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Should You Get Your Wisdom Tooth Removed? Factors To Consider Before The Procedure

Teeth are an essential and permanent part of our adult lives. We grow a set of milk teeth as kids and lose them in the following years, growing a new and permanent set if adult teeth by the age of 12 ...
Rolling Out

5 reasons to reconsider getting your wisdom teeth removed

When it comes to dental health, the removal of wisdom teeth is often a topic of considerable debate. While many of us go through this rite of passage without a second thought, recent discussions and ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask Dr. Universe: For those who have them, wisdom teeth tend to cause problems

Not everyone gets wisdom teeth. I asked my friend David Carsten about it. He studied biochemistry at Washington State University. Now he’s a dentist who teaches about dental sedation and anesthesia at ...
Yahoo

Ree Drummond Says She 'Declined Sedation' While Getting Tooth Pulled: 'It Made Me Feel Alive'

Ree Drummond is sharing details about her recent dental procedure and how 'elated' she felt to have her wisdom tooth removed without sedation. The Pioneer Woman star, 54, posted about the experience ...
Penn Live

Medi-Cal’s dental care gap: getting a tooth pulled is easy — much harder to get an implant

When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred ...
KSL

Idaho woman shares her story of how getting wisdom teeth removed led to her cancer diagnosis

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — An Idaho Falls, Idaho, woman's life changed in an instant when getting her wisdom teeth removed led her to a cancer diagnosis. Brittany Madder, 26, is a Thunder Ridge High School ...