For many Americans, conventional wisdom says that third-molar extraction is part of growing up. Meanwhile, in dentistry, there is considerable debate about the clinical indications that should lead to ...

Tooth extractions, including ones involving infection, periodontal disease and crowding issues, are one of the most common dental procedures. An estimated 10 million wisdom teeth are extracted from ...

Wisdom teeth are the last set of molars that usually appear in late teens or early twenties. For some people, they grow in ...

Actual extraction difficulty of all third molars (M3s) correlated well with the opinion of surgeons on the importance of individual predictive factors. In a US clinic, 14 surgeons first estimated ...