As wisdom teeth are often crowded, food can easily become trapped which can lead to dental complications. Whether you use an electric toothbrush or a manual toothbrush, maintaining oral hygiene is ...

Have you just been to the dentist's chair to say goodbye to your wisdom teeth? For a few days, it's out of the question to ...

Wisdom teeth are removed from thousands of healthy young mouths every day in this country. This surgery is not risk-free and, for families who lack dental insurance, it is costly.

Most wisdom teeth come up to the surface but can’t come through all the way, pushing neighboring teeth and the jaw bone from inside the gums. As you’d expect this ongoing impact can cause pain ...

Wisdom teeth don't usually grow in until you're between 16 and 18 years old. And by that time, chances are your other 28 teeth have taken up all the available space in your mouth.

Wisdom teeth are the last teeth to erupt in permanent human dentition. Wisdom teeth removal is a surgical process to remove unwanted third molar teeth which are causing pain or damage to the gums.

Aside from a clean bill of health (no cavities or other issues at all in 22 years), dentist still wants the wisdom teeth out as a preventative measure and since things are a bit crowded.<BR><BR>I ...

First, impacted wisdom teeth may cause us problems, but they rarely kill us. Even if they did, for evolution to select against wisdom teeth, impacted molars would have to cull us from the gene ...