wisdom-tooth

A single wisdom-tooth extraction costs $400 on average; an appendix removal costs more than $20,000.

Keys to a Healthy Life 2010

As for Russ -- he should be in tears, given the challenges he's already coped with: the abdication of a costume designer; the scheduling problems posed by an actress's wisdom-tooth surgery; the awkwardness of hosting initial read-throughs in his tiny apartment, which happens to be in his parents 'basement, and which is crammed with books and a model roller coaster.

A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in 'The Rave Scenes' 2010

"Ouch, that's my loose wisdom-tooth you're pushing against!" she protested plaintively.

Miss Pat at School Pemberton Ginther

Another writer takes off patches of the diseased tissue, and another a strip of the gum, from wisdom-tooth to wisdom-tooth.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

The roots of the third molar (dens serotinus or wisdom-tooth) are more or less fused together.

XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth 1918

It was a tumour of the ramus, extending only as far forwards as the wisdom-tooth: --

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

The parotid gland and masseter muscle being dissected off the jaw, it was divided by cutting-pliers immediately behind the wisdom-tooth, after being notched with a saw.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

Unless you were to combine a place-drop with a wisdom-tooth story, like mine: I had seventeen yanked out by a Greek florist in the backseat of a taxi in French Guiana with no anesthetic!

World Hum WorldHum@worldhum.com 2010

Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller, 32, was rushed to the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles hospital last night with a fever of 105 due to an infection she contracted after having oral surgery for an impacted wisdom-tooth.

dailystab.com 2010

However, he said in general terms that patients experience symptoms such as a dry socket or bone chips in somewhere between 5 percent and 15 percent of wisdom-tooth extractions.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Kevin Vaughan and Jennifer Brown</B><br><I> 2010