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2. Impacted wisdom teeth - Wikipedia

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   A treatment controversy exists about the need for and timing of the removal of disease-free impacted wisdom teeth. Supporters of early removal cite the increasing risks for extraction over time and the costs of monitoring the wisdom teeth. Supporters for retaining wisdom teeth cite the risk and cost of unnecessary surgery.

3. Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia

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   Impacted wisdom teeth are classified by the direction and depth of impaction, the amount of available space for tooth eruption and the amount of soft tissue or bone that covers them. The classification structure allows clinicians to estimate the probabilities of impaction, infections and complications associated with wisdom teeth removal. [31]

4. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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   The lower teeth, and in particular the lower wisdom teeth, can therefore be in close proximity to this nerve. Damage to the inferior alveolar nerve is a risk of lower wisdom tooth removal (and other surgical procedures in the mandible). [20]

5. Coronectomy - Wikipedia

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   When extracting lower wisdom teeth, coronectomy is a treatment option involving removing the crown of the lower wisdom tooth, whilst keeping the roots in place in healthy patients. This option is given to patients as an alternative to extraction when the wisdom teeth are in close association with the inferior alveolar nerve , and so used to ...

6. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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   Orchiectomy is the surgical removal of the testicles, also called orchidectomy, castration, or neutering. Ostectomy is the surgical removal of bone. Operculectomy is the surgical removal of the gum flaps that cover erupted wisdom teeth.

7. Tooth transplant - Wikipedia

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   B) Extraction socket of unrestorable upper right first permanent molar. C) Extracted upper right wisdom tooth (FDI:18) immediately transplanted into socket of upper right first permanent molar. D) Transplanted wisdom tooth splinted into position. E & F) Gold shell crown fitted onto transplanted tooth to restore contact with adjacent tooth and ...