Preliminary discussion on the whole life-cycle management of wisdom teeth health

Abstract

The impaction rate of wisdom teeth is increasingly high, leading to more and more serious clinical problems. For a long time, the primary approach to managing wisdom teeth has been direct extraction, with a notable lack of systematic and diversified treatment methods. This article introduces, for the first time, the concept of whole life-cycle health management for wisdom teeth and suggests that the window for wisdom teeth life-cycle health management should be moved forward to the tooth germ stage. For tooth germs of wisdom teeth with severe risks, timely and necessary intervention should be administered. For normally erupting wisdom teeth, efforts should be made to maintain their health so they can function over the long term. For impacted wisdom teeth that have not caused related clinical symptoms, careful observation and cautious extraction should be considered. If necessary, techniques such as orthodontics and autotransplantation can be used to functionalize them. For impacted wisdom teeth that have caused clinical symptoms, functional oral surgical principles should be applied to reduce surgical trauma and prevent intraoperative and postoperative complications using advanced clinical techniques.