Horizantally impacted tooth I need advice?!

Question: Horizantally impacted tooth I need advice?

I have my wisdom tooth both sides of my lower teeth are abnormal. They had grown horizantaly impacted, it only bothers me some time and if it is it feels only like a cavity. My dentist told me that it is hard for him to pull out my wisdom tooth and so he needs to pull out also the teeth besides it. If thats the case, I was thinking that my it would be a big loss for me because it might make hard to chew things.

Here's a sample image of my situation:

http://img156.imageshack.us/i/sssgm.jpg/

note: this is not my teeth i just took it from wikepedia but it look exactly thesame with my situation.
The red arrow is obviously my wisdom
The blue arrow points the teeth that is to be taken out if ever i want my wisdom tooth to be remove.

Advices and suggestions please. All answers is very much appreciated.

Answers:

GET A SECOND OPINION NOW!!!! first of all I have been a dental assistant for 10+ years and have never heard of needing to pull mandibular second molars to extract impacted third molars. this is crazy. Is this a general dentist recommending this? IF SO GET TO AN ORAL SURGEON! Also, no general dentist i have worked for will even think of extracting horizontally impacted wisdom teeth they ALL refer to oral surgeon. Also, your teeth are not abnormal it is VERY common to have horizontally impacted, vertically impacted ect. wisdom teeth. The third molars (wisdom teeth) are the most common teeth in the mouth to have abnormalities. It is actually much less common to see fully erupted and well placed third molars in an adult. Good luck and NEVER let any one extract teeth that are perfectly healthy with out a second opinion.

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