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  2. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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    Alveolar osteitis of a socket after tooth extraction. Note lack of blood clot in socket and exposed alveolar bone. Dry-socket (Alveolar osteitis) is a painful phenomenon that most commonly occurs a few days after the removal of mandibular (lower) wisdom teeth. It typically occurs when the blood clot within the healing tooth extraction site is ...

  3. Coronectomy - Wikipedia

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    Coronectomy. Wisdom tooth with close association to the inferior alveolar nerve. 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 ...

  4. Wisdom tooth - Wikipedia

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    Wisdom teeth in the human mouth for permanent teeth. There are none in deciduous (children's) teeth. The third molar, commonly called wisdom tooth, is the most posterior of the three molars in each quadrant of the human dentition. The age at which wisdom teeth come through (erupt) is variable, [1] but this generally occurs between late teens ...

  5. Impacted wisdom teeth - Wikipedia

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    Impacted wisdom teeth is a condition where the third molars (wisdom teeth) are prevented from erupting into the mouth. [1] This can be caused by a physical barrier, such as other teeth, or when the tooth is angled away from a vertical position. [2] Completely unerupted wisdom teeth usually result in no symptoms, although they can sometimes ...

  6. Dental instrument - Wikipedia

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    Then, a pair of pincers would do the rest of the job, wiggling the tooth out of the gum until the extraction was complete. [8] The functionality of today's dental forceps come from the need to remove items from the mouth such as the cotton balls dentists place next to a patient's teeth or the rubber bands a patient needs for their braces. [9]

  7. Dental anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    A dental syringe is a syringe for the injection of a local anesthetic. [25] It consists of a breech-loading syringe fitted with a sealed cartridge containing an anesthetic solution. In 1928, Bayer Dental developed, coined and produced a sealed cartridge system under the registered trademark Carpule ®. The current trademark owner is Kulzer ...

  8. Alveolar osteitis - Wikipedia

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    The most common location of dry socket: in the socket of an extracted mandibular third molar (wisdom tooth). Since alveolar osteitis is not primarily an infection, there is not usually any pyrexia (fever) or cervical lymphadenitis (swollen glands in the neck), and only minimal edema (swelling) and erythema (redness) is present in the soft tissues surrounding the socket.

  9. Healing of periapical lesions - Wikipedia

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    Healing of periapical lesions. Apical periodontitis is typically the body's defense response to the threat of microbial invasion from the root canal. [1] Primary among the members of the host defense mechanism is the polymorphonuclear leukocyte, otherwise known as the neutrophil. The task of the neutrophil is to locate and destroy microbes that ...