When you have a serious oral health concern, one too severe to be addressed with common options like fillings or crowns, then you may benefit from oral surgery. Our team can remove wisdom teeth before they erupt and even replace missing teeth with dental implants! In today’s blog, your team at Celina Family Dentistry talks about helping smiles with oral surgery.
When to Contact Our Team
When should you contact our team about possible treatment options? Oral surgery can often tackle more severe issues. For example, if you sustain an injury that damages a tooth and you need more than a crown or filling, then we could help with oral surgery. If you are leaving high school and about to start college, we could extract wisdom teeth before they erupt and threaten smile stability. Our team could also tackle tooth loss with a replacement option that looks and fits like natural teeth, known as a dental implant.
Planning Treatment
To begin, we will need to take a very close look at your smile. Our team will be able to plan treatment with digital imaging, looking at the teeth, gums, and even peering beneath the tissues and into the jaw to look at undergoing structure, roots, and more. With digital imaging, we can gather these images quickly and comfortably, and provide treatment with better precision and comfort. Every smile is unique, and we want to ensure optimal care for our patients.
Anesthesia and Sedation
Oral surgery can be a source of anxiety, especially for people who already have dental anxiety about the very idea of visiting the office, or for those with special needs. But we understand, and instead of trying to minimize your worries, we will take action to help ensure you stay comfortable and relaxed throughout the procedure. For example, we can always numb the surfaces around the area being treated with a local anesthesia.
Our team can also provide sedation to help people enter a deep state of calm and relaxation. We have nitrous oxide, administered through a mask over the nose and providing a deep state of calm. The effects wear off quickly when the procedure ends. For more substantial calming, we could offer oral conscious sedation, delivered in a pill or liquid form, or IV, which is offered intravenously. Both provide deep results with no memory of the process, and the grogginess means you will need someone on hand to take you home afterward. We can help decide which is best for you or your family member.
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
For teens leaving high school and starting college, their late teens and early 20s means a high risk of up to four new wisdom teeth erupting in the rear of the mouth. When this happens, there could be misalignment, infection, damaged teeth, and partial eruptions known as impactions. But we can help prevent these, and a visit now means we can do so before they start a new stage of their life in the fall. Our team can use advanced technology and sedation to ensure we gently remove these teeth before they even erupt and threaten the smile. Recovery could take as little as a day or two.
Placing Dental Implants
If you have lost a tooth, or even several teeth, then we could help with dental implants. Unlike traditional bridges or removable dentures, these are held in place with new roots. Biocompatible titanium posts are inserted into the jawbone, where they bond with the structure and have the ability to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime! We then attach restorations to them, or possibly connect a bridge or denture to several to address your tooth loss. You now have a durable and long-lasting replacement that looks and functions like natural teeth, so you feel confident when you smile to sit down for a meal!
Grafting and Sinus Lifts
What if tooth loss has severely weakened your jawbone and it cannot support dental implants? This could not only limit replacement options, but causes an older appearance. However, we could strengthen the lower portion of your smile with a grafting procedure, and then use a sinus lift to uncover new structures that can support dental implants in the upper portion. These procedures can help strengthen your smile and ensure you can support new teeth for decades to come!
If you have any questions about how we approach oral surgery, then please reach out to our team today.
Celina Family Dentistry Offers Oral Surgery!
We want to help protect smiles with oral surgery. To learn more about our approach to oral surgery, then please call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today.
