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Research Paper On Wisdom Teeth

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Wisdom teeth have long been identified as a source of problems and continue to be the most commonly impacted teeth in the human mouth. The oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman of the Magdalenian period (18,000–10,000 BCE).[4] A lack of room to allow the teeth to erupt results in a risk of periodontal disease and dental cavities that increases with age.[5] Only a small minority (less than 2%) of adults age 65 years or older maintain the teeth without caries or periodontal disease and 13% maintain unimpacted wisdom teeth without caries or periodontal

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