{"id":129586,"date":"2016-01-31T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/wisdom-teeth-and-the-removal-thereof.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:31:40","slug":"wisdom-teeth-and-the-removal-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/wisdom-teeth-and-the-removal-thereof.html","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom Teeth and the removal thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you told me that the expansion of dental coverage has led to an expansion of dental operations, including wisdom teeth removal, I wouldn&#39;t be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter just had her wisdom teeth removed a week ago, and it&#39;s a non-trivial operation (both financially and physically). That said, there are some dividing lines between &quot;medically necessary&quot; and &quot;orthodontally necessary&quot; and &quot;unnecessary&quot; that the article sort of elides over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/252916\/should-i-get-my-wisdom-teeth-removed-no\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YIMp0lW92De3TO807ABOtRuX_AblYYkSW-94LCFnSWqSJ14YdJHNSGv6hxYA78MZTDluZ4ZUVEyj0i6lz6VDw-RXdhGq-WD8VIANg0EDum9NU9mOTPHZHdRrsGKeoWt1OGcGMy8B62bMknMUcW--2RDfBwEDuGS5zAtK6u0DIL2C03mjD2Yd62HGTmICQCUajZqCeBVoqgrWqwg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/252916\/should-i-get-my-wisdom-teeth-removed-no\/'>Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Getting Your Wisdom Teeth Removed<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt is well known that this is now an epidemic: By one count, Americans waste $750 billion a year on unproductive care.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Rd8qkF4XKVR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you told me that the expansion of dental coverage has led to an expansion of dental operations, including wisdom teeth removal, I wouldn&#39;t be surprised. My daughter just had her wisdom teeth removed a week ago, and it&#39;s a non-trivial operation (both financially and physically). That said, there are some dividing lines between &quot;medically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/wisdom-teeth-and-the-removal-thereof.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wisdom Teeth and the removal thereof&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,69,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-family","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5353,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/01\/toothsome.html","url_meta":{"origin":129586,"position":0},"title":"Toothsome","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Apr-04 7:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Off to the dentist, now, jiggedy-jig ... 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