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  2. Alveolar osteitis - Wikipedia

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    Overall, the rate of dry socket is about 0.5–5% for routine dental extractions, [2] [4] [5] and about 25–30% for impacted mandibular third molars (wisdom teeth which are buried in the bone). [1] Females are more frequently affected than males, but this appears to be related to oral contraceptive use rather than any underlying gender ...

  3. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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    There is evidence that use of antibiotics before and/or after impacted wisdom tooth extraction reduces the risk of infections by 66%, and lowers incidence of dry socket by one third. For every 19 people who are treated with an antibiotic following impacted wisdom tooth removal, one infection is prevented. [19]

  4. Pericoronitis - Wikipedia

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    Pericoronitis is often associated with partially erupted and impacted mandibular third molars (lower wisdom teeth), [4] often occurring at the age of wisdom tooth eruption (15-26). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Other common causes of similar pain from the third molar region are food impaction causing periodontal pain, pulpitis from dental caries (tooth decay ...

  5. Impacted wisdom teeth - Wikipedia

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    Wisdom teeth have been described in the ancient texts of Plato and Hippocrates, the works of Charles Darwin and in the earliest manuals of operative dentistry. It was the meeting of sterile technique, radiology, and anesthesia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that allowed the more routine management of impacted wisdom teeth.

  6. Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia

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    Wisdom teeth (often notated clinically as M3 for third molar) have long been identified as a source of problems and continue to be the most commonly impacted teeth in the human mouth. Impaction of the wisdom teeth results in a risk of periodontal disease and dental cavities. [29] Impacted wisdom teeth lead to pathology in 12% of cases. [30]

  7. Toothache - Wikipedia

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    Alveolar osteitis is a complication of tooth extraction (especially lower wisdom teeth) in which the blood clot is not formed or is lost, leaving the socket where the tooth used to be empty, and bare bone is exposed to the mouth. [29] The pain is moderate to severe, and dull, aching, and throbbing in character.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Osteonecrosis of the jaw - Wikipedia

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    The development of lesions is most frequent after invasive dental procedures, such as extractions, and is also known to occur spontaneously. There may be no symptoms for weeks or months, until lesions with exposed bone appear. [5] Lesions are more common on the mandible than the maxilla. Pain and neuropathy [6] Erythema and suppuration; Bad breath

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