[lukaszkups]

> In other medical contexts, such as a visit to a general practitioner or a cardiologist, we are fairly accustomed to seeking a second opinion before agreeing to surgery or an expensive regimen of pills with harsh side effects. But in the dentist’s office—perhaps because we both dread dental procedures and belittle their medical significance—the impulse is to comply without much consideration, to get the whole thing over with as quickly as possible.

Around 10 years ago, during one of the dentists appointment, my wife had to perform an x-ray scan of the whole mouth. Besides the stuff dentist wanted to confirm, he found out that she has her wisdom teeth grew in a little problematic direction that might become painful in very short time and suggested to remove them before that happens.

That said, such operation would require narcosis. Both of us are very skeptical when someone wants to do something for us that requires putting us into that state so we've gone to another dentist to get another opinion.

Turned out, that other dentist said that he don't see any problem with my wife's wisdom teeth and warned us, that the operation other dentist suggested was very dangerous and had high probability that it could break some jaw nerves very easily which could lead to partly face paralysis.

So yeah, 10 years has passed and my wife has never experienced any pain caused by her wisdom teeth - maybe got lucky or maybe that 1st dentist was just plain wrong.

But in the end I've always tend to be warned and while having any doubts, it's worth to spend some money just to double check if suggested treatment is really good for us (or necessary).