Most people hear that the best time to remove wisdom teeth is in the late teenage years or early twenties. At NorthernStar Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in St. Louis Park, just minutes from Minneapolis, we see clearly why this recommendation…
During a visit to Chicago’s Field Museum, I stepped into a three-story replica of an Egyptian tomb and noticed something remarkable on a mummy’s CT scan — a 2,500-year-old impacted wisdom tooth destroying the molar beside it. Even thousands of years ago, wisdom teeth were causing trouble. Today, at NorthernStar OMS in St. Louis Park near Minneapolis, we still see similar problems — and we now know how to prevent them safely.