1 Without proper scans of teeth, there is a danger of permanent nerve damage. 2  Carol Russell, 46, from Birmingham, can't even kiss her children. 3  Her wisdom tooth was removed in 2008 but several operations couldn't stop the pain.  Wisdom tooth extraction is one of the most common procedures in the UK.
An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two congruent sides and congruent base angles. congruent means equal. No matter which direction the triangle's apex, or peak, points, it's an isosceles triangle if two of its sides are congruent. Note the hash marks that indicate congruency. Any sides or angles with the same number of hashes through them are congruent.
Recall that an isosceles triangle is a triangle with at least two congruent sides. These congruent sides are called legs. The point at which these legs meet is called the vertex point of the isosceles triangle, and the angle formed by the legs is called the vertex angle. The other two angles of the triangle are called base angles. A labeled illustration of an isosceles triangle is shown below. In the past, we determined isosceles triangles by the lengths of their sides. In other words, if we saw that a triangle had two sides with equal lengths, then we classified the triangle as isosceles. There are other characteristics that mark isosceles triangles, however.