Me too. I’ve never noticed them being a problem and no dentist has mentioned taking them out.
My father, who died at 88, had his. In fact he still had all of his teeth.
Still have all four. No pressure from dentists.
I’m the youngest of six children. Five of us have straight teeth, wisdom teeth coming in fine, etc.
My poor brother had to have braces and pulling and surgeries and the works. He’s our Dorian Gray portrait, only he’s all teeth.
Dentist isn’t really pushing me to get rid of them. She says I can keep them as long as they don’t bother me.
Mine were removed prophylactically when I was 19, but they probably would have caused problems down the road as they were partially erupted and impacted. I think the dentists steered me right on that one - better removed when I was young, then wait and make it harder when they became an issue.
One never developed at all. The other three were problems and got yanked. One was causing quite a bit of pain as it pushed against another moral.
I didn’t absolutely need mine out, but I was always biting the inside of cheek with them, and they were kind of crowding my other teeth I guess, so I was really glad to get them out. Feels so much better without them.
How about “I keep them, but my dentist has never pressured me to remove them”? Every new dentist is wowed by the fact that I’m a grown ass woman with them still in tact, but they’ve all just moved on considering they aren’t causing any issues. They’ve all made some comment and/or what they fancy to be a quip, and then I make some comment and/or quip about how I guess I just have a big mouth, and then they go on to scraping my plaque away, or whatever they’re doing when they clean.
I suppose I should change my “How about” to “Another for.”
I had all of them out. One came in, but it hurt like hell, and started “pushing” at the tooth beside it, if that makes sense. (And that tooth ended up getting infected) The other three were impacted. I had them out in two sessions – the second on my 21rst birthday, IIRC. Yeah, that was fun. :mad:
20 years ago a dentist told me they were impacted and should removed. I didn’t believe him. Kept the wisdom teeth and never had a problem. The current dentist never mentions it.
My dentist doesn’t like pulling out teeth.
I’ve had 3 of them removed in the dentists chair with a local, over a period of years as each one got infected. The one I have left is still hanging in there.
Never had any pressure to remove any of them, it’s been me going to the dentists in severe pain asking to get this thing the F out of my mouth.
I had my lower wisdom teeth pulled in my early 20’s because they were impacted. I did not have any issues with my uppers until I was well into my 40’s, then one partially erupted, and since I was under-employed at that time I didn’t do anything about it. I did have the tooth extracted eventually, but i ended up losing the molar next to it because the root was exposed and got infected, causing bone loss. I still have the other upper, and it is well back in the gum (possibly in a sinus). My dentist says it will probably never erupt.
Mine would have been a problem, based on the xrays and the crowding of my lower front teeth that had already started by the age of 16. So they were removed before they erupted, and you could see on the xrays they were pushing on my molars. Now, based on the issues I’ve had with needing crowns on my rear two bottom molars, I’m sure the wisdom teeth would have been problematic even if I had space for them.
I had two that had come in and were crowding my teeth. I had one more that just would not fit in my upper jaw. I never had a fourth.
I do not remember if the third one was already causing me pain, or if I just got it out with the others.
Had two pulled at age 20. The other two are still with me thirty-plus years later. No one has ever tried to get them out since then, though the original recommendation was for all four to come out. (Dentist said, take all four. Orthodontists said, just the ones on the right. Orthodontist won.)
I had to vote “combination” as my case was not specified in the poll. The nerve.
Your poll didn’t include the option: I have all my wisdom teeth, and have never been pressured to remove them. If you had that option in your poll, I would have checked that.
Got them all out: the two fully impacted, the two partially impacted, and the other one.
In one sense, I never had wisdom teeth.
But I do have them in my body in the natural location too.!
They (or what would be… ) are small and uninterrupted, hiding under the gums. Dentists don’t spot them, they say “wisdom teeth missing”… I say “I know eactly where they are ! they are there, hiding the gums !”
How rare is that ?
I’d never be ticking a box on your poll !
I have had two dentists in my life who wanted me to get my wisdom teeth out, one of them bordering on hysterical about it. The others have all shrugged and said if there isn’t a problem no reason to bother about them. The fact I can actually get a toothbrush and floss all the way back there and keep them clean is probably one reason my current dental health folks aren’t worried.
Despite the occasional dire warning about crowding it’s never been a problem. I’ve got some small gapping between a few teeth despite have a full 32 item set so crowding is not an issue. They’re fully erupted, in line, and useful for chewing.
I’ve been very fortunate in dental matters and I do appreciate it when I see/hear/read about the misery some other people endure. I just everyone else was as fortunate.
That is the case with me, but I picked the first option as the closest to my situation.