It’s best to skip hard, crunchy, and chewy foods after your wisdom teeth removal, so you don’t disrupt the healing process.

A new study challenges the belief that pulling wisdom teeth has a negative effect on taste. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found that extraction not only can ...

Laser therapy has numerous applications and may improve oral wound healing by encouraging cell regeneration, lessening pain, and modulating the immune system, but its use after tooth extraction ...

Having trouble with pain or swelling near your wisdom teeth in Chicago? Discover the key signs that mean removal might be ...

A 26-year-old woman experienced vertigo after having two teeth surgically removed, according to a case report published on August 13 in the British Dental Journal. Only four similar cases have been ...

Dry socket is the most common complication following a tooth extraction. Tooth extraction involves removing your tooth from its socket in your jawbone. After a tooth extraction, you’re at risk of ...

Tooth extraction can be performed safely in patients on antiplatelet drugs when local hemostatic measures are taken, thereby sidestepping the heightened thrombotic risk from temporarily stopping ...

I looked like a blowfish, but not of the Hootie variety. On Wednesday, I went to the dentist to have one of my upper right jaw teeth extracted. The right side of my face eventually swelled up to ...

I haven't seen a dentist for about eight years. Until today.<BR><BR>Among my regular teeth, I had no cavities. However, both my upper wisdom teeth have cavities. At first, the dentist referred to them ...