Teething

[mrissa]

Oh, the indignity. My body has decided to make up for being an early bloomer in every other respect one can imagine by waiting until now to produce my top left wisdom tooth. I had been telling people I only had the bottom two, like my mom. Apparently I have three wisdom teeth. How bizarre. I'm nearly 27. I should not be teething.

Comments

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Ellameena's comment about having room for your new teeth is a valid concern.

My wisdom teeth came in at age 17 and caused me no overt problems. But my teeth got way too crowded... but my dentist at the time never said anything.

That's just an excerpt from a much longer saga, but now, after eight extractions (including wisdoms), major jaw surgery, and almost five years of braces (I'm almost done! Yay!), my advice to you is: talk to your dentist not just about the pain, but about whether you have room for the wisdom teeth. If they shift other teeth forward you could get bite problems.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Yes, sometimes they seem okay, but slowly push your teeth out of alignment. I actually had mine extracted before they even emerged because they were under my other molars. Then again I had a large malocclusion that required surgery. Wisdom teeth: nature's little joke.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I'm not sure I want to know how they extract wisdom teeth that are under molars...

...but I'm too much like the elephant's child not to ask. Do they go in from the side or what?