When your tooth breaks nothing major happens. Go to the dentist and have it looked at. If its a big chip then the dentist will fill it in with a clear liquid that soon hardens and blends in with your tooth.. If the chip is small then nothing will happen unless it's visible.
Check and see what type of stitches you have. Normally they put dissolving stitches in which tend to fall out in pieces and they may feel weird but quite normal.
It depends on the type of stitches they used, but more often times than not, they dissolve.
The stiches should dissolve over the next couple of days on their own - they are not removed.
if you have another tooth pushing it out , and it the tooth is comming from a different spot. It might be a surnumerary tooth - an extra wisdom tooth. But this should have been seen on a panoramic x-ray if it was taken in your late teens. It also might be a peace of root that was left out from the extraction of the wisdom tooth that was there.
As long as you are healing, you don't have to go back to have new stitches put in.
Sometimes parts of the extracted tooth break away during the process of removal. Fragments of bone can also break away and then work their way out of the gums.
I have had all my wisdom teeth removed and have never had stitches (Sweden). They were all removed in the same way by different dentists. Local anaesthetic followed by brute force pulling (sounds alot worse than it is). The "opening" left behind heals itself fairly easy. Just had a compressor against it for a few hours for some residual bleeding. Pulling a tooth is not much worse than any other treatment, however the healthier and the more visible the wisdom tooth is, the easier the pull will be.
After a wisdom tooth extraction, slight bleeding is very common. However if it continues after a long period of time (10 minutes-1 hour) see your dentist or a healthcare professional because you may require dissolvable stitches. Good Luck!
Normally a wisdom tooth is a third molar.
No. I am 61 and just had a wisdom tooth removed. No problem.
a wisdom tooth beginning to protrude
A wisdom tooth is one of the three molars. A molar is defined as a tooth with four cusps or points, and the wisdom tooth is simply the last molar to erupt and farthest back in the jaw.
Then you probably didn't need stitches.