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Do All Dentists Refer Wisdom Tooth Extractions to Oral Surgeons?

In our most recent survey, we asked dentists what percentage of wisdom tooth removals they refer to an oral surgeon. Overall, half of our dentist respondents refer out 80% or more third molar extractions. Some dentists were grateful to be rid of most or all wisdom teeth cases, while other dentists prefer to refer only the most complicated cases.

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Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom teeth are third molars that generally appear in your mouth between the ages of 17 and 24.

They are commonly removed when they affect other teeth. This impaction is colloquially known as "coming in sideways." Some experts think that wisdom teeth were useful when it was common for humans to lose several teeth to decay by the age when these teeth appear.

Oral Surgeon

Oral Surgeon - Oral and maxillofacial surgeons (OMS) are initially qualified in dentistry (they have a full 3 or 4 year dental degree) and have undergone a further 4-6 years of specialty surgical training.

OMS is universally recognized as a specialty of dentistry. An oral surgeon also may choose to undergo further training in a 1 or 2 year fellowship to expand the scope of practice to areas such as head and neck cancer, cosmetics, or craniomaxillofacial surgery. While many oral surgeons focus their parctices on head and neck cancers, TMJ disorders and fixing fractured jaws, their bread and butter procedure is the removal of wisdom teeth.

Tooth Extractions

Teeth can be extracted by either a general dentist or an oral surgeon. Most simple procedures, including wisdom tooth extraction are done by general dentists. More complicated cases like impacted or guried teeth are often referred to an oral surgeon.