Do I need to take anti-inflammatory medicine before extracting my wisdom tooth that is rotten and painful?

Diseases are very common in people's daily lives. Many factors in people's daily lives can cause the occurrence of diseases, and wisdom tooth decay is a common disease. Many people do not know much about the treatment of this disease, and are not sure whether anti-inflammatory treatment is needed before wisdom teeth are extracted. So, do you need to take anti-inflammatory medicine before you remove the wisdom tooth that is rotten and painful?

First, if wisdom teeth are rotten and painful, do you need to take anti-inflammatory drugs before removing them? If you find that the wisdom tooth is impacted and repeatedly causes inflammation, it should be removed as soon as possible to avoid causing other symptoms or diseases. If pericoronitis of the wisdom tooth has formed, antibiotic treatment should be given and the tooth should be removed after the inflammation is controlled. Wisdom tooth refers to the third molar on the innermost alveolar bone in the human mouth, which is exactly the eighth tooth counting from the central incisor. Because it erupts very late, generally between the ages of 16 and 25, when a person's physical and psychological development are close to maturity, it symbolizes the "arrival of wisdom" and is therefore commonly called "wisdom tooth." There are great differences between individuals in the growth of wisdom teeth. Normally, there should be four teeth that are symmetrical in the upper and lower left and right directions. Some people have less than four or even none, and very few people have more than four. The age difference of eruption is also very large. For some people, it erupts before the age of 20, some people erupt at the age of 40 or 50, or never erupt in their lifetime. This is all normal.

Second, modern medicine generally believes that wisdom teeth are remnants of human evolution. Since wisdom teeth grow at the end of the alveolar bone, the alveolar bone of modern humans has degenerated to varying degrees in length, width, and strength due to increasingly refined eating, resulting in it being unable to provide sufficient space for the eruption of wisdom teeth. As a result, wisdom teeth often erupt ectopically or are impacted due to lack of space. In addition, the degeneration of the wisdom teeth themselves can also lead to insufficient number of erupted teeth and asymmetric eruption. These eruption abnormalities, coupled with the difficulty in cleaning and prevention, usually manifest clinically as pericoronitis of wisdom teeth, caries of wisdom teeth or adjacent teeth, periodontitis, pulpitis and other diseases, causing severe pain. Therefore, it is recommended to preventively extract abnormal or asymmetrically erupted wisdom teeth as early as possible.

Do I need to take anti-inflammatory drugs before having my wisdom teeth removed because they are rotten and painful? For wisdom teeth that grow horizontally or in other complex positions, you should first take an X-ray to check the position of the roots. It is often necessary to perform surgery to cut the gums before extraction, and because the surgical incision is relatively large, special attention must be paid to avoid excessive bleeding and possible swelling of the face after the operation.