Surgery to remove wisdom teeth puts some teens and young adults on a path to opioid abuse
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 21:40
in Health & Medicine
For older teens and young adults, the extraction of so-called wisdom teeth is a painful rite of passage. A new study suggests it’s likely made more perilous by the package of narcotic pain pills that patients frequently carry home after undergoing the common surgical procedure. The study offers...