While having your wisdom teeth out is typically seen as a teenage rite of passage, the truth is that people of all ages ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) –During winter break many students and parents brace for a common rite of passage: wisdom teeth removal. Dr. Jason Auerbach, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon based in New Jersey, sheds ...

Getting your wisdom teeth extracted might sound stressful and painful, but it’s something that many people experience. According to Gentle Dental, 70% of people will eventually need to get their ...

Driver’s license, prom, ridding the body of vestigial teeth. All rites of passage for American adolescents. So things were right on track when, after a routine dentist visit during my oldest child’s ...

Not everyone gets wisdom teeth. I asked my friend David Carsten about it. He studied biochemistry at Washington State University. Now he’s a dentist who teaches about dental sedation and anesthesia at ...

Stephanie Pesterfield's now 17-year-old son Lonnie went from a healthy teen to being listed for a lung transplant in less than a year's time, she tells PEOPLE A Colorado mom who took her son to get ...

“Both wisdom teeth and the appendix are known for their unpredictability,” says Dr Hamid Raihan, Sr. Consultant & Head – ...

Young people who take opioids after surgery may develop an addiction to them. Researchers at the University of Michigan found young people between the ages of 13 and 30 are nearly three times more ...