Wisdom Teeth As an adult you can expect to grow a total of 32 permanent teeth. Your third molars, or wisdom teeth are the last to erupt somewhere between 17 and 24 years of age. But for many of us, our wisdom teeth cause problems. Impactions occur when wisdom teeth are pointed in the wrong [...]

Wisdom Teeth Pain Wisdom Teeth Pain Eruption of Wisdom tooth is a painful ordeal many of us had to go through as we grew in to our adolescent years. Quite often, the eruption is painful and sometimes leads to complications like impaction and may require you to undergo wisdom tooth extraction.What is a Wisdom tooth? [...]

Wisdom teeth can frequently become impacted or stuck behind the teeth. The current research is unclear on whether this can lead to a return of crowding but it is clear that impacted wisdom teeth can cause infections and bone loss. We almost always recommend the prophylactic removal of wisdom teeth after the completion of orthodontic [...]