When you are considering extracting an impacted third molar, on what information do you base your decision? The findings of a new study might help you in your next case, as researchers looked at ...

Actual extraction difficulty of all third molars (M3s) correlated well with the opinion of surgeons on the importance of individual predictive factors. In a US clinic, 14 surgeons first estimated ...

Adolescents and young adults who fill an opioid prescription for wisdom teeth extractions are more than twice as likely to continue filling opioid prescriptions weeks or months later, according to new ...

Nonopioids were noninferior on days 2 and 3 and during the postoperative period, with all confidence intervals within the margin of noninferiority. HealthDay News — For patients undergoing impacted ...

1 Department of oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, periodontics and oral radiology, faculty of dentistry, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 2 School of Medicine, The University of ...

Nonopioid therapy may be superior to opioid therapy for pain control after third molar surgery among both men and women.