The wisdom tooth is growing. What to expect and what to do?

What if you suddenly found that your wisdom tooth is growing ? It depends on how the process goes. Do pain or discomforts arise, do other problems appear? Most teeth (28) in a man grow up in childhood, and the remaining 4 erupt much later. It is the fact that they grow up at the age of 17 to 40 years, and causes their name - the wisdom teeth. They are at the end of each of the rows and are numbered 8 in dentistry.

What's so unusual about how the wisdom tooth grows? Unlike the rest, he does not have a milk predecessor. With this, and most of the problems and painful sensations arising at its appearance are associated, which almost always becomes a surprise.

The main danger is that the new tooth is squeezed into a fully formed jaw, hampering its neighbors. Often this entails a curvature of the dentition, and this is not just a cosmetic defect. In addition to losing a beautiful smile, this phenomenon causes difficulties with effective cleaning of the oral cavity and leads to an increased risk of caries.

A frequent complication is also local inflammation and discomfort. People complain that the gum is very painful to the wisdom tooth, and this pain can then abate, then break out with renewed vigor for several months and even years. Also, a cyst can develop which can not be cured without the intervention of a dental surgeon.

Unlike others, the wisdom tooth is growing very slowly, sometimes stopping for months and years in the process, while a part of the gum remains over it, hanging like a hood under which particles of food accumulate. A warm and humid environment promotes the multiplication of bacteria that cause inflammation, sometimes very serious. This disease is called pericoronaritis. Symptoms include pain and swelling in the gum area, bad breath and an unusual aftertaste. When these signs appear, you need to contact a dentist.

As for the direction, the wisdom tooth grows not always smoothly - sometimes its upper edge rests on the cheek. When talking and eating, he injures the place of contact with the mucosa. In the site of injury, non-healing sores may occur, which cause severe discomfort.

And it happens that the wisdom tooth does not grow, it forms and remains in the gum, but still causes problems: it damages the roots of its neighbors, provokes neuralgic pain. Such abnormal teeth usually have to be removed.

How can you help yourself?

1. Frequent massage. The more often you touch the gum, the faster the tooth will cut through. This is due to increased blood supply and the corresponding acceleration of the process. If the sensations are too painful, then do not self-medicate - perhaps, inflammation has begun and it is necessary to fight with it under the supervision of a doctor.
2. Special means. Among pharmacological preparations, there are those that are designed to facilitate the process of the appearance of teeth in children. For adults, they also come up (Holisal, Kamistad, etc.) They relieve pain, sometimes disinfect.
3. Ethnoscience. In general, the wisdom of the people was considered "bad" and most often they were advised to remove. The very time of eruption was facilitated by such means:

• Salt water: a teaspoon of table salt to half a cup of water. Rinse as discomfort develops.
• Salo: Rinse a small piece of ready salted lard fat from salt and attach to a sick gum.
• Sage: brew a pinch of grass on a glass of water. As soon as the boiling water has cooled to the temperature you can tolerate, rinse your mouth with infusion. You can repeat the procedure several times a day.
• Acupuncture: massage the tips of the ears, pressing them with a thumb and forefinger from different sides.