At the age of 16, my dentist removed both wisdom teeth in my lower jaw, although in my case this was not necessary.
It only became clear to me afterwards that she only wanted to make quick money.
Is this a mistake in hindsight? Would i have better jaw angles now if they were still in it?
Neither me can say anything about the decision in your case or what the situation potentially could've been else. In general I can say that I have no understanding of pulling healthy teeth, and that you literally can see the dollar signs in the eyes of some dentists when they see your wisdome teeth.
In my case I am a bit angry of how they've treated my wisdome teeth. I had one which was growing horizontal and ever since the first x-ray it was seen the dentists told me this will have to come out. In my country all dental work is free up to 20 years or so. Well convenient enough they lingered on this and wanted to wait and I was told it might erupt more and making it easier to extract. At about 25 when all insurance and liability from the public health care for this was gone, I was suddenly told it's time to remove it. When I got to the surgeon he told me there was no way it was going to change it's position and healing is easier the earlier I do it. And also it was tangled with the alveolar nerve, so he didn't want to remove it fully, but instead cut if the crown and left the roots. If they would've sent me in as a teen they might had been able to fully remove it.
So this is one of the wisdome teeth where I fear they might "see something strange", and will have to do a complicated extraction as there is no crown left to grab.
So in general I would say, don't touch healthy wisdome teeth, and treat troubled wisdome teeth as soon as possible. The motivation they often give is that it's harder to clean and that people get problem with them later because of bad cleaning. In my opinion we might as well pull all teeth then, it gives 0 chance of future cavities.
