"For 30 years, Dr. Jay Friedman has been on a one-man crusade to halt the tide of wisdom teeth removal, which he says is one of the most egregious examples of unnecessary medical procedures. In 2007, Friedman published a study in which he estimated that at least two-thirds of the millions of wisdom teeth extracted each year could or should have stayed in, but were instead removed out of unfounded fears of what would happen otherwise.
In Friedman’s estimation, you risk more enduring complications from wisdom teeth removal surgery than just leaving the suckers in your mouth...
A 2011 study of more than 6,000 patients in Greece found that only 2.7% of in-tact wisdom teeth result in problems. And an older study often cited by critics of routine extraction found that only 12% of surveyed middle-aged patients experienced a complication from keeping impacted wisdom teeth...
At a minimum, she told me, there remains a distinct absence of comprehensive, unbiased studies on the wisdom teeth question.
“The trick is that clinicians still don’t have all the tools and data available that would make them comfortable with a sit-and-wait approach,” she said."http://fusion.net/story/252916/should-i-get-my-wisdom-teeth-removed-no/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
This could easily be picking and choosing for a sensational headline, but... I'm willing to believe it.
This could easily be one of those things, those weird beliefs we had and then failed to question so much that we went along with surgery.
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