Yesterday I saw a news story that a woman in Tangshan, Hebei Province, had her wisdom teeth pulled out for an hour. The person said that the doctor shook her wisdom teeth for more than an hour, and then dragged it down and came down. As soon as the news comes out, many readers may think of the experience of tooth extraction: after lying down on the tooth chair, the hammer drill will start working together, and I believe that many people will be afraid of tooth extraction.
Wisdom teeth are the third molar teeth of humans, that is, the eighth tooth that counts from the front teeth to the left and right, and is also the most common impacted tooth. Impacted teeth refer to teeth that are improperly positioned in the jawbone due to various reasons, including resistance from adjacent teeth, bone and soft tissues, and can only partially erupt or cannot erupt at all. Because the impacted teeth cannot erupt normally, their teeth may be blocked by adjacent teeth, or they may be completely buried by bone tissue, and the teeth and gums are easily cleaned and not in place, breeding bacteria, causing bad breath, caries, uneven dentition, pericoronitis, etc.
Impacted tooth extraction is a very common procedure in stomatology. Understanding the patient's own condition and adjacency relationships of the impacted tooth before surgery, such as the position relationship between the tooth and the neural tube, the direction of growth in the alveolar bone, etc., is extremely important for the development of a specific tooth extraction plan: the dentist can accurately extract the impacted tooth, and the patient can also reduce pain and complications. Therefore, before the tooth extraction, the patient needs to receive the corresponding oral X-ray tooth scan. Oral panoramic X-ray is a very common examination in oral examination because of its fast imaging speed, low radiation dose, affordable, and can help dentists fully understand the patient's oral condition.
Oral panoramic X-ray, also known as curved tomography, is a major innovation in the history of dental photography. The oral panorama is to arrange the upper and lower jaws in a curved distribution on an X-ray, which can fully display the upper and lower jaws, upper and lower jaw dentition, alveolar bones, and also clearly show the maxillary sinuses, temporomandibular joints, etc. Oral panoramas can observe the health of the full-mouth teeth, and at the same time check whether there are caries, the condition of impacted teeth, whether the gums are atrophied, etc. Wisdom tooth extraction, orthodontics, dental implants, and dental restorations are required to take oral panoramas to assess the condition of the teeth. If the patient's impacted teeth are long and transverse, the difficulty of removing this tooth is much higher than that of ordinary teeth, and it will take longer.
