I remember when my wisdom teeth started causing me problems in my early 20s.<p>The lower ones caused some kind of infection that wasn&#x27;t treatable and my gums started leaking a terrible puss that was pretty disgusting to be frank about it. Perhaps it would have all sorted itself out in a few months. But throwing up 4 or 5 times a day was making it hard to get nutrients so I went in, got knocked out, and them hacked out of my head.<p>The were so impacted the dentist had to break part of my jaw and I was unable to open my mouth for about 8 weeks while it healed and it was months before I could fully open my mouth again.<p>But guess what? No puss, no more barfing and I haven&#x27;t had any problems since. So I think that was probably the right choice and if I had to do it over again I would have had them carved out of my skull 5 years earlier before they had become a painful and disgusting problem.