wisdom teeth surgery

Patients Wisdom Teeth Extraction Results in Reactive Arthritis

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An interesting article titled “Reactive Arthritis Resulting From Postoperative Complications of Third Molar Extraction: A Case Report,” appears in Cureus in August 23, 2022, written by Lauren Maytin and Jeffrey Morrison (vol. 14, no. 8, pp. e28325). The article presents a case report of a 23 year old woman who develped reactive arthritis after wisdom teeth extraction. In the article the authors discuss a 23 year old woman who had a history of lower back and joint pain but developed more severe of symptoms of bilateral shoulder pain, decreased range of motion in her left shoulder, and worsening lower back after having an infected infected wisdom tooth extracted. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and and was prescribed adalimumab. Her laboratory results showed elevated indicators of inflammatory activity that were positive for HLA-B27. The woman presented to two weeks after wisdom … Read more

Horizontally Impacted Wisdom Teeth on Both Sides

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An interesting article titled “Impacted Third Molars, A Rare Occurrence of Identical Bilateral Impacted Mandibular Third Molars in Linguo-Buccal Location: A Case Report” written by Shaul Hameed Kolarkodi and et al. appears in Cureus (vol. 13, no. 12, e20858). The article describes the case of a 20 year old man who had bilateral horizontally impacted lower wisdom teeth which found on a panoramic radiograph and also later confirmed with cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging. In the article the authors described how impacted wisdom teeth are when they cannot erupt into the proper position. They mention how doctors encounter many types of impaction of wisdom teeth teeth and mention how having horizontally impacted lower wisdom teeth on both sides is rare. Impacted wisdom teeth can happen due to a lack of space or a pathological change that can disrupt the … Read more

Charli XCX Latest Celebrity to Have Wisdom Teeth Removed

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Charli XCX is the latest celebrity to have wisdom teeth removed. In the past many other celebrities who have had wisdom teeth extracted have been discussed on this site. See for example the posts Celebrities who have had Wisdom Teeth Extracted and Recent Celebrities to have Wisdom Teeth Removal. Charli XCX, who real name is Charlotte Emma Aitchison, is a 30 year old English singer and songwriter. Charli shared a photo of her lying in a hospital bed on Thursday January 5th, 2023. In the photo she is seen with with giant gauze pack in her mouth, a monitoring device connected to her forehead, one shoulder falling out of her hospital gown, and the other shoulder with a blood pressure cuff. In the caption of the photo Charli said, “all my wisdom has gone. dumb and inexplicable decisions only from now on.” Charli … Read more

Using Bupivacaine with Wisdom Teeth Removal Results in Less Opioids Prescribed

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An interesting article titled “A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study of the Effect of Liposomal Bupivacaine on Postoperative Opioid Prescribing After Third Molar Extraction,” written by Stuart E. Lieblich and et al. appears in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (vol. 79, pp. 1401-1408, 2021). The study seeks to explore if patients who have lower wisdom teeth removed using liposomal bupivacaine need less opioids than those wo do not have liposomal bupivacaine. In the study the authors performed a retrospective study of patients who had undergone wisdom teeth extraction at 2 outpatient oral surgery centers in the United States. Patients had to have been at least 18 years of age and undergoing an elective wisdom tooth removal with 1 partial bony or full bony lower impacted wisdom tooth. A total of 600 patients who underwent wisdom teeth extracted were included in … Read more

Man destroys dental office after dentist refuses to remove suspected electronic eavesdropping device

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In the past on this site it has been described how there may be a wisdom teeth conspiracy where dentists or oral surgeons implant an electronic eavesdropping device also known as a microchip inside patients mouths after wisdom teeth removal. This is described in the post Wisdom Teeth Conspiracy: Electronic Eavesdropping Device although no concrete proof of such a conspiracy is provided. It was however speculated that it could be possible to place a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip with potential for Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking capabilities inside a patients mouth. If this was done it may be possible for someone to observe and hear everything the person says and also know their exact location. Recently, it has been reported that a man in Brazil and his wife believed that the woman had a microchip secretely implanted in her mouth … Read more