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What to Expect – before, during and after. To be better prepared for your oral or dental surgery and to make you feel more at ease, we would like to explain the entire process to you. Feel free to bring your headphones with you. What to Expect Upon arriving at the office, you will be…

Infection and inflammation are common even when there are no apparent symptoms. 10. Because there is limited space for wisdom teeth to erupt and because the surrounding gums are difficult to keep clean, infection and inflammation are common even when there are no apparent symptoms. Research shows that once inflammation takes hold, it is almost impossible…

Using dental implants to replace missing teeth and to support dentures is a very important part of dentistry today. But it took some time for it to be this way. When I was in my Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency program in the late 1980s, dental implants were the “new thing.” Very few people knew…

When wealthy Egyptians had missing teeth their teeth were replaced by extracted teeth from slaves or poor people. George Washington who suffered from infected and abscessed teeth and inflamed gums, had only one tooth left by 1789   His first set of dentures was spring loaded with a base made of hippopotamus ivory and teeth formed…

Has the tooth fairy knocked on your door too often? The fact is that a person should have thirty-two teeth in their mouth, four being wisdom teeth.  As we all know, with age come problems with our teeth.  Over time and for a variety of reasons, we may have lost some of those precious teeth. …

How to get wiser without wisdom …  Wisdom teeth do not improve with age.A common refrain from the parents of teenagers is that they have big mouths. Although that might be true, those mouths are usually not big enough for wisdom teeth to grow.  Early extraction can avoid complications and other health problems. Statistics are…