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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 5,000 children were admitted to hospitals in Northern Ireland to have multiple teeth extracted in a year - costing the health service an estimated £9m. In just 12 months, a total of 22,699 ...

A Minnesota teen is fighting for her life after suffering cardiac arrest during routine wisdom tooth extraction. Seventeen-year-old Sydney Galleger was taken to Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital, ...

Hundreds of children having teeth extracted as hospital treatments hit their highest level in six years in Birmingham. There were 1,464 hospital admissions for teeth extractions for children from the ...

Hospitals carried out almost 180 operations every day on children and teens last year to remove rotting teeth, costing the NHS more than £40m. The latest figures reveal there were 44,685 surgical ...