Hello all,
Has anyone had any luck getting their wisdom teeth (3rd molars) to come in straight? I currently have all 4 wisdom teeth impacted to some extent ( like others on this forum I'm sure). I am 25. My top 2 wisdom teeth are poking out of my gums slightly, but they are definitely crooked/skewed. My bottom 2 are not poking out ( I have seen on a panoramic X ray they are basically horizontal so they are below the gum line). 

My question is, can I still save my wisdom teeth and avoid extraction at some point? Or is it that since they are already crooked, it is too late to have them come in totally straight? I would like to avoid extraction of them at all costs... I understand that the bottom 2 may be too late to save, but I was hoping since the top 2 are at least poking out that they can eventually come in straight (over 1-2 years or more, I don't expect instant results).

Here are the options I think.

• 1. Find a way to combine perfect tongue posture, or get palatal expansion, and hope that I get enough forward and transverse growth to allow my wisdom teeth to come in right.
• 2. I read about some kind of procedure that will use a spring on your wisdom teeth pushing/pulling on your other teeth to straighten out the wisdom teeth. However, this may only work on early-stage wisdom teeth, like before age 20, or it could only work on partially impacted teeth but not my lower 2 that are totally horizontal. 

We all fall into 3 categories of how wisdom teeth come in, although there is overlap since most people have some variability. This determines if we need them pulled or not.

• 1) The people with enough space who have the teeth come in straight.
• 2) The people with some space who have them partially erupt.
• 3) The people with barely any space whose teeth stay under the gums and never erupt.

I am a bit worried about mewing, which I have done for about 3 months. I never have had any wisdom tooth pain before, but in the past few days I am feeling a bit of soreness around my partially-erupted wisdom teeth. What if mewing and expansion causes my wisdom teeth to move enough that they start causing pain or get infected and need to be removed? This is 1 small defect of mewing, since when the wisdom teeth erupt, they are more likely to get infected. Has anyone gone from crooked to straight wisdom teeth? Thanks everyone.