Dentists and oral surgeons are always looking for better ways to reduce their patients' pain after surgery, and a new study may have a solution. An injection of dexamethasone before surgery ...

This meta-analysis includes 10 RCTs that assess the efficacy of CHX gel to prevent the incidence of alveolar osteitis after mandibular third molar extraction. The control group receives only placebo ...

Based on long-term studies, many by oral surgeons, approximately 12% of third molars have associated pathology such as cysts (1.7%), resorption on the distal of second molars (4.8%), and periodontal ...

Our systematic review included eleven articles that fulfilled our inclusion criteria. These papers discussed several dental and skeletal consequences related to early extraction of compromised FPM. A ...