If you have a serious issue with your smile, such as weakened jawbone structure or missing teeth, then we can help with oral surgery. We plan your procedure in detail and offer sedation to ensure your comforts throughout the process. In today’s blog, your Celina, TX, dentist talks about our approach to oral surgery.
When You Need Oral Surgery
If you have a more severe oral health concern, such as a tooth loss, weakened jawbone structure, or wisdom teeth soon to erupt, then you may need oral surgery. Our team can provide treatment to address these concerns and improve the overall health, function, and beauty of your smile. We can also do so with comfort and precision using advanced technology and dental sedation! Even if you have dental anxiety, we want to ensure you enjoy a positive experience in our office.
Examining Your Smile
We first plan the oral surgery in detail, and that involves taking detailed digital images of the teeth. We can employ digital x-rays using a system that uses 90% less radiation and provides images instantly chairside. We can see the interior of your teeth, and also the jawbone and key oral structures as well. We also have intraoral cameras to look clearly at the surfaces of your teeth and gums.
With these images, we can plan the treatment process in detail, ensuring we can conduct the procedure without impacting nerve tissues, sinus cavities, or blood vessels, and providing optimal results that not only improve oral health and bite function, but the overall appearance of your smile too.
Dental Sedation
We can numb areas directly with a local anesthesia. But with oral surgery, we often need to ensure a deeper state of calm. We can provide nitrous oxide, in which you breathe in a gas and enter a deep state of calm, staying conscious but having little memory of the procedure. We also have oral sedation for a deeper state of calm, and the deepest form of sedation is intravenous, in which you enter a sleep-like state. You will have no memory of the process in these situations, and will need someone on hand to bring you home afterward!
Jawbone Grafting
If your lower jaw has lost mass and density due to tooth loss, then this could complicate your ability to receive dental implants and also lead to an older appearance. But with jawbone grafting, we can add new tissues to the lower jaw to fortify it and ensure you can support new teeth. We could use tissues taken from other parts of your body, or synthetic or donor tissues.
Sinus Lift
What about the upper jaw? If the upper portion of your smile is too weak to support dental implant placement, then we could conduct a sinus lift, in which we essentially raise the sinus floor to uncover new structures that can support dental implants and help you maintain your youthful facial features at the same time.
Dental Implants
Dental implants can replace individual missing teeth, or several can be used to support a bridge or even a full set of dentures. Dental implants are inserted into the jaw and act as new roots, bond with the jawbone structure. This means they can last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime, with proper care and attention. Oral surgery allows us to guide these posts into place, ensuring they sit at the right angle, positions, and depths to support new smiles!
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
Tooth extraction allows us to gently remove a tooth, such as one too infected or damaged to be treated with a crown. But we can also use oral surgery to remove wisdom teeth before they erupt. Doing so helps teens and people in their early 20s avoid painful impactions, infections, misalignment, and damaged teeth due to the arrival of these additional molars. We could also extract teeth to pave the way for dentures, or to even aid in orthodontic treatment.
If you have any questions about how we approach oral surgery, or if you would like to schedule a visit to see if you need any of these treatments to help your smile stay intact and look great, then contact our team today to learn more. You deserve optimal oral health and a smile that looks great, and we want to help make it a reality for you!
Celina Family Dentistry Offers Surgical Treatment
We are ready to take on serious oral health threats and keep your smile intact. To find out more about oral surgery, call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today.
