Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

It's best to skip hard, crunchy and chewy foods after your wisdom teeth removal so you don't disrupt the healing process. Here's a list of which foods to avoid.

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 ...

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 ...

Patients taking prednisolone following a tooth extraction may experience delayed healing of the extraction socket. A study published on September 8 in the Journal of Dental Sciences identified ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

A mother-of-two ended up in ICU with sepsis after a routine tooth extraction and says she “might have died”. Shoshannah Shand spent two weeks in hospital, where she was told that she had contracted ...