COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) – A 17-year-old in Colorado is in need of a lung transplant after a routine wisdom teeth removal surgery led to the discovery of a rare autoimmune disease.

A routine medical moment takes an unexpected turn, leaving viewers shocked and amused.

Inside the Nice pharmacy on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington, employees busily fill prescriptions for waiting customers. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

More than 50 percent of opioids prescribed to patients after surgical tooth extraction, like wisdom teeth removal, go unused by patients, according to a new study published in the journal of Drug and ...

Getting your wisdom teeth extracted might sound stressful and painful, but it’s something that many people experience. According to Gentle Dental, 70% of people will eventually need to get their ...

When Maria Pascarella, 16, woke up from having her wisdom teeth removed, she had no idea that millions of people would witness her comical ordeal. “She was sassy even under anesthesia,” said Marianna ...

(NAPSI)—"Will it hurt?" is often one of the first questions people ask when told they need a medical procedure. One problem: the mere thought of pain can intensify its feeling. It’s enough to make ...

Leora Leavey, 17, a rising high school senior from Bethesda, Md., had her wisdom teeth removed just before Memorial Day, hoping to use the long holiday weekend to recover. X-rays showed that two of ...

Tanner Braungardt documents his wisdom teeth removal experience and recovery process.

Driver’s license, prom, ridding the body of vestigial teeth. All rites of passage for American adolescents. So things were right on track when, after a routine dentist visit during my oldest child’s ...