A 23-year-old woman in São Paulo, Brazil, has died from an infection after a wisdom tooth extraction. The case has been registered as a suspicious death and will be investigated by the Civil Police.

An eye for an eye and a tooth… for an eye? A blind Canadian woman has had her vision partly restored after undergoing a bizarre operation that surgically implanted a tooth into her left eye socket.

A 54-year-old healthy woman was diagnosed with a rare case of infective endocarditis after developing an acute ischemic stroke five weeks after having a tooth extracted. The case report was published ...

After 10 years without sight, Gail Lane, a 75-year-old woman from Victoria, B.C., has regained her vision. She can now see again thanks to a tooth surgically placed into her eye socket. Lane underwent ...

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 ...