Does it hurt to remove the upper wisdom tooth or the lower wisdom tooth?

The lower wisdom teeth are more painful than the upper wisdom teeth.

The lower jaw bone is relatively dense, and the wisdom teeth are more resistant to eruption. It takes more force to break through the resistance during extraction, which is likely to lead to relatively greater trauma and more obvious postoperative pain. Secondly, the lower wisdom teeth are usually located closer to the lower alveolar nerve. The extraction operation may cause certain effects on the nerve, increasing the risk and degree of postoperative pain, and even causing some neuro-related complications. In addition, from the point of view of surgical difficulty, due to the location and anatomical structure of mandibular wisdom teeth, extraction surgery is often more complicated, the operation time may be longer, which will also make the postoperative pain relatively more serious. In contrast, maxillary wisdom teeth are relatively loose, the eruption resistance is relatively small, the operation is relatively easy, the trauma is small, and the postoperative pain is usually lighter.

Patients who want to extract wisdom teeth need to seek medical attention in time and take systematic examination and treatment.