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Message: [QUOTE="MattKW, post: 123793, member: 7514"] There is strong opposition to the NICE Guidelines from the dental fraternity, and some of the relevant parts of the [URL='https://docdro.id/2OALtlL']detailed concerns by the RCS[/URL] (2014) are: [LIST=1] [*][I]" [NICE] has only delayed necessary surgery with the average age of patient at surgery rising from 23 years to-32 years; [/I] [*][I]It has not reduced the prevalence of M3M surgery (only delayed it) ;[/I] [*][I]It has resulted in significant damage to second molars due to caries (and[/I] [I]resultant patient harm);[/I] [*][I]The charges associated with nonoperative management of asymptomatic, disease-free M3s will exceed the charges of operative management;[/I] [*][I]This evidence is sufficient for international Guidelines (Scandinavian, German and US) to have been amended in the last 12 months."[/I] [*]Personally, I see the NICE Guidelines as a stupid retrograde step in public health that should never have been implemented, and appears to have been embraced by bureaucracies more concerned with supposed cost efficiencies than health. [*]Do you have an Xray to show us? [I][/I] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]