When is the best time for surgery?

There never is a best time for any kind of surgery.

But if you were to pick a moment for an ASSESSMENT of your wisdom teeth risk, by a wisdom teeth specialist... it is always now, and let the wisdom tooth specialist help you decide.

Remember... not EVERYONE develops wisdom teeth. Not ALL wisdom teeth need removal.

If you are having acute problems, well the best time to have wisdom teeth surgery (if that is what is being offered as your solution), is NOW.

Sometimes though, you have already developed a problem with your wisdom tooth which is hidden, and only apparent on x-ray... like a cyst, or dental decay, or even a local infection you didn't know was there...

But if you have no issue. Meaning you are still growing... you are still developing... You do not have any symptoms... And you are seen to have developing wisdom teeth on your routine dental x-ray... then what we are potentially talking about is "prophylactic removal" of your wisdom teeth.

Prophylactic removal of wisdom teeth is highly contentious. Is it necessary or not? Are you going to develop problems, or are you likley to not ever develop problems. Are you unnecassarily exposing yourself to risks from prophylactic surgery?

Prophylactic wisdom tooth assessment and surgical removal is definately the realm of trained specialists in wisdom teeth surgery... meaning it is in the relam of a specialist Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon to advise you.

And no specialist surgeon is going to have a default "yes" answer to their removal in YOU. Everyone is different, and evryone has a different answer dependent upon their specific needs, and that is based on an assessment of you, during a consultation.

If you are simply having prophylactic removal, after the specialist has assessed you, and they have determined that YES they will become an issue... and there is no issue yet... then the best time for your surgery... is your own time, and guided by the advice of your wisdom teeth specialist.