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.
THE ISOSCELES RIGHT TRIANGLE . A N ISOSCELES RIGHT TRIANGLE is one of two special triangles. (The other is the 30Â°-60Â°-90Â° triangle.) The student should know the ratios of the sides. (An isosceles triangle has two equal sides. See Definition 8 in Some Theorems of Plane Geometry. The theorems cited below will be found there.) Theorem. In an isosceles right triangle the sides are in the ratio 1:1:. Proof. In an isosceles right triangle, the equal sides make the right angle. They have the ratio of equality, 1 : 1. To find the ratio number of the hypotenuse h, we have, according to the Pythagorean theorem, h2 = 12 + 12 = 2.