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2. Impacted wisdom teeth - Wikipedia

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   Supporters for retaining wisdom teeth cite the risk and cost of unnecessary surgery. The condition can be common, with up to 72% of the Swedish population affected. [4] Wisdom teeth have been described in the ancient texts of Plato and Hippocrates, the works of Charles Darwin and in the earliest manuals

3. 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 ...

4. Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia

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   The last teeth to come in man are molars called 'wisdom-teeth', which come at the age of twenty years, in the case of both sexes. Cases have been known in women upwards of eighty years old where at the very close of life the wisdom-teeth have come up, causing great pain in their coming; and cases have been known of the like phenomenon in men too.

5. 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]

6. Oral and maxillofacial surgery - Wikipedia

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   D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) and D.M.D. (Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry or Doctor of Dental Medicine) are the same degrees. D.M.D. and D.D.S. represent the same education. The letters used are a function of university discretion, both degrees represent an identical curriculum, set of educational requirements and level of educational ...

7. Dental restoration - Wikipedia

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   There are numerous types of precision attachments (also known as combined restorations) to aid removable prosthetic attachment to teeth, including magnets, clips, hooks, and implants which may themselves be seen as a form of dental restoration. The CEREC method is a chairside CAD/CAM restorative procedure. An optical impression of the prepared ...