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> As for common but invasive dental procedures, an increasing number of dentists question the tradition of prophylactic wisdom-teeth removal This is an America
by sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
> As for common but invasive dental procedures, an increasing number of dentists question the tradition of prophylactic wisdom-teeth removal
This is an American thing. In Europe if a wisdom tooth doesn't hurt, you don't remove it.
- stdbrouw 4y agoIt is above all a changing thing. Everybody seems to be coming around to the idea that you don't have to routinely remove wisdom teeth, but it's still commonly done in Belgium and probably other European countries as well.
- Huggernaut 4y agoIn the Netherlands I have been repeatedly told I should get my wisdom teeth out despite no complaints.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago> It is above all a changing thing. Everybody seems to be coming around to the idea that you don't have to routinely remove wisdom teeth, but it's still commonly done in Belgium and probably other European countries as well. No... You say that everybody is "coming around to the idea that...", which makes it sound like people used to believe that you should routinely remove wisdom teeth and now that's changing. No, in Europe this was never common belief. So people aren't "coming around to the idea that..."
- kalleboo 4y agoMy Swedish public health care dentist removed one of my wisdom teeth when I was 18 since "it'll have to come out eventually and from next year dental isn't free for you so might as well do it now" My Japanese dentist has also continually kept pushing for me to remove one of my wisdom teeth since "its hard to keep clean down there"