Davary & Smith Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, a specialty oral surgery practice serving Loudoun County and Northern Virginia, ...

Patients who regularly use marijuana may require higher doses of anesthesia when undergoing wisdom teeth removal, according to a new study in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (JOMS).

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 ...

Patients frequently ask what our specialty truly involves. While many people associate us primarily with wisdom teeth removal ...

We are missionaries and live in Nicaragua. My daughter came home for the summer and we decided to get her 4 wisdom teeth pulled. Two were badly impacted, so the dentist suggested to have partial ...

Wisdom teeth are a third set of molars — the large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth — that usually emerge between the ages of 17 and 25. Scientists believe that wisdom teeth were essential for our ...

Affected wisdom teeth do not directly cause TMJ disorders to occur. However, growing wisdom teeth can result in jaw pain and discomfort, similar to the symptoms experienced in people with TMJ ...

Most people expect their wisdom teeth to emerge at some point during the late teens and early adult years. But while many people have one to four wisdom teeth, some people don’t have any at all.