Oral surgery provides ways to manage serious concerns, the kind too severe for a dental filling or crown placement. For example, we can remove wisdom teeth before they cause trouble, or even address lost teeth with dental implants. In today’s blog, our team at Celina Family Dentistry talks about helping smiles with oral surgery in Celina, TX.
Planning Treatment and Ensuring Your Comfort
If you come to us with a serious concern to be addressed, we will carefully examine your smile with digital x-rays to assess the cause and severity of the issue. From there, we can plan treatment with precision and accuracy. Our team also wants to ensure the treatment process itself is comfortable. For example, we will numb the area directly with a local anesthesia. Our team can also offer sedation, selecting an option to help anxious patients enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, with little to no memory of the oral surgery at all! Your treatment experience can be a positive one, and we will work to make that happen.
Jawbone Grafting
If you have lost natural teeth, this may do more than just leave a gap behind in your smile. You could also see the surrounding jawbone structure weaken and erode, a process that deprives your jaw of mass and density. Over time, this could lead to an aged appearance and further tooth loss, and leave your jaw unable to support dental implants. But with oral surgery, we can strengthen your lower jaw with a grafting procedure.
Essentially, we will take tissues from other parts of your body, or possibly use donor or synthetic materials, and use this to shore up areas that have eroded, providing a new base that can support dental implants and keep your youthful facial features intact.
Gum Grafts
For some, periodontal disease could mean the gums recede, which makes teeth appear long and uneven. This exposure creates sensitivity in the tooth roots not protected by enamel, which can cause sensitivity and tooth decay. This also increases the risk of periodontitis, the stage of the disease linked to adult tooth loss. But we can manage periodontal disease and even correct gum recession with a grafting procedure. Taking soft tissues from other portions of your mouth’s interior, we will cover the exposed roots and create a new gum line. This covers the exposed roots, and we also take time to ensure proper smile esthetics for our patients!
Dental Implants
Oral surgery can also replace missing teeth. With dental implants, we insert the implant portion into the jaw surgically. This small, thin biocompatible post acts as a new root, stimulating jawbone growth to keep your smile strong and intact. We can offer an individual one, completed with a lifelike crown, or we could use several posts to support a bridge or even a complete set of new teeth! You now have new teeth that never slip, and these can offer a lifelike appearance and long-lasting tooth replacement, staying in place for decades to come in some cases.
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
For older teens and people in their early 20s, up to four new teeth could erupt in the rear of the mouth. Known as wisdom teeth, when these arrive there is little room for them, so they can create misalignment, infection, and damage nearby teeth. They also may only have room to partially erupt, creating a painful impaction. But with oral surgery, we can gently extract these teeth before they arrive, preserving your alignment and overall oral health. If you have a child who has graduated high school and is heading to college, now is a great time to remove these teeth before they can impact their smiles during their first semester for college!
If you have any questions about how we help smiles with oral surgery, or if you need to schedule a visit to remove wisdom teeth, receive dental implants, or even have your jawbone strengthened or gums corrected, then reach out to our team today to learn more and get started. We would love to help you and your family start a new school year with optimal oral health, avoiding long-term complications down the road.
Celina Family Dentistry Protects Smiles with Oral Surgery
We want to help safeguard your smile with oral surgery, from addressing wisdom teeth to placing dental implants. We want to return your smile to optimal health, function, and beauty, so reach out to learn more about our treatment options and get started on your best possible smile. To find out more about our office or to schedule a time to talk, call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today.
