The Survival Guide to Getting Your Wisdom Teeth Removed
It might be during a routine teeth cleaning that you hear the bad news from your dentist: “It looks like your wisdom teeth are coming in.”
Unfortunately, these teeth don’t actually bring you any kind of wisdom. Instead, they get their name because they typically appear between ages 17 and 25, known as an “age of wisdom”, and they usually require treatment or extraction.
Not everyone develops the third set of molars (about 65% of us do), but the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons reports about 85% percent of people have at least one impacted wisdom tooth during their lifetime, meaning there’s not enough space for it to break through the gums.