IMPACTED WISDOM TOOTH

WISDOM TEETH OR 3rd MOLARS:Wisdom teeth or 3rd molars(akhal dant) comes very late( between 16 to 60 yrs). In many people they cannot come out because of lack of space for them to come out. They have very small roots and compressed crown. they can not come out because front there will be tooth and behind the curvature of bone will be there. with this they come out a little and get stucked between bone and tooth. They start pressing the adjacent tooth causing lot of pain. Over this tooth there will be small bone extension and over that the gum flap. When the person start chewing, the gum at this region is crushed between impacted tooth and its opposite tooth. This leads to severe swelling and pus formation  of the gum flap on the impacted tooth. This subsides with antibiotics but reoccurs in many cases due to lack of space for it to come out. This common in the lower jaw. Rarely seen in the upper jaw. Treatment being surgical removal of the tooth!