See How We Approach Oral Surgery
A number of patients who have pain issues when we see them may have a situation that requires a tooth removal. And if it’s necessary, it has to be done, there are no other good alternatives, then that’s one of the procedures that we would utilize here. We talk about wiggling teeth out. We do our best to wiggle teeth out, and not use any other words that are more scary. We have sufficient capabilities here to diagnose well, to do excellent anesthesia to keep things comfortable during that process. And again, to allay anxiety, we might utilize nitrous oxide or a anxiety-reducing drug to assist with a person who’s kind of hyper and feeling very uncomfortable, but it’s a routine procedure. We’ll also add to that extraction or tooth removal, or wiggling out process different ways of trying to speed healing. We utilize a holistic practice, ozone, for treatment of that infected socket or damaged socket area for speed of healing. We disinfect it cleanly. We often use PRF, platelet-rich fibrin, which is a blood-derived product from your own blood. We utilize the characteristics and products available from the blood to form something that will allow us to fill the opening where the tooth root was initially, where the socket is now, so that it can heal quickly, and bone will grow and develop, and fill that spot up.
Well, often when a tooth has to be removed, it was initially prompted by pain. Now, pain is not the best reason to choose dental treatment. So, what we would like to do, after something has been taken care of, and has been solved for the short term to deal with the pain issue, is to come back and do a big-picture-look at everything else that’s going on, so we can avoid those painful instances and losing more teeth. So, the goal would be to do information gathering, take photographs, have you understand as a patient exactly what’s going on that led to that problem that caused the pain that you’d probably like to avoid in the future. That plan or that action plan that we can put together will help you get on a good steady footing, heal up the things that need to be healed up, structurally support things that need to be structurally supported, so you can have a healthy smile and strong teeth, so that you have a more comfortable life as a result.