled, of course I didn't and everything is cool. From my experienes [and discussion with dentists] the tell everyone that, some it may benefit but many will be fine without it.

Do you really believe that God designed human beings with too many teeth? I used to think I was alone in this but I'm finding alot more people the more that I research medical myths, etc.

Reza[/quote]

In my case, the wisdom teeth shoving all my teeth out of alignment. My bottom front teeth still overlap a huge amount from the damage. They were also causing me so much pain that I couldn't sleep with either jaw touching the pillow. My mouth was too small for them or something.

When my son went into the navy, they pulled 8 of this teeth. Apparently everyone going into the navy gets them yanked. They don't want them to be at sea far from a dentist and have any trouble. I had the dentist seal my son's teeth with that polymer stuff when he was little, and he'd never even had a small cavity, so his first real experience with a dentist other than cleaning was major oral surgery. I thought taking 8 was a bit much. He was miserable for weeks.

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='RezaLemmyng' post='1873849' date='May 23 2009, 11:54 AM']If it's necessary yes, but I think the whole "wisdom teeth" thing is a myth. I'd been told as a teen 50 million times to have mine pulled, of course I didn't and everything is cool. From my experienes [and discussion with dentists] the tell everyone that, some it may benefit but many will be fine without it.

Do you really believe that God designed human beings with too many teeth? I used to think I was alone in this but I'm finding alot more people the more that I research medical myths, etc.

Reza[/quote]

[dominicansoul]

I got all my back teeth pulled to make room for my wisdom teeth.

...it was not cool.....

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1873851' date='May 23 2009, 12:02 PM']In my case, the wisdom teeth shoving all my teeth out of alignment. My bottom front teeth still overlap a huge amount from the damage. They were also causing me so much pain that I couldn't sleep with either jaw touching the pillow. My mouth was too small for them or something.

When my son went into the navy, they pulled 8 of this teeth. Apparently everyone going into the navy gets them yanked. They don't want them to be at sea far from a dentist and have any trouble. I had the dentist seal my son's teeth with that polymer stuff when he was little, and he'd never even had a small cavity, so his first real experience with a dentist other than cleaning was major oral surgery. I thought taking 8 was a bit much. He was miserable for weeks.[/quote]

They take eight? That's crazy.

Did they take his appendix, too?

[eagle_eye222001]

Yeah I got all four of my wisdom teeth pulled Friday. Two were a couple degrees short of being horizontal.

Ouch.

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[HisChildForever]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1873851' date='May 23 2009, 12:02 PM']In my case, the wisdom teeth shoving all my teeth out of alignment. My bottom front teeth still overlap a huge amount from the damage. They were also causing me so much pain that I couldn't sleep with either jaw touching the pillow. My mouth was too small for them or something.[/quote]

Yes, my bottom two front teeth are [i]slightly[/i] crooked, and I blame it on the wisdom teeth. In my case, the wisdom teeth were growing in sideways. One was peeking over the gum and got infected - which is the only reason why I went to the dentist (in other words there was no pain). Had I not had the teeth removed, and infections returned - which would have happened for the other three as well were they to surface - I was told that if untreated I could wind up in the hospital. No myth about that.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1873851' date='May 23 2009, 12:02 PM']When my son went into the navy, they pulled 8 of this teeth.[/quote]

Eight Teeth?!

[CatherineM]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1873857' date='May 23 2009, 11:10 AM']They take eight? That's crazy.

Did they take his appendix, too?[/quote]

I thought it was nuts too. They don't always take 8, but they always take the 4 wisdom teeth. I never really figured out if the kid had two sets of wisdom teeth, or if they took the last molars or something. When he finally got to come home on leave, I was too busy hugging him to ask him to open his mouth. He was home about 5 minutes anyway, long enough to dump two duffel bags worth of dirty uniforms on me, all that needed his new stripes sewn on too, and then disappeared to see his friends. I complain, but I enjoyed every minute of cleaning and pressing his uniforms.

[elizabeth09]

Should the wisdom teeth give you wisdom and understanding?

[MissScripture]

[quote name='RezaLemmyng' post='1873849' date='May 23 2009, 11:54 AM']If it's necessary yes, but I think the whole "wisdom teeth" thing is a myth. I'd been told as a teen 50 million times to have mine pulled, of course I didn't and everything is cool. From my experienes [and discussion with dentists] the tell everyone that, some it may benefit but many will be fine without it.

Do you really believe that God designed human beings with too many teeth? I used to think I was alone in this but I'm finding alot more people the more that I research medical myths, etc.

Reza[/quote]
If some benefit, then how can the WHOLE wisdom teeth thing be a myth? My mom's were starting to grow in backwards and INTO nerves in her face. Pretty sure if she didn't have them removed she'd be in a lot of trouble. On the flip side, my brother never had to have his removed and no one has ever told him he should.

[Archaeology cat]

Mine were trying to come in sideways, so I had to have them cut out. I also had to have a 12-year-molar cut out, as the roots were growing into my jaw. My jaw still hurts sometimes from that one.

Growing up, I had "shark teeth" - my permanent teeth came in behind my baby teeth, without the baby teeth falling out. So I've had all but 2 of the baby teeth pulled (the other 2 actually fell out on their own). 4 of those were without being numbed, but they were kinda loose anyway.