Q: I have worked in dentistry all my adult life. One dentist I worked for instructed patients after extractions to bite on a wet tea bag if bleeding continued. He told them to use a plain old Lipton ...

A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by Dr Trevor Watts. In a cohort of patients with INR up to 4.0, there ...

A dentist has been suspended after a patient on anti-clotting medication died following a tooth extraction procedure he oversaw. Patient A, as the woman is referred to on a report from the U.K.'s ...

To the Editor: "Profound Bleeding after Dental Extractions during Dicumarol Therapy" occurring in 2 patients is reported in the February 21 issue of the Journal, by Ziffer et al., whose experiences ...

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 ...

If you've ever had a tooth pulled, your dentist likely cautioned you about the risk of dry socket-a painful condition where ...

Laser therapy has numerous applications and may improve oral wound healing by encouraging cell regeneration, lessening pain, and modulating the immune system, but its use after tooth extraction ...