Clinical aspects and medicolegal consequences of lingual nerve traumas during mandibular wisdom teeth avulsions. - ROS - 1998 - Tome 27 - N°4

The frequency of lingual nerve lesion during the avulsion of wisdom teeth is often underestimated. It induces sensitive, sensory, periodontal an masticatory sequellae. Prevention consists in protecting the lingual nerve by means of a malleable blade. From a medicolegal point of view, an increasing number of practitioners are being sentenced for such sensory sequellae and compensation is nearly systematically awarded.