Oral surgery treats the root cause of oral health problems.
During your consultation, Dr. Anthony Nguyen will perform a thorough oral exam and take x-rays to get a closer look at signs of decay, bone destruction, and other issues that need to be treated.
After diagnosing the oral health issue, a treatment plan will be developed, whether it be an extraction, bone graft, or alveoloplasty. Dr. Nguyen will tell you how to prepare for this procedure.
We will administer local anesthesia before the start of the procedure. If necessary, we can also administer additional sedation. General anesthesia may be necessary for certain surgical procedures.
Dr. Nguyen will place gauze at the surgical site and ask you to bite down on them to stop the bleeding. Aftercare instructions will be given and additional follow-ups may be necessary to check on the success of the procedure.
Tooth extractions involve the removal of a tooth from the mouth due to damage, impaction, overcrowding, decay, infection, to make room to straighten the teeth, or to replace teeth with dental implants or dentures. There are two main types of extractions, which are simple and surgical.
A simple extraction is the removal of a tooth that is visible in the mouth and not trapped behind the gums. These teeth can be loosened with an elevator and removed with forceps without surgery.
A surgical extraction is needed for impacted teeth or teeth that have broken at the gum line. To access these teeth, we need to make an incision into the gums and may also need to cut some additional bone and soft tissue to make removing the tooth easier. From there, we loosen and remove the tooth just like a simple extraction.
A bone graft is when an incision is made into the jaw and a graft of bone is taken from elsewhere in the body and placed in the jaw bone to replace destroyed bone. This restores the strength and structure of the jaw bone after gum disease or tooth loss.
Another reason patients could need bone grafting is to support dental implants when they do not have sufficient jaw bone density. Patients who have experienced bone loss due to tooth loss without replacement, gum disease, or osteoporosis can prevent the sagging and changing facial structure that bone loss causes.
This is a procedure that reshapes the jaw bone to smooth out uneven bumps, fragments of bone that are still sticking out, or to make high and low points of a tooth socket even. After a tooth has been extracted, the socket is often uneven and needs to be reshaped before placing a tooth restoration such as dentures for a proper fit. Alveoloplasty accelerates healing, minimizes bleeding, and reshapes the jaw bone for a proper fit for tooth restorations.
You must avoid smoking after undergoing oral surgery.
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