Table 2.

Prevalence of post-operative complications in third molar and non-third molar teeth.

Post-operative complication	Tooth type not specified		Third molar teeth
Alveolar osteitis	0.78%−39.12% [27, 51, 58, 59]		0.19%–12.7% [27, 54]
	Maxillary = 1.21% [59]	Mandibular = 2.69% [59]	Maxillary = 0.38% [48]	Mandibular = 2.7%–4.2% [47, 50, 63]
Osteomyelitis	0.7% [27]		0.32%−0.37% [27, 47]
Abscess	0.11% [10]		0.32%–1.25% [47, 48]
Facial cellulitis	No reports found		0.08% [64]
Pain	0.86%−6.76% [10, 27, 58]		0.3%–1.6% [27, 50, 52]
Inferior alveolar nerve damage	0.06% [27]		0.23%–8.4% [47, 52, 54, 63]
Lingual nerve damage	0.08% [27]		0.2%−5.7% [47, 49, 50, 54]
Mental nerve damage	No reports found		No reports found
Haemorrhage	0.55%−13.51% [27, 58]		0.6%–0.7% [27, 52]
			Maxillary = 0.064% [48]	Mandibular = 0.3%–0.4% [47, 50]
Haematoma	No reports found		0.08% [47]
Trismus	14.85% [58]		0.3%−0.41% [51, 53]
Swelling/oedema	6.75% [58]		0.06% [52]
Osteonecrosis of the jaw ∗	1.9%−3.44% [55, 57]		No reports found
Osteoradionecrosis ∗∗	8.5%−19.8% [56, 60]		28.6% [62]
	Maxillary = 2.2%−9.1% [56, 60, 61]	Mandibular = 9.6%–17.6% [56, 60, 61]
Oral–antral communication	0.94% [27]		2.4% [48]

 ^∗Of patients on oral or intravenous bisphosphonates.  ^∗∗Of patients with a history of head and neck radiotherapy.