Risks Of Impacted Tooth Extraction surgery

After the extraction of a wisdom tooth, the following may be experienced.

• Pain and swelling in the tooth socket, gums and the surrounding tissues where the tooth was extracted.
• Continuous bleeding that can last for nearly 24 hours.
• Difficulty with opening your jaw or pain while opening (trismus).
• Gums may heal slowly.
• Damage to other dental parts like crowns or bridges of the same tooth or to roots of a tooth next to it.
• An aching inflammation known as dry socket, occurring when the defensive blood clot is missing too soon.
• Numbness in mouth and lips soon after the anesthetic wears off, owing to injury or swelling of the nerves.
• Rare side effects, include

o Numbness in mouth or lips that stays permanently.
o A fractured jaw in case of the tooth being tightly attached to jaw bone.
o A hole in the sinus cavity after the removal of a wisdom tooth from upper jaw.
Oral surgery may sometimes push the bacteria into the blood stream, thus causing infections to other body parts. Owing to this reason, people who have a weak immune system must take antibiotics before as well as after the surgery.

People who possess artificial heart or heart defects from birth must also take antibiotics. Anesthetic either local or general is mostly used in an oral surgery. All surgeries using anesthetics have a little risk of death and other complications.

In case of no problems with your wisdom teeth currently, you may find difficulty in deciding over if it must be removed or not. In such cases, you can consider the below.

• You may never experience problems with wisdom teeth.
• It is hardly ever harmful to health to have wisdom teeth removed, but there are minor risks involved with surgeries.
• In younger people, the wisdom teeth's roots are not completely developed and the jaw bone is also not very dense, making it easier for removal. When the removal is easier, the recovery will also be easier.
• Most of the above problems develop between 15 and 25 years of age.
• In case of people above 30, only a small risk of developing problems with wisdom teeth exists.
• Medical insurance will never cover this procedure.
• In case of any other worsening medical condition, wisdom teeth may result in problems. Hence consider removing wisdom teeth when you are hale and healthy.
• Probable complications include dry socket, bleeding, infection, and numbness. But the chance of developing complications is very low as 2% (2 in 100 people). The risk is somewhat higher in case of wisdom teeth being removed from the lower jaw rather than the upper jaw.