Wisdom teeth spread their roots the older they get.
Basically the roots look like this at first || and after they get settled in, they're more like this: _/\_ and at that point getting them out WILL suck.
So if you have any family history of your wisdom teeth being f'd up, get them removed as soon as possible. My top two wisdom teeth were out before I even noticed the dentist was doing anything.
Then I got stupid and chickened out, waited too long, and the bottom ones were an hour each to dig out piece by piece. Not fun.
I had the opposite problem: they were still very low down when they started impacting the other teeth, and as a result they were still rooted in the cranial nerve. I had to wait longer for them to grow out further and impact even harder before I could get them taken out without high risk of facial paralysis. As it was I still lost feeling in one half of my tongue.
It was worse in the beginning, now it is more like the front-left 1/3 is numb. No, I don't really bite it. It made speaking in the beginning difficult, but I've learned how to work around it.
Basically the roots look like this at first || and after they get settled in, they're more like this: _/\_ and at that point getting them out WILL suck.
So if you have any family history of your wisdom teeth being f'd up, get them removed as soon as possible. My top two wisdom teeth were out before I even noticed the dentist was doing anything.
Then I got stupid and chickened out, waited too long, and the bottom ones were an hour each to dig out piece by piece. Not fun.