An impacted tooth can lead to an infection called pericoronitis. If untreated, this infection can spread to the throat or into the neck. Severe infections require a hospital stay and surgery. Impacted teeth also can get cavities. An impacted tooth can push on the neighboring molar.
Noun. 1. fiction-a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. literary composition, literary work-imaginative or creative writing. dystopia-a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror.
How to Create Suspense in Fiction. Community Q&A. Real life is only occasionally suspenseful, and few people are ever in life-or-death situations. In fiction, however, life is always exciting and dangerous; if it wasn't, it wouldn't offer an escape from real life. Therefore, all successful fiction needs to create suspense to keep the reader interested.