Complications Following Lower Third Molar Surgery in a Specific Age Group: A Prospective Study

This prospective study reports the postoperative complications rate in third molar surgery in patients aged 30-36 years. Patients recruited from two dental hospitals in England and Greece. Standardized data collection included the patient s name, age, gender, radiographic position of extracted tooth, grade of surgeon, closeness to inferior dental nerve, postoperative complications, smoking status and the intake of oral contraceptives by females. The results of this study showed that infection and abscess, trismus, swelling, bleeding, sore throat, dry socket, problematic healing were not significantly different to younger groups from other studies. The lip sensation using chi-squared found to correlated significantly in patients 30-36 years old (p< 0.05) but the results are not considered precise due to differences in homogeneity between this and other studies. Complications in this specific age group were not higher than other age groups when patients are younger; this study does not support the prophylactic removal of third molars.