Safe & Gentle Tooth Extractions
At One Smile Dental Care, our primary goal is always to preserve your natural teeth. However, there are circumstances where saving a tooth is not possible or not recommended for your overall oral health. In these cases, we perform extractions with the utmost gentleness, care, and sterilization.
Reasons for Tooth Extraction:
- Severe Decay or Infection: When decay reaches deep into the tooth and cannot be repaired with a root canal.
- Advanced Gum Disease: When periodontitis has caused significant bone loss, making the tooth loose and unsupported.
- Impacted Wisdom Teeth: Wisdom teeth (third molars) often fail to erupt properly, becoming trapped in the bone or gums, which causes pain, swelling, and damage to adjacent molars.
- Orthodontic Crowding: Sometimes, teeth must be removed to create space for braces or aligners to align the remaining teeth.
- Fractured Teeth: Vertically cracked teeth or fractures that extend deep below the gum line cannot be restored and must be removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, which completely numbs the area. You will feel some pressure as the tooth is gently rocked loose, but no pain.
Initial healing takes about 7 to 10 days. The socket will gradually fill with bone and tissue over the next few months. We provide comprehensive post-op instructions to ensure rapid, complication-free healing.
Except for wisdom teeth or extractions done for orthodontic reasons, we strongly recommend replacing missing teeth with a dental implant or bridge to prevent neighboring teeth from shifting and causing bite problems.
Key Benefits
- Stops infection from spreading to other teeth or into the bloodstream
- Alleviates severe pain caused by non-restorable decay or fractures
- Relieves pressure and pain caused by impacted wisdom teeth
- Creates necessary space for successful orthodontic alignment
- Carefully performed to minimize disruption to surrounding bone
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