Originally posted by ReVo
Actually my host dad had surgery just recently to get his wisdom teeth taken off. He's 33 . He's situation had gone so bad that the doctor asked if he could use his X-rays as examples to his students as to what will happen if you don't get your wisdom teeth out early. And when he went to the surgery, they said he had a 1 in 20 chance of walking out of there with all feeling gone from his jaw forever.
He still can't eat anything solid, and has to take painkillers every now and then...

So yah remember kids, procrastination with wisdom teeth is baaaad
Was he one of those people that should've had them removed, but never did, or did he just let them rot? I know that wisdom teeth have weaker enamel and thus are prone to tooth decay more so than the rest of the teeth.