What You Should Know About Wisdom Teeth, Complications, and Removal
It might be during a routine teeth cleaning that you hear the bad news: “It looks like your wisdom teeth are coming in.”
Unfortunately, these teeth won’t bring you bouts of wisdom (They typically appear between ages 17 and 25, known as an “age of wisdom” – hence the name), instead they usually require treatment or extraction.
Not everyone develops the third set of molars (about 65% of us do), but the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons reports about 90 percent of people have at least one impacted wisdom tooth, meaning there’s not enough space for it to break through the gums.