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Wisdom Teeth
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What on earth is this is this ridiculous rule about dentists not taking wisdom teeth out anymore. My lack land son is on his second course of antibiotics for a tooth that clearly needs extracting - and I'm not even a dentist!!!!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I had one removed by a dentist in the chair when it got infected, think it was for the second time and a worse one. He took the one above out though rather than the infected one.
I had the other three taken out under anaesthesia in a clinic 2/3 months later, I think it was an NHS clinic but by paying I got in quicker.
That was some time ago now though. I agree they can be tricky, mine were about a week off being impacted and know people where their jaw had to be broken etc... to get them out.
I had the other three taken out under anaesthesia in a clinic 2/3 months later, I think it was an NHS clinic but by paying I got in quicker.
That was some time ago now though. I agree they can be tricky, mine were about a week off being impacted and know people where their jaw had to be broken etc... to get them out.
The rule is not about the tooth removal, its about the anaesthesia. Dentists can no longer administer their own GA's, there needs to be an anaesthesiologist there for the whole of the procedure plus appropriate equipment and emergency equipment. If the dentist can arrange this at all, it costs megabucks and I don't think that what the NHS pay them would cover it.
I would speculate that this has nothing to do with anaesthesia or place of extraction, but that your dentist is following appropriate NHS NICE guidelines.
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