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I had my bottom right tooth removed in July since it was impacted pretty badly and causing me terrible pain. I wanted to have the left one pulled out too just in case. The oral surgeon ended up only doing the right one because it was more difficult to pull out than they though. The roots were hooked or curved which made it difficult to pull out. The idiot I am decided to go with laughing gas instead of being knocked out, so I was awake for the whole procedure. The oral surgeons were cool though, They refunded my money for the second tooth, and said they wouldn't charge for the nerve gas again if I decided to come back to have the left one extracted. Luckily, the left one hasn't caused much pain, but my fear is if it does cause pain in the future, and needs to be extracted, that there'd a risk of damaging the nerve in my jaw.

See, the reason why dentists recommend getting them removed at a young age, is to extract them before the roots grow down into your jawbone or get entangled into the nerves in your jaw. Because if the teeth hurt when you're older, extracting them with the roots are fully developed is more of a risk to damaging the jaw nerves. Sure, they may grow into normal healthy straightened teeth. But if they grow in the wrong way or get impacted to the point it causes severe pain, it makes it harder to extract.

It's a gamble to have them extracted at an early age. Extracting them could cause problems down the line, but not extracting them could be worse.

Basically, waiting until the teeth cause you severe pain in the worse thing you can do.