"Wisdom teeth can cause pain and discomfort when they erupt into the mouth," he said. While a lot of people experience the emergence of wisdom teeth during their 20s, they can erupt later on in life. ...

A tooth is considered impacted if it fails to erupt through the gums, or erupts only partially by the expected age. Wisdom teeth or the third molars are the last teeth to come out or erupt. There is ...

Why do we have wisdom teeth? Wisdom teeth are the third and final set of molars that most people get in their late teens or early twenties. These teeth can be very useful to the mouth when healthy and ...

There are many potential reasons why wisdom teeth need to be removed. Below is the list of various situations when the extraction of these teeth is recommended: Patients usually experience ...

Drs. Dan Martin and Rachel Appelblatt at Tahoe Oral Surgery and Implant Center are your local dental implant and oral surgery specialists. They are experienced and board certified oral surgeons who ...

WISDOM tooth eruption process is likened to a person who enters an already congested elevator (the jaw with teeth), when they try to fit in, they step on people’s feet (nerves) as they shove ...

That throbbing pain in the back of your jaw might have you thinking about wisdom teeth removal. You’ve likely heard stories from friends or family about their own experiences. It seems like almost ...

Unusual complication of orofacial trauma. Occurs in all age groups. Suggests minimum monitoring required. Oro-facial trauma is common and forms a large component of any maxillofacial service workload.

As a parsimonious young adult with crap insurance and what I thought was a pretty decent set of choppers, I once let a decade elapse between visits to the dentist. I brush. I floss. I figured ...