Oral Surgery
Oral Surgery implică diagnosticul și tratamentul chirurgical al bolilor dentare, defectelor și leziunilor. Looking forward to seeing you in the Pasindora Clinic – dental office Valcea – to find together solutions for the problems you face.
What is oral surgery?
Oral surgery involves the diagnosis and surgical treatment of dental conditions, defects and lesions.
Oral surgery includes:
- Endodontic surgery;
- Preprosthetic surgery;
- Tooth eruption accidents;
- Impacted teeth;
- Dento-periodontal trauma;
- Periodontal surgery;
- Dental implants.
What are the benefits of a dental surgical treatment?
Dental surgical treatment has a number of benefits, such as:
- Long-term tooth replacement – when you lose a natural tooth and want to replace it with a bridge or denture, only the crown will be restored, not the root. In order to achieve a correct and long-lasting tooth replacement, oral surgery is needed;
- Restoring the natural smile – when left untreated, jaw problems of the mandible and jaw can worsen and the smile can be affected both aesthetically and functionally;
- Oral surgery treats the cause, not just the symptoms;
- Prevents tooth loss.
What types of dental surgery are there?
When you resort to dental surgery, you must know that this is a branch that involves extensive changes to the dentition, facial bones and the entire oral cavity.
There are thus several types of surgical interventions:
- Simple tooth extractions, such as the extraction of one molar;
- Complicated dental extractions, such as extraction of affected teeth or procedures that also involve the treatment of dental lesions;
- Extractions of wisdom teeth;
- Bone restoration or various fractures in the cheek;
- Interventions at the dental pulp level.
What is a tooth extraction? What types of tooth extractions are there?
When you arrive at a dental office, the dentist will only recommend tooth extraction as a last resort. We are talking about those cases when other methods of saving the tooth are not possible or when the diseased tooth can cause other complications. Tooth extraction involves the removal of the tooth / teeth by the dentist.
There are several types of extractions:
- Molar extraction – this procedure is necessary for several reasons. The main reason is the destruction of the tooth by caries. Then, very often it happened that the wisdom molar was positioned incorrectly, and this can cause diseases of the nearby tooth, but also eventual displacement of the teeth located on the entire arch.
- Complicated extractions - complex procedures are performed when a tooth that cannot be saved has incorrectly positioned roots. It is performed only under anesthesia and only by an experienced dentist. You must know that there is also the possibility that the tooth cannot be extracted in its entirety, and for this reason, it will be sectioned into fragments, each one being removed in turn.
- Removal of impacted teeth – most of the time, especially wisdom teeth, the teeth cannot erupt and remain partially or fully in the jawbone. Their removal requires a complex intervention and is performed only by experienced physicians.
- Root removal – this procedure is performed when the tooth crown is mostly damaged and the root cannot support a root post.
When is a wisdom tooth extraction procedure necessary and what does it entail?
Wisdom teeth are only extracted in certain situations – for example, when there is no roomfor them to grow or it affects the position of neighboring teeth. This decision is made after a consultation followed by an X-ray.
These steps may result in:
- Infection of the gums around the wisdom teeth;
- Cavities affecting the nerve;
- Periodontal disease;
- Cysts.
The procedure to extract wisdom teeth can be difficult, complex and risky. To remove the pain, the extraction is done under local anesthesia.
Of course, there are also situations in which the extraction of wisdom teeth is not advised:
- When the molar has enough room to develop normally;
- When it is healthy and does not create discomfort;
- When it does not affect chewing.
How long and what does the recovery period after a tooth extraction involve?
- The healing period after such an intervention can last between seven and ten days, during which the threads will also be removed in the case of extraction surgery.
- Soft foods can be consumed just two hours after the extraction.
- On the day of the intervention, alcohol consumption and smoking are prohibited.
- After such an extraction, each patient receives a prescription with antibiotics, analgesics and anti-inflammatories. It is very important to follow all the instructions received so that the recovery is as fast as possible.
- Post-procedure bleeding is normal and may last between 15 to 20 minutes. Conversely, heavy or present bleeding the day after the extraction is a red flag.
- The swellings of the area where the extraction was performed are also normally noted - they can be improved with cold compresses.
- It is recommended to rest for 10 days from activities that accelerate the pulse.
What does recovery after wisdom tooth extraction entail? What foods and drinks are allowed?
In the first 24 hours after the intervention, it is recommended to avoid the consumption of alcohol, carbonated drinks, hot drinks, coffee, and a 72-hour break from smoking is recommended. As for food, it should be soft, not requiring chewing.
Recovery after wisdom tooth extraction involves several stages:
- Bleeding – the treated area may bleed in the first few days;
- Pain – to eliminate discomfort, applying an ice pack to the inflamed area is indicated;
- Wires – there are wires that resorb themselves, but also wires that must be removed by the dentist.
