Poll of the Day > those who are over 25, do you still have all your wisdom teeth?

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yeah, not planning on removing them unless it hurt

No, I had them pulled because they were digging into a big nerve that runs through the jaw. I haven't noticed any nerve damage, which is good.
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No. And I was pissed about it. I use to chew with those teeth. They weren't even hurting. They just took 'em...
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Nope I got those fuckers surgically removed when I was 29 or so

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Nope. Out when I was 17.

Still have mine. Top ones are coming in ok but the bottom may have to go,

I had to have 3 pulled. My last one never grew.
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fishy071 posted...

I had to have 3 pulled. My last one never grew.

A tooth miscarriage. :(
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Nope. I had them removed at age 21 due to coming in very crooked (almost sideways) or hardly erupting from the socket at all.
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I had 5 removed (I had an extra one).

Two of them were impacted and one was half-impacted. They weren't hurting or anything, but my dentist recommended I should have them out, to prevent potential future problems - so I did it. And they were like, well, as long as we're in there we can take the other ones out as well just to be safe, and I was like, ehh, go ahead.

Don't remember exactly when it was, but I was still in college at the time. So probably 19-21 or so.


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taken out before they came in

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My gums grew over them, they hurt sometimes, but waay to late to have em removed. Wish I did when I was younger.
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Nope. Mine came in late (when I was 20-22), and were impacted, plus they cracked the ones in front of them, so that was 8 that had to come out. :/ Didn't have them all done at once; they did 2, 4, and 2, over about six months.

On the bright side, I didn't have any real 'pain' afterward, it was just sore. My dentist at the time shot me up with some kind of super-novocaine that took a HELL of a long time to wear off; needle went in right at 8:30 a.m., and I didn't get any sensation back in my jaw until after midnight.
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Nope, got them pulled when I was 15.

I grind my teeth in my sleep. So those was "cratered", didn't hurt, but needed them all removed.
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They can be a bitch to brush em or floss them if they are way back there, so even if they aren't hurting most dentists recommend taking them out. The day we have completely robotic devices that get in there and automatically clean all our teeth and even floss them is the day they won't care about them as much.

I'm 25, almost 26, now and I had my top 2 removed last spring and the bottom 2 never grew in, or even showed up in the x rays
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pulled 1 because it's annoying, that's it.
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Nope. I'm 33 and have 7 of my adult teeth remaining, total. One of which is a wisdom tooth. I have something called dental hypoplasia, which means my teeth crack and crumble to bits, no trauma necessary. It's such a nightmare.

The only reason I even have that one wisdom is because it came through after all my other upper teeth were extracted (17 teeth in one op, upper & lower); my mouth was overcrowded before that, so there just wasn't room for it.

On the plus side, both my upper wisdoms used to be at right angles under the roof of my mouth and the thin layer of skin between them and the air used to get super sore whenever I had a cold, and now they're no longer in the roof of my mouth it doesn't anymore. So, there's that...
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20 here so I won't vote, but I intend on keeping mine until they hurt. Although my Dentist does want me to get them taken out this year, they haven't bothered me once.
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I got my wisdom teeth out at 33. They were starting to cause some problems with my gums.

Had all 4 removed at the same time after one split in half.
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3 came in and are just fine. The fourth just never existed.
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Nope. Had them removed because they hurt like Hell.
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Of all the dental and orthodontic care I've needed in my life, I'm surprised yet relieved that my wisdom teeth never grew in.
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Nope. Had them removed as part of the bite correction surgery I had when I was 20. They were just starting to come in, which was causing a bit of teething discomfort, but nothing too bad yet. Given the general overcrowding situation in my mouth, though, they likely would have caused more problems, so out they came.
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Had two removed on my right bottom side...one got rotted out b/c the other was growing impacted...

So got the first removed in 2010 and the other in 2013...felt funny after awhile, but got used to it.

Yes.
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I still have mine but I wish I didnt. I broke the one in the back left of my mouth and if I chew on that side its excruciating. Im to afraid to go to the dentist so I have been putting up with it for about a year.

metallicaFTW posted...

I still have mine but I wish I didnt. I broke the one in the back left of my mouth and if I chew on that side its excruciating. Im to afraid to go to the dentist so I have been putting up with it for about a year.

Dude, just go. If you get an abcess, you'll be ready to let them pull it out with no anesthetic just to get rid of that pain.
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Just turned 31, n they all still going strong surprisingly
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had one pulled, still have two coming in. sore as hell sometimes, i hate it.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I had 5 removed (I had an extra one).

dude you stole my tooth
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I've had many teeth pulled so I probably had them removed.
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Still have mine at 25. Dentists talked about taking them out when they were first coming in since they might cause some crowding but they've basically just came and chilled and haven't fucked up my teeth so they're staying for now.
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Yes but 2 of them probably need to be removed within the year and the other 2 seem fine.
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I'm 32 and my wisdom teeth have been gone for over 20 years

Yeah that happened early

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Nope.

Having had them all removed (three surgically, one hauled out the old-fashioned way), I don't get why people are squeamish about having them removed. There was zero pain at all and I didn't even take any of the serious painkillers they gave me.
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I have all four. Lower left didn't come in quite all the way and the lower ones did cause my two front teeth to shift and slightly overlap. Not too bad though. The one that didn't come in all the way has been aching a little the last few days. I may end up having to get it pulled.
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darkknight109 posted...

Nope.

Having had them all removed (three surgically, one hauled out the old-fashioned way), I don't get why people are squeamish about having them removed. There was zero pain at all and I didn't even take any of the serious painkillers they gave me.

Three separate procedures to get rid of mine, and they gave me a bottle of hydrocodone each time. I literally only used two, the first time, because the soreness was just enough to distract me and keep me from falling asleep. The other two times, I just took aspirin.

Ended up cutting the hydros in half and using them as sleeping pills over the next year or so.
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Nade Duck posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I had 5 removed (I had an extra one).

dude you stole my tooth

lol:)
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Still got all 4 of mine. They grew in just fine and never caused any issues. Then again counting them I naturally only have 28 teeth still. I guess I'm missing a full set for some reason, idk, but it gave the wisdom teeth room to do their thing so I'm not complaining.
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I had them removed in my mid 20's.
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They took them out while they were slicing things up as part of a jaw surgery. So they've been gone for like a decade now.
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Well they're no longer in my mouth, but I still have them. So for the poll, technically yes?

LinkPizza posted...

No. And I was pissed about it. I use to chew with those teeth. They weren't even hurting. They just took 'em...

Military dentist just had to get their practice pulling teeth huh. I hear my father was pissed too cause he had a gap and after his came in his gap closed. Then the airforce snatched em and the gap came back.
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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Dude, just go. If you get an abcess, you'll be ready to let them pull it out with no anesthetic just to get rid of that pain.

I've gotten an abscess a few times due to bottom wisdom teeth being unable to be taken out when I even was able to get teeth removed.

Came in sideways and broke, right now still have jagged teeth back there.

No laughing matter, but fear can be so much more of a force than you'd think.