9-Year-Old Becomes the Youngest to Ever Have a Wisdom Tooth Removed
A 9-year-old Virginia boy has become the youngest person to have a wisdom tooth extracted.
Guinness World Records said Ryan Scarpelli’s orthodontist noticed that the boy had a wisdom tooth and a molar growing on top of each other in the upper-left side of his mouth.
The “orthodontist said it needed to be removed so that the molar could drop properly…”
Ryan’s tooth was removed when he was 9 years and 327 days old, making him the youngest person to have a wisdom tooth extracted. The previous record holder, Matthew Adams, was only a few days older when his tooth was taken out at 9 years and 339 days in 2002.
Wisdom teeth, the last permanent teeth to come in, typically show up — and are often removed — in a person’s late teens or early 20s.
