Multiple sclerosis can affect many areas of your daily life, including dental care. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis and the medications you take for these symptoms can lead to an increased need for ...

The procedure for dental extraction typically involves a consultation to go over the specific situation of the patient, administration of anesthesia, loosening, and extraction of the tooth.

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

Can you identify the "never events" in dentistry -- patient care incidents that safety experts agree should never happen? The concept of these never events is familiar in medicine, but its use in ...

As part of a group audit, prospective data have been collected on the reasons for tooth extraction in general dental practice. Variability was observed in the number of teeth extracted by surgeon.

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 ...

An online questionnaire, containing 36 dichotomous, multiple choice and Likert scale rating questions, was distributed among students of 56 different dental schools. After excluding schools where <20 ...

Here's a simple solution to an expensive problem that Medicare likely will not cover.