Talk:Wisdom teeth
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- Most of the information on the original page seems to have been copied from http://www.agd.org/consumer/topics/wisdom/main.html, but some parts have been added/changed around.
Does anyone know about how common it is to have dentists remove wisdom teeth without the procedure being necessary?
Extremely uncommon nowadays- I am a dentist working in the UK. A body called NICE makes guidelines on the matter- nowadays I dont touch a wisdom tooth unless it has given at least 2 episodes of pericoronitis, or there is some other pathology present such as a cyst or resopbtion of another tooth caused by the wisdom tooth Ashley Payne 08:16, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
