Do you have your wisdom teeth?
03-30-2011, 11:55 PM
#14
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Still have mine (I'm 47), one is sideways, but no cavities, no pain. I have had a few other teeth removed and replaced and crowned, but only when they were beyond redemption. If the teeth are sound, not giving any bother, leave them. My dentist is of the same opinion as me...and he is a very good dentist.
Don't mean to be cheeky, but I grew up in Britain and Australia and frankly there are not a lot of people (specially men) over 70 with any of their own teeth. No fluoride in the water, plus, back then in the services and the general population when teeth became a bother they extracted...sometimes the lot. So the argument the dentist used is flawed.
Don't mean to be cheeky, but I grew up in Britain and Australia and frankly there are not a lot of people (specially men) over 70 with any of their own teeth. No fluoride in the water, plus, back then in the services and the general population when teeth became a bother they extracted...sometimes the lot. So the argument the dentist used is flawed.
03-31-2011, 01:34 AM
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May be I'm wrong, but I always thought a dentist's job was to was to look after our teeth and help us keep them in good condition for a long as possible. It staggers me to see that this dentist wants to extract your husbands perfectly good teeth, he reason for doing this is ridiculous, don't we need our teeth for chewing, the Queen Mother had all her own teeth at the age of 102 when she died. I say your husband is right to keep his teeth for a long as they are in good shape, the alternative is dentures which are probably hard to get used to using. By the way I am 66 and still have all my own teeth. :)
03-31-2011, 02:02 AM
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OK I'll buy into this. 32 continuous years of dental nursing and I can tell you there are plenty of both men and women over 70, who still have their own teeth, including their wisdom teeth. By the same token, evolution is gradually doing away with them. There are lots of people who never develop wisdom teeth. If you have all your wisdom teeth, and they're fully erupted, and not angled, then in my opinion,there's really no reason to have them out, other than to help your dentist with his/her next car repayment. Unless there's another underlying factor we don't know about.
03-31-2011, 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by LucyInTheSky
So, the question - for those of you who your wisdom teeth grew in right, do you still have them or did you get them removed as a "preventive" measure?
03-31-2011, 03:34 AM
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Originally Posted by wanna be quilter
May be I'm wrong, but I always thought a dentist's job was to was to look after our teeth and help us keep them in good condition for a long as possible. It staggers me to see that this dentist wants to extract your husbands perfectly good teeth, he reason for doing this is ridiculous, don't we need our teeth for chewing, the Queen Mother had all her own teeth at the age of 102 when she died. I say your husband is right to keep his teeth for a long as they are in good shape, the alternative is dentures which are probably hard to get used to using. By the way I am 66 and still have all my own teeth. :)
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