The procedure for dental extraction typically involves a consultation to go over the specific situation of the patient, administration of anesthesia, loosening, and extraction of the tooth.

A healthy 45-year-old man experienced respiratory failure due to a giant life-threatening lung abscess caused by oral bacteria stemming from a wisdom tooth extraction. The case report was published in ...

A diabetic woman faced sudden blindness after a tooth extraction. Doctors diagnosed a severe eye infection, metastatic endophthalmitis. This condition occurs when bacteria travel from the mouth to the ...

Rachael Link is a registered dietitian and health writer based in San Francisco. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Central Missouri and holds a master’s degree from New York ...

Wisdom teeth are a third set of molars — the large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth — that usually emerge between the ages of 17 and 25. Scientists believe that wisdom teeth were essential for our ...

Children and teenagers underwent almost 43,000 "completely preventable" operations to remove rotting teeth last year, costing the NHS more than £36m, according to new figures. Analysis of NHS spending ...

Eruption is both a developmental and adaptive process, and continues throughout life. Overeruption can be expected to occur when an opposing tooth is lost. Overeruption of an unopposed tooth may ...