A person generally has 4 wisdom teeth, which may be missing due to human evolution. One can go to the hospital's stomatology department to take a panoramic radiograph of the whole mouth, so as to understand the condition of wisdom teeth.
After wisdom teeth grow out, they may cause defects in some teeth, uneven arrangement of teeth, and pain in some patients. Therefore, wisdom teeth can be removed in a regular hospital. A person can generally grow four wisdom teeth, which are also the third molars, located in four areas of the upper, lower, left, and right, with one in each area. Therefore, the maximum normal number of wisdom teeth is four. However, due to human evolution and jawbone regression, wisdom teeth can also undergo regression, so some people may have congenital missing of individual wisdom teeth, but not all four wisdom teeth will be missing, only 1-2 wisdom teeth. In addition, some people's wisdom teeth are not missing but have not erupted, completely embedded in the jawbone. Therefore, to find out how many wisdom teeth they have, one can go to the stomatology department of a regular hospital to take a panoramic radiograph of the whole mouth, and they can see how many wisdom teeth they have, how many have erupted, and how many are embedded. Whether the embedded wisdom teeth will erupt in the future.
In addition, there are also a few people who can grow an extra tooth called the fourth molar in the distal part of the third molar. Clinically, there are many impacted wisdom teeth due to insufficient eruption space, causing various types of impacted conditions such as horizontal tilt. This will not only cause damage to the anterior teeth but also cause uneven alignment of the entire dentition, so it is recommended to remove such wisdom teeth as soon as possible.
