Orthodontic treatment plays a pivotal role in managing dental crowding and malocclusion, while its implications on third molar development have attracted substantial clinical interest. The interplay ...

Nonopioid therapy may be superior to opioid therapy for pain control after third molar surgery among both men and women.

Adolescents and young adults who fill an opioid prescription for wisdom teeth extractions are more than twice as likely to continue filling opioid prescriptions weeks or months later, according to new ...

Inserting gauze coated with an antibiotic-corticosteroid ointment into a wisdom tooth extraction site may control dry socket, infection, and pain. The findings come from a study published earlier this ...