Wisdom teeth removal helps prevent dental problems like pain and infection. This surgery often involves the removal of impacted teeth. Why Do Wisdom Teeth Need Removal? Wisdom teeth are the last of ...

Impacted teeth pose significant risks to oral health, ranging from cyst formation to arch crowding. Early detection remains the primary defense.

There is nothing wise about the way humans view wisdom teeth, according to many experts. "Removal of impacted teeth where there is no disease is controversial." Wisdom teeth, or a person's third and ...

Driver’s license, prom, ridding the body of vestigial teeth. All rites of passage for American adolescents. So things were right on track when, after a routine dentist visit during my oldest child’s ...

Mitchell Josephs, D.D.S. Question: After I had an upper front tooth removed and a three-tooth-bridge placed, I noticed an unsightly concave depression above the fake tooth of my bridge. This concavity ...

An impacted tooth is a tooth that, for some reason, has been blocked from breaking through the gum. Sometimes a tooth may be only partially impacted, meaning it has started to break through.

An Indian teen had a record 232 small "tooth-like structures" removed from his mouth due to a rare medical condition called complex odontoma. Ashik Gavai suffered jaw pain and swelling for more than a ...