When extracting lower wisdom teeth, coronectomy is a treatment option involving removing the crown of the lower wisdom tooth, whilst keeping the roots...

(intentionally leaving the roots) in a procedure called a coronectomy. The long-term risk of coronectomy is that chronic infection can persist from the tooth...

surgery to minimise nerve injury by careful extraction or undertaking a coronectomy procedure in healthy patients with healthy teeth. The risk of nerve injury...

of excess gum flap (operculectomy), or if those failed, extraction or coronectomy. The National Health Service in the UK recommends people go to dental...

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