Of the many health care procedures you may have to undergo, a tooth extraction is probably among the least desirable. Hollywood script writers sometimes turn to tooth extraction (without an anesthetic ...

The role of extractions in orthodontic treatment has been a controversial subject for over a century. It is fair to say that even today, opinion is divided on whether extractions are used too ...

The number one reason for primary school-aged children being admitted to hospital is to have multiple teeth taken out, newly released figures show. The number of children aged from five to nine ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that children living in areas with high levels of deprivation are three times more likely to have severe tooth decay that requires a dental ...

Children living in areas with high levels of deprivation are three times more likely than those in more affluent areas to have tooth decay that requires dental extraction in hospital, warn researchers ...

In the study, published today (16 July 2024) in BMJ Public Health, researchers from Queen Mary analysed de-identified GP and hospital records for 600,000 children between the ages of five and 16 ...

Toddlers are undergoing general anaesthetic to have teeth extracted, and sugar is the culprit, according to the National President of the Australian Dental Association. Hugo Sachs says there's been a ...

Nearly 180 hospital operations a day are performed to remove children's rotting teeth, a study reveals today. There were 44,685 extractions of multiple teeth in under-18s in England in 2018/19 – ...

Australian dentists are becoming increasingly frustrated with having to extract multiple teeth from children as young as two years old, and the consensus is that sugar is to blame. At the Royal Dental ...