I found an interesting article today on how the “Culture of research led to changes in extraction of wisdom teeth.” The article addressed wisdom teeth removal surgery in the United Kingdom (UK) and how this has changed over time. An interesting tidbit is there were 130,000 surgical extraction procedures conducted in England and Wales in 1995. By 2002, this number had fallen to less than 60,000. The reason was because of research and learning from evidence. There is no benefit to extracting healthy impacted wisdom teeth since the procedure caries the risk of damage to facial nerves. It is unfortunate that a similar policy has not been implemented in the United States.
On a lighter note, another website discusses deranged dentist names. It is not exactly clear were some of the readers are from, however, some of them are amusing. For example,
The guy who pulled my wisdom teeth (to create more room in my mouth) was named Dr. Widner (pronounced “widener”). And I had a dentist a few years ago named Dr. Roach.
I just can’t imagine my wisdom tooth being extracted, oh, no, that must be awful….On the other note what you have posted is interesting.