As the title states I'm a 67yr old senior and I've been told many yrs ago and of course even lately that I have an empacted wisdom tooth but because my jaw bone on the x ray shows to be very thin, most doctors said to leave it alone. One oral surgeon told me that if he were to remove it most likely my jaw bone would crack and he would have to have me transported to a hospital where he would have to extract it from the outside of my jaw. Well this scared me enough to just forget about it at the time but now I'm feeling pain, sensitivity, heachaches , discomfort around the ear on that side of my mouth. I'm thinking the time is come but you can understand my fear at this point in my life. What do you think the out come will be for me in this situation. Of course I just retired recently and now am on medicare with no dental insurance. I'm really bummed out about all of this .