While having your wisdom teeth out is typically seen as a teenage rite of passage, the truth is that people of all ages require orthodontic treatment to have these teeth removed. Adults generally get ...

Wisdom teeth removal isn't likely to be high on your to-do list if they're not bothering you. After all, your wisdom teeth are kind of like the appendix of your mouth: They’re there, but there’s ...

A combination of acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) controls pain after wisdom tooth removal better than opioids, according to a Rutgers Health study that could change how dentists ...

Young people who take opioids after surgery may develop an addiction to them. Researchers at the University of Michigan found young people between the ages of 13 and 30 are nearly three times more ...

More than 50 percent of opioids prescribed to patients after surgical tooth extraction, like wisdom teeth removal, go unused by patients, according to a new study published in the journal of Drug and ...

Deb Ware stared in numb horror at her son, a frail, 22-year-old man in diapers who looked like he'd had a stroke. This was hardly Sam Ware's first dance with death in the years since his addiction to ...

Charli XCX has shared a health update after undergoing wisdom teeth removal. The 1999 singer took to Instagram on Thursday to share an update from a hospital bed, with a selfie featuring a blood ...

A woman suffered nerve damage after a painful wisdom tooth extraction where the dentist ignored her distress. The Health and Disability Commissioner found the dentist breached health consumer rights ...

A speech therapist's career has been blighted after a botched wisdom tooth removal left her in agony when she tried to talk. Alison Winterbotham was driven 'nuts' by an almost constant burning ...