Wisdom tooth removal — or wisdom tooth extraction — is a common oral surgery procedure. Dentists may recommend this treatment to preserve your oral health and protect your other teeth from possible issues in the future. Your wisdom teeth — also called third molars — are in the very back of your mouth.
Removing the wisdom tooth
If the tooth hasn't come through the gum, a small cut (incision) will be made in the gum to access it. A small piece of the bone covering the tooth may also need to be removed. The tooth may be cut into smaller parts to make it easier to remove through the opening.
What does the procedure involve? Most upper wisdom teeth can be removed easily under a local anaesthetic. Lower wisdom teeth can be more difficult to remove. Removing a wisdom tooth can involve cutting the gum to uncover your tooth, removing bone around your tooth and dividing your tooth with a drill.
Why It's Done
Wisdom teeth, or third molars, are the last permanent teeth to appear (erupt) in the mouth. These teeth usually appear between the ages of 17 and 25 Risks
Most wisdom tooth extractions don't result in long-term complications. However How You Prepare
Your dentist may perform the procedure in the office. However, if your tooth is deeply impacted or if the extraction requires an in-depth surgical approach What You Can Expect
During the procedure
Your dentist or oral surgeon may use one of three types of anesthesia Results
You probably won't need a follow-up appointment after a wisdom tooth extraction if: 1. You don't need stitches removed 2
Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) are stem cells present in the dental pulp, which is the soft living tissue within teeth.
DPSCs can be collected from dental pulp by means of a non-invasive practice.
It can be performed with an adult after simple extraction or to the young after surgical extraction of wisdom teeth.
They are pluripotent, as they can form embryoid body-like structures (EBs) in vitro and teratoma-like structures that contained tissues derived from all three embryonic germ layers when injected in nude mice.
DPSCs can differentiate in vitro into tissues that have similar characteristics to mesoderm, endoderm and ectoderm layers.
They can differentiate into many cell types, such as odontoblasts, neural progenitors, osteoblasts, chondrocytes, and adipocytes.
DPSCs were found to be able to differentiate into adipocytes and neural-like cells.
DPSC differentiation into osteogenic lines is enhanced in 3D condition and hypoxia.
These cells can be obtained from postnatal teeth, wisdom teeth, and deciduous teeth, providing researchers with a non-invasive method of extracting stem cells.
The different cell populations, however, differ in certain aspects of their growth rate in culture, marker gene expression and cell differentiation, although the extent to which these differences can be attributed to tissue of origin, function or culture conditions remains unclear.
As a result, DPSCs have been thought of as an extremely promising source of cells used in endogenous tissue engineering.