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 ...

Researchers have found in a randomized controlled clinical trial that submucosal infiltration of injectable platelet-rich fibrin (i-PRF) after impacted lower third molar extraction ...

Photobiomodulation (PBM) light therapy may improve postoperative pain and wound healing after tooth extractions, according to a scoping review published on May 18 in the Journal of the American Dental ...

As the opioid epidemic rages on during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study by the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health (EIOH) shows promise for a non-opioid ...

Getting a tooth pulled carries a risk of experiencing a dry socket, also known as alveolar osteitis. Usually, the socket—the ...

Dry socket, clinically termed alveolar osteitis, is a common complication following tooth extractions, particularly of the mandibular third molars. Its occurrence, characterised by the premature loss ...

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 ...