When you have issues like tooth loss, weakened jawbone structure, and/or wisdom teeth soon-to-erupt, then you should see our team for oral surgery. With treatment, we can help address these concerns and rebuild your smile with precision and comfort. In today’s blog, your team at Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX, talks about treating oral surgery and helping your smile look its best again.
When to Seek Oral Surgery
When should you see our team for oral surgery? For some, their general dentist may refer them to our office. But you can reach out directly if you have a serious concern, one that may be too severe to be addressed by your general dentist. If you are a teen or young adult, you may have wisdom teeth that could erupt and alter your smile’s alignment and appearance. If you lose teeth, this could eventually weaken your jawbone and cause further tooth loss without help. We could even correct the long-term impacts of tooth loss, such as eroded jawbone structure.
Planning Care and Sedation
To get started, we will talk to you about symptoms and look at anything your general dentist sends over, before examining your smile with digital imaging. We have digital x-rays, intraoral cameras, and CBCT imaging to obtain clear and panoramic views of your bite, all available with high-definition imaging. We can then make a diagnosis with precision and accuracy, so we can assess the cause and severity of your concerns, and plan care in detail. To ensure your treatment is comfortable for you, even if the issue is extensive or you have major anxiety about the dentist, we will offer a local anesthesia and sedation. In fact, we have three different sedation options available to choose from!
Jawbone Grafting and Sinus Lifts
If tooth loss has weakened your jaw, or the upper or lower portions of your smile have weakened due to illness, congenital issues, or other factors, we could rebuild them. With jawbone grafting, we add structure to the lower jaw to strengthen it, and this new tissue could come from your own body (such as the rear of your jaw, your hip, or your knee), or from synthetic or donor sources. Once in place, we could secure dental implants to replace missing teeth and help fortify the jaw further.
The upper jaw involves a different approach known as a sinus lift. With this option, our team will essentially raise the sinus floor to uncover enough tissue to support your new tooth.
Dental Implant Placement
If you have missing teeth, we could help with oral surgery. Dental implants are not like traditional bridges or dentures. These rely on posts inserted into the jawbone, implants that act like new roots and stimulate jawbone growth, so your end teeth can last far longer than traditional tooth replacement options. We could offer individual ones for minor tooth loss, or we could use two to support a bridge, or four to secure a full set of new teeth, replacing the need for traditional dentures. These are long-lasting options that look and function like natural teeth, so you can smile with confidence for decades to come!
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
For older teens and adults in their 20s, oral surgery could prevent wisdom tooth eruption. When these new molars arrive, this could crowd your teeth to undo orthodontic treatment to create misalignment. They could damage nearby teeth to discuss painful symptoms and infection. They could partially erupt, creating a painful impaction in your bite. But we could use oral surgery to gently remove them before they even erupt, protecting your smile. our team could also conduct a tooth extraction to help with damaged or infected teeth, and to aid in orthodontic treatment or to assist with denture placement as needed!
If you have any questions about how we restore your smile with oral surgery, or if you want to schedule a visit to see what care you need, then contact our team today. There is still time to see our team and use your 2026 dental benefits and health savings account funds before they expire at the end of the year.
Celina Family Dentistry Restores Smiles with Oral Surgery
We want to help take on the issues that can threaten the smile, restoring function, health, and beauty to your bite! To find out more about addressing wisdom teeth and tooth loss, call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today. A new smile before the start of 2027 is possible and we can help!
