Anyone who had to pay a visit to the dentist to pull their wisdom teeth out can tell you how much nuisance they cause. They can not only be painful but also cause tooth decay and even tumors.

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Millions of people every year get one or more wisdom teeth, also called third molars, extracted by a dentist ...

To my worried eyes, the needle looked like a Pulp Fiction-level injection was coming ... and having two wisdom teeth pulled ...

Dr. William Graves the Owner of OAMS and Full Smile Dental joined us in Studio to talk about dental health. He told us what ...

Why do we have wisdom teeth? They're just going to come in wrong and cause problems. Wisdom teeth are a souvenir from our early human ancestors, and we actually understand less about the ...

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 ...