A healthy 45-year-old man experienced respiratory failure due to a giant life-threatening lung abscess caused by oral bacteria stemming from a wisdom tooth extraction. The case report was published in ...

Imaging aided in the diagnosis of a 26-year-old man's very unusual infratemporal fossa abscess that developed in the lateral pterygoid, a masticatory muscle, following wisdom tooth extraction. The ...

Recovering from a dry socket can be uncomfortable, especially when severe pain develops after a tooth extraction. Dry socket, ...

Dental extraction is performed frequently and can be accompanied by perioperative or postoperative complications. Bleeding is among the most common and important issues to consider in the ...

Having a tooth pulled out can feel like an instant fix. The pain goes, the infection clears, and life moves on. But what many people do not realise is that tooth extraction can have lasting ...

According to the American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, complications from tooth extractions occur in roughly 2-5% of cases — yet most of these complications stem from preventable aftercare ...

Without proper treatment, tooth infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to serious and potentially life threatening complications. A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess, is a ...

Our patient’s dental sinus was a form of cervicofacial actinomycosis, the most common Actinomyces infection in humans. Cervicofacial actinomycosis (or “lumpy jaw”) is typically a slowly progressive ...