> As for common but invasive dental procedures, an increasing number of dentists question the tradition of prophylactic wisdom-teeth removal
This is an American thing. In Europe if a wisdom tooth doesn't hurt, you don't remove it.
This is an American thing. In Europe if a wisdom tooth doesn't hurt, you don't remove it.
My Japanese dentist has also continually kept pushing for me to remove one of my wisdom teeth since "its hard to keep clean down there"
No... You say that everybody is "coming around to the idea that...", which makes it sound like people used to believe that you should routinely remove wisdom teeth and now that's changing. No, in Europe this was never common belief. So people aren't "coming around to the idea that..."