Will tooth extraction affect memory?

Tooth extraction is a method of solving dental problems. It is quite common in life, and it does have a good effect on solving tooth damage. However, since teeth are closely connected to nerves, it is easy to cause certain effects on the body during tooth extraction. For example, will tooth extraction affect memory? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand it.

The relationship between tooth extraction and nerves, IQ, and memory:

Tooth extraction may indeed injure nerves, especially when extracting mandibular wisdom teeth (impacted teeth, impacted teeth), because the lower alveolar socket covers many nerves, and these nerves are located inside the mandible, closest to the root tip of the wisdom teeth, and are easily injured when extracting mandibular wisdom teeth. The main symptom is numbness of the skin on the same side of the mandible, but the nerves have a strong self-repair function and usually recover in about 3-6 months.

But when it comes to the fact that wisdom tooth extraction will affect IQ and memory, it can only be said to be a misunderstanding and coincidence. Wisdom teeth usually grow out around the age of 20 (some people only grow them in their 40s or 50s, and some people never grow them in their entire lives). At this time, people's physiology and mind tend to be mature, and their intelligence has basically reached a stable state, and will not be affected by tooth extraction. However, some people feel that their memory does decline after having their wisdom teeth removed? That's because people's memory starts to decline after the age of 20, and it happens to be the time for wisdom teeth to be extracted, so people attribute the decline in memory to this. This is what we call a coincidence. In addition, there are only peripheral nerves under the wisdom tooth socket. Even if this part is damaged, it will not affect the brain nerves (human intelligence depends on the function of the human central nervous system, mainly the cerebral cortex), let alone affect IQ and memory.

Some things to note before tooth extraction:

1. Do not extract teeth during women's menstrual period, the three months before and after pregnancy, and during breastfeeding.

2. Pay attention to rest the day before tooth extraction. Stress, poor sleep and fatigue can easily increase the burden on the body's organs.

3. Avoid the body being in an inflammatory period or having injuries or surgeries in the recent period to avoid infection.

4. When fasting, blood sugar levels drop, and emotional tension can easily cause fainting.