Although permanent teeth are meant to last a lifetime, there are a number of reasons why you may need to have a tooth pulled as an adult. Broken, infected, or overcrowded teeth can not only affect the ...

Tooth extractions are commonly associated with a fair amount of trauma. But they can become a matter of applying light pressure and waiting for a telltale "pop," signaling the disengagement of the ...

Clinicians successfully removed a 16-mm fragment of a nickel-titanium (NiTi) endodontic instrument that became stuck in a man's tooth during a root canal by using a simple rather than a professional ...