Blog - Tooth Extractions

Your wisdom teeth are the third set of molars and usually grow during your teens and early twenties. Wisdom teeth were helpful for our ancestors as it was more common to lose your teeth due to their food habits. In this day and age, it is not common to lose your teeth by your teens and because of this your ...

In dentistry, a tooth is described as impacted when it is prevented from erupting into the mouth fully. Most often, a tooth becomes impacted when its pathway of eruption is blocked by another tooth, or by a part of the jaw bone, or sometimes even by abnormal growths in the jaws such as cysts or tumors.

Impacted Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom teeth are ...