Numbness After 3 Weeks After Wisdom Teeth Extraction, What Should I do?

Looks like you are experiencing what is called paresthesia. Paresthesia is an altered feeling or sensation to an area. Anesthesia is total numbness/ no feeling. The mandibular nerve probable got irritated/ inflamed or bruised during the procedure (a known risk/ usually quite rare). The fact that you are experiencing tingling is a good sign that the nerve may be on it's way back to healing after the injury. We have seen this last for as little as a few days and for... more

Numbness following the extraction of a lower wisdom tooth is a well known risk of that type of surgery. It very often can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to return to normal. Occasionally, it never returns to normal. It all has to do with the trauma to your mandibular nerve which lies in your jaw very close to the roots of the wisdom tooth. If that nerve is totally severed, the feeling may never return to your jaw. More often than not, however, there might have been a slight... more