[Study of an anatomical approach to the lower wisdom teeth and their roots: the lingual route]

The authors describe the theoretical arguments which incited them to practise a lingual approach for avulsion of the lower wisdom teeth and their roots. In their account and the photos which illustrate it, they show the advantages which the use of this route provides: -simplicity, -surgical comfort for the patient, -rapidity, -and quality of surgical after-effects. The latter are analyzed from statistical tables collected on 308 cases corresponding to the avulsion of 364 wisdom teeth or roots.