Does Difficulty of Wisdom Teeth Surgery Relate to Blood Parameters?
An interesting article written by Beatriz Sainz de Baranda et al. titled “Relationship Between Surgical Difficulty of Third Molar Extraction Under Local Anesthesia and the Postoperative Evolution of Clinical and Blood Parameters,” appears in the 2019 edition of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The article discusses a study to explore if the surgical difficulty of wisdom teeth removal is related the postoperative course as assessed from clinical and blood parameters. In the article the authors conduct a study using 118 patients who presented at Dr Peset University Hospital in Valencia, Spain, from September 2012 through November 2014, to have lower wisdom teeth extracted. In the study each patient had the surgical difficulty assessed using the Pederson scale which is based on an evaluation of panoramic radiographs. The 118 patients were divided into two groups based on the difficulty … Read more