# How is it possible to get pericoronitis after your wisdom teeth are already out?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 7, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-possible-to-get-pericoronitis-after-your-wisdom-teeth-are-already-out/719451 "2015-05-07T05:17:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-possible-to-get-pericoronitis-after-your-wisdom-teeth-are-already-out/719451/1 "2015-05-07T05:17:34Z")

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Before I got my impacted wisdom teeth taken out 3 years ago I would get [Pericoronitis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericoronitis) in the spot where my lower wisdom teeth were buried. Afterwards I still got it a couple times, and yesterday I got it again. There are no wisdom teeth there anymore so how can you still get it?

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**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-possible-to-get-pericoronitis-after-your-wisdom-teeth-are-already-out/719451/2 "2015-05-07T13:46:46Z")

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