Should I Remove my Wisdom Teeth?! 

Unbearably annoying loud music. Tune it down for god. I was interested in the information but couldn't get past two minutes

Love your honesty Dr. Peggy! I am in Cyprus atm and I wish you could be my Dentist! You are amazing as a doctor and as a human.

The background music is distracting don couldn’t watch the full video 🤫

That means wisdom teeth ( the third molars ) are smaller than two big molars ? ( the second molars ) . Mine were smaller and were impacted beneath the gums and bones ( means inside the nerve ) and upper ones were inside the gums . So basically none of them were seen . But we’re inverted and severely impacted especially the lowers . Inclined left horizontally and upper inclined to the rights vertically .

Thank you. Just so u know the music was a bit loud in trying to hear you. Thanks so much for the vid Doc😊

Can I ask you something? I'm 38 and still have my wisdom teeth. They are all fully erupted from what I can tell but one of them has a flap of gum on top of it as well as being covered by gum on the backside. The other one has no flap but also the gum on the back. On the side where the flap is I sometimes get swelling and I notice a bad taste sometimes originates from there. What would you normally recommend in such a case? Not sure if you're familiar with "mewing" but if I do that can it be that my jaw might still grow and so the gum flap gets "reabsorbed" by the body as there will be more space? What about just cutting away the gum flap? I suspect this whole thing is a source of inflammation for the body, but I also don't want to make my jaw smaller than it already is by removing those teeth.

I have two mesioangular impacted lower wisdom teeth and two upper wisdom teeth which don’t cause problems but have no contact with any lower teeth. I’m 24 and since I was a teenager I’ve had a few episodes of pericoronitis in the past but now I am careful with hygiene I haven’t had too many issues recently. Food does still get stuck but I floss it out. I live in the UK where the standard of care is just to monitor wisdom teeth unless they cause recurrent problems and when I had pericoronitis I just received debridement and did not require any antibiotics. I did discuss with two maxillofacial surgeons removal but they gave conflicting opinions. My main concern is that removal of these teeth will decrease bone density in my jaw and affect my facial appearance. What are your general thoughts on patients such as myself?

Thank you Doc!!

Is there any need to remove wisdom teeth if they haven't fully grown in or if they have caused slight crowding? Also is it best to let my dentist decide if my wisdom teeth need removing? Thank you for these videos they're really great I would love to see a video of you in the dentist chair getting your teeth cleaned :)

I don't have any wisdom teeth and no more wisdom either. I was around 30 something when I got my last wisdom tooth taken out.

background music is WAY too loud. sounds like you're trying to explain a serious subject during a party in a club. maybe make the music volume much lower? or remove it entirely?

Thanks for your honest wisdom 🙏 most dentists seem to really just wantvto prevent their bank account from going down so they highly recommend every breathing person get them removed. I trust that God designed us pretty well and we really shouldn't mess with his design unless it is really necessary. ❤🙏

I have all my wisdom teeth in, but they have never caused problems. I want to get invisalighn and I am wondering if you think I should remove them?

If they're not impacted, if they're not causing you pain, just leave them alone. if They're not there for a reason, they won't exist in the first place.

A letter to my orthodontist . Regarding the wisdom tooth, I just want to say that I decided to remove it since I saw there is not so much space and that its not coming out fully and it sometimes gives me issues. But I already regret it very much. It was very painful 8 hours after the operation. I have the tooth in a bag. It was the biggest and healthiest teeth I had in my mouth. No cavities, no holes, very big and strong. Such a teeth could have been a gift for the older me to last the next 50 years, while older teeth sometimes do not hold as I age. It was so vey stupid to remove it. But consulting with many orthodontists and dentists, I was never given a better opinion, rather than to remove it. I think this is very wrong. That tooth was 80% out... now that I know how big it was, and I remember how you can shave off 0.1-0.5 mm one sided with this metal paper... Any dentist could have made more space for it in the front and then pulled it into the mouth to allow the gums to close behind it. Maybe it would have taken a year or two since it's a big molar. But I assume it would have been possible... And saving a tooth like that should be one of the top priorities of the ortodontic community... I can not believe how the dental medicine community takes care to save each tooth in the mouth from root and cavity - but they are so eager to remove a fully grown, brand new, molar tooth! It is completely absurd. It's time for dentist community to wake up. Claims like "it's hard to brush the tooth in the back" to justify a tooth removal should not be heard in today's medicine... It's simply not correct, and one do not "shoot a dog just because he doesn't always clean after him". Also, in my case saying that "that tooth had no contra tooth above it" is not really correct. That tooth was partially helping the upper moller - it can be seen in the invisalign simulation. If moved more into the mouth, it would have been perfect. Now that it is gone.. the upper molar doesn't have a full contra from below. So this whole arguments routine that I heard from many, just sounds more like a repeating mantra for every patient rather than a real truth for a specific case. I am in no way trying to put any blame on you. I am the stupid one of not thinking about 0.5mm removal beforehand. But all dental doctors are failing their patients, if they do not raise this option. I hope that if you see a case like mine in the future you would allow yourself to think about such an option to save the tooth. Yes it may be more work. Yes it may not have a documented common procedure. But it is all about saving teeth in the end. It is true that clients are ignorant and don't know anything out of all the science that dentists were taught and experienced. But you can't always be right on anything. Doctors are wrong too, sometimes. Tonsils were removed for millions of people not long ago. And it was completely unnecessary. Millions of operations on children were done, just because doctors were too lazy to go against the flow and examine the facts more closely. Tell me that the dental community isn't too eager to remove wisdom teeth just because this is what the book says. Tell me that the money incentive of pulling out teeth is never a factor in the decision. I want to believe that. But the evidence - they say something different.

Great content, the background music was too loud and annoying, would recommend lowering it down in future videos :)

Dentist are like mecanicz they never say the same thing always crach8ng .. iam 31 and just took 4 out not as painfull as wen u get them infected ... i do hope my beitifull jaw dont change that just sound obsurt ....my were half way out side ways and gat infected 2 times so i was f these i litterly could not eat for a week. Stuff is scary specially wen u dentista say these and that.....dont want to expirence that level off pain again thats for sure the extracción is no were close to wen ur widom tooth give u trouble...

I'm 51 been in agony for three days.my top wisdom tooth is coming out on full force.front parts pretty much out.. the back is out the inside is peeping out.cant afford the dentist but it's agony. Mouth wash brushing the teeth salt water