More than 150 kids have rotten teeth pulled out in hospital every DAY – as ops surge almost a fifth in a year

MORE than 150 kids a day are getting rotten teeth pulled out in hospital in England, grim data shows. Tooth extraction operations in children aged up to 19 surged by almost a fifth in the space of ...
phillyvoice.com

Wisdom teeth extraction may enhance your taste buds over time, Penn study finds

A new study challenges the belief that pulling wisdom teeth has a negative effect on taste. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found that extraction not only can ...
LBC

Every 15 minutes a child has a tooth pulled out in hospital as figures reveal soaring levels of teeth extraction operations

There has been a rise in the number of children in England needing to have decayed teeth extracted in hospital, data has ...
Nature

Are teeth in Scotland extracted for the same reasons now as 15 years ago?

A questionnaire survey of the reasons for tooth extraction in Scottish general dental practices was carried out in 1999 and the findings compared with those of a similar study performed in 1984 ...